Most of you have probably received warning of about the possibility of a postal strike from your utilities, banks and credit card companies, so I thought I’d post some information on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers<\/a> have called a strike on May 22nd, 2025 as they negotiate with Canada Post<\/a>, who have paused the negotiations on May 13th, 2025 according to a blog entry<\/a> on the Union’s official site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, Canada Post<\/strong> is posting hundreds of millions in losses every quarter and are considering closing some post offices, reducing door to door service and implementing more community mailboxes. And the Union would rather introduce banking services through the postal offices<\/a>, which would help the smaller rural communities that have lost their banks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I agree that they should automatically start providing low fee banking and ATM services to these communities and possibly extend their mandate to provide Wi-Fi services to the community surrounding these post offices, from satellite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n