Postal delivery down to three times a week

If you haven’t felt the effects of the postal strike yet, you soon will.

As of Monday, Canada Post is reducing mail delivery to three days a week as rotating strikes hit seven provinces.
Niagara Falls is one of those communities hit with a walkout.
Denis Lemelin, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is accusing Canada Post of trying to force a full-scale national strike, and calls the post office’s reduction of urban mail delivery a partial lock-out – and unnecessary.
“The last 10 days we went on strike, overall we only affected 30 percent of Canadians. What Canada post wants to do with one day will affect more than what we did in the last 10 days.”
CUPW has offered to stop rotating strikes if Canada Post reinstates the expired collective agreement — but that’s been rejected.
Lemelin says the Crown corporation is refusing to negotiate because it wants the federal government to issue a back-to-work order.
Canada Post cut back mail delivery because it says there has been a drastic reduction in volume.