Can you ship to Canada?

illinifan912

better get your packages out before friday at midnight or the postal workers up north go on strike.

Garabaldi

Better off not shipping to Canada.

hammered

I heard half their country is private postal service and the other half is public
Wonder which is going on strike?

e64mtd

My understanding is that the initial strike will be on a rotating basis so it will only slow the delivery of mail, not stop it completely. Also, unless I am mistaken, there is no combination of private/public mail in Canada. It's public only.

vladguerrero

All Canada Post Unionized employee activity would cease, so it doesn't matter if you get it out before Friday, it will sit in a distribution center before until the labour dispute is settled. Everything but Gov't assitance checks will not be delivered. Not sure where you guys are getting half private/public stuff but it's irrelevant. Mail transport (from DC to DC) is sub contracted but they only deliver mail from one set of Canada Post employees to the next group of Canada Post Employees, they having nothing to do with customer deliveries, so if all the Canada Post employees are on strike they will sit idle. It really could be a huge disaster.

e64mtd

Here's the information you need to know, just so there's no misinformation floating around:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/06/02/f-postal-strike-tips.html

vladguerrero

The postal worker strike means Canada Post will cease nearly all mail delivery, with the exception of monthly social assistance payments such as government pension cheques, veteran's cheques, as well as welfare and child benefit cheques.

Could the strike still be avoided? Canada Post says it is not contemplating locking out its workers at this time and hopes the union will continue negotiations past a strike deadline. The union says it has historically reached deals very close to the deadline. What does the union want? The union, which represents close to 50,000 letter carriers and other workers, is asking for a four-year contract with wage increases of 3.3 per cent in the first year and 2.75 per cent in years two and three. Sick leave and pensions are also issues. The average starting wage for postal workers is $23 an hour.

...well if the average wage is only $23/hr I can see why they want to get their strike on

EDIT: Notice that's also "starting" wage.

grote15

$23/hr equates to about 45K a year which is modest at best at least here in NY...