That's right, Canada Post is not delivering any mail.
It's been six days now -- no mail. At first it didn't seem that much of a problem, postal service hasn't been what it used to be for several years now. Yet, as time continues and the postal service remains closed, it is becoming a big deal.
News reports that 85,000 people were expecting passports to arrive in the mail. Wow! Sounds like people were really planning to travel this winter (snowbirds) as the cold weather descends on Canada. Will they have to give up their trip to the sunny south and pay large carbon taxes, like the rest of us, in order to keep their houses warm.
Hey-- Christmas is just a little over a month away. No cards, no mail orders delivered, at least not by Canada Post. In larger communities people can turn to other transport companies BUT A lot of those transport companies tend to offer only very limited service to smaller rural communities.
Charity organizations, depend to a large extent, on people sending their donations in order to run their programs of feeding and sheltering disadvantaged citizens. Needed now that cold weather (and Christmas) is coming.
Small businesses that depend on online sales, especially in the two months prior to Christmas, are expecting huge loss of sales.
And will the mail that was already in the system when the strike began, ever get pulled out of storage and delivered?
Well, people are getting worried. But it's not the end of the world.
Just a small worry, in the larger picture of world wide worries concerning the future.
