U.S. Postal Service Suspends Accepting Mail to Canada Due to Ongoing Work Stoppage
Due to the ongoing postal strike by Canadian mail workers, the U.S. Postal Service said it suspended accepting most mail bound for Canada over the weekend.
In a statement, the USPS said it was suspending acceptance of mail effective Saturday, with the exception of Global Express Guaranteed shipments.
“As a convenience to our customers and to minimize service disruptions, we arranged to accept mail destined for Canada as long as possible,” said Giselle Valera, vice president of the U.S. Postal Service’s global business unit.
“We will continue to closely monitor the strike situation, and once Canada Post resumes operations, the U.S. Postal Service will again begin accepting mail for Canada. We also will then resume processing any Canadian-destined mail currently held in our network,” she said in a statement.
The lockout began earlier this month after an unresolved dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, after union members refused to work for 24-hour periods in Montreal and Toronto, the country’s two largest cities.
Canada Post’s service already had been reduced to three days a week in most areas before the June 14 lockout announcement.
