Canada Post Workers Strike Over Door-to-Door Delivery Cuts

Canada Post Workers Strike Over Door-to-Door Delivery Cuts
Above: CUPW members and supporters during a Canada Post strike in Montreal on Sept. 26, 2025. Image copyright: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Spin

Government-critical narrative

Canada Post workers face a devastating attack on public service as the government secretly implements massive cuts without consultation. These changes gut door-to-door delivery for 4 million addresses, eliminate rural post office protections and slash delivery standards — all while ignoring customer demands for parcel delivery to the door. The government completely rejected revenue diversification, choosing job-killing cuts over expanding services that could actually save the postal system.

Pro-government narrative

Canada Post desperately needs these reforms to survive its existential crisis, as it loses $10 million daily with letter volume plummeting from 5.5 billion to 2 billion over the past two decades. Converting to community mailboxes will save $400 million annually, while 77% of Canadians already use them successfully. Without these changes, taxpayers will face endless billion-dollar bailouts for a service that has become financially obsolete in the digital age.


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