A stack of boxes is pictured inside the warehouse of Reid's Auction in Calgary.
It's been over two weeks since a nationwide strike of Canada Post workers began. Now, with the holiday season fast approaching, a local courier — along with its much bigger competitor, Amazon — is primed to pick up the delivery slack.With a distribution network already built up across the province, Amazon is well positioned to take advantage of the Canada Post strike, says a Calgary business professor.
Deeleeo makes same-day deliveries to Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer and cities and towns in between, said Trapp.Matthew Trapp, a distributor with Calgary courier service Deeleeo, said he's noticed an uptick in business since the start of the Canada Post strike. Other delivery services with heftier networks — especially Amazon — are also benefiting from the Canada Post strike, said Hossein Piri, assistant professor at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary.
On the other hand, he said, the Canada Post strike could also have the opposite effect of the pandemic — driving some customers to do more shopping in person. "We also encourage Calgarians to shop in-store where they can. This is not just a great way to explore the city, it is an investment in the community," said the chamber's vice-president of policy and external affairs, Ruhee Ismail-Teja.
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