A Canada Post employee is pictured near their sorting facility in Richmond, B.C, on Nov. 14, 2024.
With Canada Post workers still on strike, some small businesses in southern Ontario say they’re scrambling to find ways to keep deliveries running as they approach the busy holiday season.With the holiday season approaching, small business owners in Ontario are trying to keep their deliveries running in the midst of a Canada Post strike that has shutdown nationwide postal service.
That's a huge problem for Ashleigh Richer and her husband, who run a gift shop in Cannington, Ont. and a business selling wholesale Christmas ornaments to shops across North America"The small businesses that are also buying from us, they need to have them in their stores to sell them as well." For now, Richer said they'll have to drive an hour away to Pickering to ship orders through Chit Chat, which provides shipping services for small businesses.The strike has forced Kim Dowds, a Peterborough-based small business owner who sells items from estate sales online, to pivot as well.
She said she knows some other small business owners in rural or remote areas who will have to put deliveries on hold entirely.
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