Overview
- Canada Post has halted normal processing and delivery nationwide with some post offices closed, while pension and social‑assistance cheques continue and no new mail is being accepted.
- The government accepted an industrial inquiry’s recommendations, including converting roughly four million addresses to community mailboxes over the next decade, a shift it projects will save about C$400 million annually.
- Letter delivery standards will be relaxed to three to seven days and non‑urgent mail will move by ground instead of air, with estimated savings of about C$20 million per year.
- The moratorium on rural post‑office closures is lifted and Canada Post has 45 days to present how it will implement the changes, as Ottawa also reviews management restructuring and faster stamp‑rate adjustments.
- CUPW calls the measures a direct attack and seeks a rollback and a full public mandate review, while Canada Post cites deep losses exceeding C$5 billion since 2018, a C$407 million Q2 2025 loss and roughly C$10 million in daily losses.