Shipping Updates - CUPW Strike

• Posted on 18 November 2024
• By Shreddy
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UPDATE 26 Sept 2025

This post is once again relevant! It is preserved below in its original format from 18 Nov 2024.

For the present day striking conditions, please read CUPW's official message here: https://www.cupw.ca/en/public-post-office-under-attack

Your shipments WILL be affected as this is a nation-wide strike. For local shipments, select pickup for fastest and easiest turnaround. We will also be using Send It Courier for many local shipments, something we have done even without strike conditions.

We once again wish CUPW success in their bargaining.

Original Post 18 Nov 2024

Hey pals,

As many of you may already know, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is presently striking! This means that non-local shipping will be delayed. If you’re local, selecting in-store pickup or shipping locally will be the quickest ways to get your orders.

Local deliveries are handled by Send It Courier, and orders within the delivery zone will still arrive as scheduled! Here are their operating boundaries:

Send It will also deliver to zones outside this range, for an additional fee. Please drop us a line if you want to discuss this.

As for the strike, here are the unresolved issues that CUPW, both the Rural Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMCs) and Urban Operations (UPO) divisions, are striking to resolve:

Common

• Wage increases in line with inflation
• COLA payments to be rolled into the basic wage rate
• Increase STDP and Injury on Duty payments
• Add paid medical days to paid personal days, and allow medical days to be banked
• Significant improvements to our group benefits plans, including increased coverage for health specialists, fertility treatment, gender-affirming care, vision care, and more
• Precautionary cessation of work for pregnant and breastfeeding employees
• Improved protections against technological change
• Improved protections against harassment
• No contracting out

Rural Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC)

• Job security rights in line with the Urban agreement
• Hourly rate system with appropriate time values, Union involvement, and safeguards against CPC’s unilateral change
• A validation process to ensure time values are accurate
• Maximizing and maintaining 8-hour routes
• Corporate vehicle for all RSMCs
• Improved rights for On Call Relief Employees (OCREs)
• Coverage of all absences
• Paid meal and rest period rights
• RSMC involvement in service expansion projects

 Urban Operations (UPO)

• The full elimination of Separate Sort from Delivery (SSD)
• Time to prepare and deliver Neighbourhood Mail and changes to address route length and overburdening
• Improved staffing provisions, including creation of relief positions, and changes to address local staffing issues
• Improved rights for Temporary employees
• Paid meal and rest periods for workers working 5 hours or more
• Contract in cleaning, highway services, Combined Urban Services, and other work CUPW members can perform
• Service expansion projects, including postal banking, senior and other check ins, and an e-commerce platform

We wish CUPW success in their bargaining.

You can find negotiation updates at CUPW.ca.

If there is anything you wish to discuss with regards to the status of your order, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us by sending an email to ucycle(at)ucycle.com.

If you have placed an order for shipping outside of the local delivery zone, and do not want to wait for shipping, you can also send us an email. We will do our best to ensure we can arrive at a mutually satisfactory arrangement.