For the previous 40 years, Canada Put up says it has been serving to ship hundreds of thousands of letters from all the nice little ladies and boys to Santa Claus.
Nonetheless, the Crown company says this 12 months’s nationwide postal strike will make it tough to maintain up with the association.
“(The Canadian Union of Postal Staff) has shut down the postal service with a nationwide strike, and consequently, we’re unable to get mail to and from Santa within the North Pole,” Canada Put up spokesperson Lisa Liu instructed CTV Information in an e mail on Wednesday.
Liu mentioned Canada Put up sometimes begins receiving letters destined for the North Pole in mid-to-late November, making the timing of the strike a problem for all of its Christmas operations.
“It’s our hope that postal operations can resume as rapidly as potential at this important time for purchasers,” Liu mentioned.
“When operations do resume, we’ll assist Santa by delivering a response to each letter despatched to him this 12 months.”
About 55,000 members of CUPW have been on strike since Nov. 15, shutting down operations and halting deliveries of mail and parcels.
In the newest replace to strike negotiations, officers mentioned progress was being made on some smaller points, however there’s “nonetheless a variety of floor to cowl.”
“After 12 months of discussions, the employer lastly started to maneuver on the urgent points. Resolving these points may pave the best way to agreements,” union president Jan Simpson mentioned in an replace to members Tuesday.
“The city unit will discover out if there’s motion on their facet.”
Canada Put up staff picket outdoors a sorting plant in Montreal on Nov.15, 2024. (Graham Hughes / The Canadian Press)
In response to a current Leger ballot, 57 per cent of Canadians are in favour of the federal authorities stepping in to finish the strike. Twenty-one per cent mentioned Ottawa ought to let negotiations proceed whereas 22 per cent mentioned they did not know.
Final Friday, Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon dominated out any early federal intervention to finish the labour dispute.
In the identical ballot, 61 per cent of Canadians have been frightened about disruptions to mail companies and 57 per cent have been involved over supply delays over the vacation season.
Thousands and thousands of Santa letters delivered annually
In 2023, Canada Put up helped Santa Claus by delivering 1.4 million letters from world wide.
“It is a massive effort and an amazing supply of pleasure for everybody at Canada Put up,” Liu mentioned.
The service often handles between 1.2 and 1.5 million letters yearly and has delivered replies for greater than 45 million letters since its inception.
(With recordsdata from the Canadian Press)
