Italy 04.07.2025

Some Italian unions have confirmed a 24-hour strike, commencing at 00.01 CEST on 10 July 2025, involving handling companies.

 Non-guaranteed flights could face delays or cancellations, and airport services might be disrupted.

The strike may continue over the following days, depending on the level of strike participation.

Czech Republic 04.07.2025

The designated operator of Czechia, Česká pošta, wishes to inform Union member countries and their designated operators that, owing to an unforeseen power blackout currently affecting the entire country, all IT systems are down. As a result, EDI transmissions and customer service activities for letter-post, parcel-post and EMS items are temporarily interrupted. Česká pošta is monitoring the situation closely and will resume normal operations as soon as possible.

USA 04.07.2025

Flash flooding has hit parts of Texas, United States.

Media sources reported on July 6 that at least 51 deaths were reported in parts of Kerr County, Texas, United States, following severe flash flooding. Torrential rain caused the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in 45 minutes, leading to severe flooding across Kerr, Travis, and Kendall counties.

Reports indicate that a total of 850 people have been rescued or evacuated in the region.

Business and logistical disruptions are likely to continue till water levels recede.

Netherlands 03.07.2025

PostNL wants to inform the IPC members that we had some hick-ups in moving our airport facility at Amsterdam Schiphol airport since 27th of June 2025. This concerns the RFID gates activation and MRD installation. For the RFID-gates, reads are missed for our airport location between 27th of June and 2nd of July. Since 3rd of July the RFID-data is exchanged as usual. The MRD is not fully installed yet and did not register any MRD data since 27th of June up to now. We are working in cooperation with IPC to have the MRD up-and-running asap . We will inform you once everything is working back again as usual.

Canada 03.07.2025

Airport operations disrupted due to security threat: Media sources report that in the early hours of July 3 flight operations at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Canada were temporarily disrupted after a bomb threat was received at NAV Canada’s air traffic control tower. In total, bomb threats prompted evacuations and security lockdowns at six airports across Canada including Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL). Operations were affected for several hours on the same day, but began to return to normal.