The Confederation of Greek Workers and the Association of Civil Servants have announced a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, 14 October 2025.

This action will affect the collection and delivery of both international and domestic mail.

Further to EmIS 224/2025, the designated operator of Canada, Canada Post, wishes to inform Union member countries and their designated operators that it has welcomed back employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), with effect from 11 October 2025, as the union moves from a full national strike to rotating strikes. To ensure a safe and orderly resumption of national operations, Canada Post invites designated operators to resume sending mail to Canada from 13 October 2025. Despite the resumption of postal services, there will still be some uncertainty and instability owing to the union’s decision to conduct rotating strikes. Customers should expect delays and occasional interruptions to service during the rotating strikes, as Canada Post processes the backlog and stabilizes its operations. Canada Post will employ its best efforts to restore the normal flow of mail items through its network as soon as possible.

Further to EER 47, the designated operator of Canada, Canada Post, wishes to inform countries and their designated operators that Canada Post will welcome back employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) on October 11th 2025, as the union moves from a full, national strike to rotating strikes. To ensure a safe and orderly restart of our national operations, Canada Post invites designated operators to resume sending mail to Canada no earlier than Monday October 13th. While postal services will resume next week, uncertainty and instability in the postal service will continue with the union’s decision to conduct rotating strikes. Customers should expect delays and occasional interruptions during the rotating strikes, as Canada Post processes the backlog and stabilizes its operations, with best efforts to resume the flow of items through our network.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is currently experiencing a system outage that is causing significant delays for carriers at all land and air ports of entry.
CBSA has confirmed it has identified the root cause and is actively working toward a resolution, though no estimated timeline for full restoration has been shared at this time.

In the interim, carriers approaching the border are encouraged to follow CBSA’s System Outage Contingency Plan and carry paper copies of all required documentation to avoid further disruption.

Following on from our earlier communication:

We have full strike routing contingency in place on our DDP service where we’ve pulled as much volume out of the CPC network as possible, however Canada Post labels will still generate for areas alternative carriers cannot service (PO Boxes and rural areas), these shipments will be held.

Due to the national strike by the Canadian Union of postal workers, Canada Post have taken the decision to embargo Mail with immediate effect.

This will affect all postal services MaxiPak scan DDU, MiniPak Scan DDU and any untracked mail (PG & E format). DDP services are not affected.
Any volume we have received will be held and processed when Canada Post lifts the embargo.

Please contact your Account Manager who will be happy to help you access our DDP Canada services during this strike period and beyond.