@dinomitesales wrote:
I turned Canada Post shipping back on last week because I wasn't selling anything with UPS.
It's a risk. I've acknowledged that. I think there's a fairly low risk of the mail stopping entirely. The union has stated that they won't escalate their strike any more than it already is (overtime ban). The only risk is Canada Post locking them out, but if it hasn't happened yet I doubt it's going to happen. They're back at the bargaining table - this is going to end up going to arbitration and if that happens then they can't strike/lockout anyway.
I turned my eBay.ca store back on a few days ago as well. We've been reading the updates in the forum and I discussed them with my partner and he said that although a strike is possible, it doesn't seem as imminent as I'm thinking it would be, and likely packages shipped now should be delivered if shipped with Expedited Lite (that's what I'm trying to do as much as possible). We discussed that there are only a few sales a week on this account and for the two or three that might be stuck in transit we could manage turning the store off quickly if there's a strike notice (and then keeping customers informed).
On the dot com store I have, the shipping rates are designed to work with Stallion and USPS (even for postcards and small items), so that's how I'm shipping everything out of there and customers are paying appropriate shipping rates for that.
I don't imagine I'd sell anything with UPS shipping so I'm not even bothering with that.
C.
