May 22 Canada Post Strike & Solutions for shipping within Canada

[sin-n-dex]

A few days ago I got a message from Canada Post. They said the strike could happen as early as May 22, and there's no mechanism in place to prevent that from happening yet (because there's no settlement as of yet).

I got a message from Stallion today that they partnered with Dragonfly and they specifically mentioned this was done in time for the strike so we'd have options to ship within Canada.

Anyone know anything about Dragonfly? I only sent one Dragonfly shipment, to Australia, a while ago. Everything went fine.

Supposedly Dragonfly is good for 90% of Canadian addresses (I'm assuming that if you have a PO Box you're out of luck on that, perhaps that's the 10% that it doesn't work for).

It kind of irritates me that we'll soon be dealing with a Canada Post strike when we have enough problems to deal with in regards to tariffs. The tariffs could ruin us, and we might not be able to ship to the US anymore. We don't need a CP strike to axe our shipping to the rest of the world.

C.

[ypdc_dennis]

Dragonfly in Canada is just a rebranding of Intelcom operations outside of Quebec (still called Intelcom in Quebec).  They started the renaming process for Canada last year.

The Dragonfly brand began in 2021 when Intelcom opened a subsidiary in Australia.

[recped]

I got a chuckle out of this message.

They make it sound like a new service but Stallion has offered intelcom for quite a while.

Dragonfly poped up for me last week when I shipped an order to Australia via PostNL but the label that printed out was for Dragonfly. This is similar to the UK PostNL labels which are actually Royal Mail labels.

It may have been this way for a while, in the past I always used APC to Australia, PostNL always being a bit more expensive.

[silverpinups]

Basically, June and July are my worst months for selling collectibles so a potential strike during that time period won't be as stressful as it was in mid Nov/24-Dec/24. 

[fergua3]

Much better than another Christmas strike but i doubt the union will go no strike in May.  Slow time of year so not very painful for consumers and with all the tariff problems a postal strike is the last thing this country needs.  Besides there will be a fully functioning gov't in place by then and neither the Liberals or Conservatives will have much appetite or tolerence for a strike.

[recped]

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@fergua3 wrote:

Much better than another Christmas strike but i doubt the union will go no strike in May.  Slow time of year so not very painful for consumers and with all the tariff problems a postal strike is the last thing this country needs.  Besides there will be a fully functioning gov't in place by then and neither the Liberals or Conservatives will have much appetite or tolerence for a strike.

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I'm inclined to agree, with a new Government in place that is likely to remain in power for the next 4 - 5 years no matter which party holds the power the hesitation to pass back to work legislation for political reasons will no longer exist.

With the sharp decline of the NDP, even a minority government might no longer be dependent on the NDP to pass legislation.

I don't like to make election predictions but I do think it's likely we will have a majority government, perhaps a thin majority but one or the other of Conservatives and Liberals will hold the power.

[sapphyres-designer-jewellery]

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@recped wrote:

I got a chuckle out of this message.

They make it sound like a new service but Stallion has offered intelcom for quite a while.

Dragonfly poped up for me last week when I shipped an order to Australia via PostNL but the label that printed out was for Dragonfly. This is similar to the UK PostNL labels which are actually Royal Mail labels.

It may have been this way for a while, in the past I always used APC to Australia, PostNL always being a bit more expensive.

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I got that too, printed a label for Australia and got Dragonfly (this was a month or so ago when APC was offline, then it came back, and now it's gone). I liked APC because I could mail a coin to Australia for around $12 CAD. My last package to Australia with NL Post (and I have no idea who the carrier was on the label) ended up being $16 CAD. It was for 8oz.

C.

[sapphyres-designer-jewellery]

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@fergua3 wrote:

Much better than another Christmas strike but i doubt the union will go no strike in May.  Slow time of year so not very painful for consumers and with all the tariff problems a postal strike is the last thing this country needs.  Besides there will be a fully functioning gov't in place by then and neither the Liberals or Conservatives will have much appetite or tolerence for a strike.

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One can hope. I'm going to take advantage of the other services Stallion offers if there is a strike (to try and keep shipping within Canada). It won't help for PO boxes, but I did find that the Canadians were very reasonable waiting for their packages during the last strike. I just kept tabs on those packages and kept the customers informed, seemed to help.

C.