'I feel guilty saying it, but I could live without Canada Post,' one Ottawan in my small neighbourhood survey confessed.

Joanne Bateman recently received a letter in the mail from her insurance company in Winnipeg. It was postmarked 19 days earlier. Article content

According to Google Maps, it takes 19 days to walk from Winnipeg to Ottawa. One wonders if that is how the letter actually made it to this city. Article content

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Perhaps it’s not a surprise, then, that the 79-year-old Bateman says the ongoing labour strife between the Crown corporation and its workers won’t affect her: “Not one bit.” Canada Post, she says, is simply not important to her anymore.

Tha’s the problem the post office faces as management and the union CUPW grapple over a new c

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