Small businesses and non-profit organizations say the halt of neighbourhood mailing during the ongoing labour dispute between Canada Post and its unionized postal workers is hurting them.

Twenty-eight thousand brochures highlighting the Firehall Arts Centre’s 2025-2026 season are ready to be delivered to neighhourhoods within walking distance of the Downtown Eastside theatre, but are instead sitting in limbo at Honeycomb Direct Mail.

“If those ones aren’t moved, we end up having to destroy them because there’s no way we can afford FedEx or another mailing service,” artistic producer Donna Spencer told Global News.

In a bid to force the national mail carrier back to the negotiating table amid stalled contract talks, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers stopped delivering business f

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