With picket lines dwindling and support from Canada Post workers for their national strike fading, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers blinked last night, downgrading the walkout to a series of rotating regional strikes.

This week, the union met with public works minister Joël Lightbound hoping to convince him to roll back some of the restructuring he OK’d for the Crown corporation in late September, which included an end to home delivery and the shuttering of some rural post offices — a flashpoint for the strike.

It doesn’t appear to have worked.

CUPW didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the results of their Wednesday night meeting.

But late Thursday, the union posted on its website that it was moving from a national strike to rotating regional strikes as of Satur

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