The owners of a Richmond restaurant say they are out $25,000 due to the Canada Post strike.

Shane Dagan, owner of the Steveston Seafood House in Richmond, said they wanted to reach out to the community with a mail campaign.

They spent $15,000 on flyers and $10,000 on pre-paid postage and delivered the material to Canada Post on Sept. 11.

Job action began at Canada Post on Sept. 12.

“We paid $10,000 in postage, prepaid postage, a further $15,000 in printing costs,” Dagan told Global News.

“So it was $25,000 in total. We hired eight new front staff, a couple of cooks. We were anticipating thousands of people to come for this campaign, and it just didn’t materialize. At the time when they announced they were suspending flyer delivery, we requested could we please take them back.

“We wou

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