No mail --or pot --delivery for Keswick, Newmarket, Aurora, King Nov. 6

Rotating postal strike hits Newmarket distribution centre, stopping mail delivery

Yorkregion.com
November 7, 2018
Tim Kelly

There won’t be any Canada Post deliveries coming to a home near you Nov. 6 in Newmarket, Aurora, King Township, Keswick and Kleinburg.

That’s because employees at the Newmarket post office and distribution centre are on strike, with picketers walking along the Mulock Drive sidewalk and set up in the parking lot.

Asked if those who ordered marijuana from the government-run Ontario Cannabis Store website would get a delivery the day of the strike, postal worker union spokesperson Joseph Trottier said, "not today, you won’t".

"Absolutely not," confirmed Crystal De Luca, president of Newmarket Local 573 of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

Trottier said Bradford, Beaton, Tottenham, Pefferlaw and Uxbridge, among other locales, are also impacted by not having mail service Nov. 6. He said the distribution centre impacts about 200,000 to 300,000 addresses in the surrounding area.

"Nobody’s getting mail," said De Luca.

It’s not known if the rotating strike will continue at the Newmarket centre Nov. 7.

“We’re just going day by day,” said De Luca.

About 120 employees work at the Mulock address. They are among 50,000 unionized urban, rural and suburban Canada Post employees who are part of rotating strikes that have been going on across the country for the past two weeks.

Trottier and De Luca said the union's issues include safety, wages and overtime, adding they’ve been without a contract since February.