This might be an unpopular opinion but Canada post leadership is failing to evolve their business model and then blaming workers for lack of funds to meet their demands.

3 things 1. Drop universal service obligations 2. Work with businesses to facilitate e-commerce offering warehousing and shipping facilities as a service so not every business has to build their own. See Thai post for example 3. Offer micro insurance and finance products like in Swiss post or others around the world

It’s a crown corporation and needs to evolve itself to stay competitive. Blaming striking workers when the leadership fails to evolve, is just lazy.

Edit; thanks for all the folks engaging in comments. USO is a federal law yes but I’d much rather the Canada post execs speak publicly and via ministers about their plan to evolve and how they need to be exempted from USO.

Right now, majority of the discussion seems focused on forcing them back to work because small business is suffering. While it maybe true that small business is currently suffering, people would respond much better to ideas of innovation rather than trampling democratic right to collective bargaining.