A Canada Post strike that has stopped mail delivery across the country has the small business community scrambling as their busiest selling season gets underway.
Since 55,000 workers at the Crown corporation responsible for ferrying mail went on strike Friday over fair wages and safer working conditions, businesses have been frantically searching for alternative ways to get orders to customers in a timely and affordable fashion.
The country’s smallest companies say the longer the strike goes on, the more damage it will cause.
“It is a scramble and a little devastating,” said Jessica Duffield, owner of Wishes & Whatchamacallits, a small business selling pop-culture inspired products.
“Do you pause your shop and lose all of your momentum or do you try and make it work?”
When the strike began, Wishes & Whatchamacallits had about 40 …