Windsor businesses affected by Canada Post strike [Video]

While small businesses in Windsor are relieved to see Canada Post moving again, many are still feeling the sting of the four-week work stoppage.

Kat Pasquach, owner of Culture Shock Bead Co., said the strike’s impact on her business has been severe.

“I was looking at the sales and I was actually astonished to see they’re down 61 per cent,” she said. “It was a massive hit.”

Pasquach’s Windsor-based business, which supplies beads and craft materials largely to rural and Indigenous communities across Canada, saw its operations crippled by the strike.

“They don’t have access to courier service. It was as simple as that,” she said. “We weren’t able to get shipments to them.”

Even when a courier could have come through, Pasquach said price surges fueled by the strike turned her customers off the option.

“I got a quote for Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It was $50 approximately,” she detailed. …