As their battle to secure a new contract with Canada Post drags on, postal workers have found a new target: Liberal MPs in Toronto.
Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), along with supporters from the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, will be delivering flyers Saturday to home mailboxes in Toronto ridings held by Liberal MPs.
The top portion of the flyers uses a typeface similar to official government notices, including a small Canadian flag, and is titled “Public Notice Re: Canada Post.”
“This mailbox is scheduled to be permanently closed 25/09/2025. Your mail and parcels will no longer be delivered to your home,” the flyer reads beside a photo of the MP in whose riding the mailbox is located, along with contact information for their constituency office.
Sept. 25 is the day the federal government gave the green light for a broad restructuring of Canada Post. Hours later, CUPW went on its second national strike in under a year. That strike was subsequently turned into a regional, rotating strike on Oct. 10.
In an example provided to the Star, the flyer takes aim at Davenport MP Julie Dzerowicz. The bottom part of the flyer is titled “Davenport MP Julie Dzerowicz is permanently closing your mailbox,” and includes other sections criticizing the federal government.
Dzerowicz didn’t immediately reply to requests seeking comment.
“Are you ready to wait? Your average mail and parcel delivery time is set to double, meaning you’ll wait longer for your mail,” reads one section.
“Are you ready to walk? Your mail will now be delivered up to 500 feet away from your house — that’s longer than a football field. Rain or snow, you’ll be walking to get your mail,” reads another.
In a written statement, a spokesperson for Canada Post blasted the flyers, which come amidst a rotating strike by CUPW members.
“This flyer is misleading and will cause unnecessary stress for homeowners,” said Canada Post spokesperson Jon Hamilton. “Converting the remaining door delivery households to community mailboxes will happen over the next few years. As a neighbourhood is converted, we will engage locally and keep people informed over several months before the changeover to ensure a smooth transition.”
But people should be scared at the prospect of losing their home delivery, said organizers of the flyer campaign.
“I believe that’s the intent. This is for residents to wake up, to understand they will be losing their home delivery,” said Mark Lubinski, president of CUPW’s Toronto local. “We don’t know the timeline, it could be a year from now.”
Lubinski says people in his densely-populated west end Toronto neighbourhood don’t want to lose their home delivery.
“I don’t want my door-to-door delivery to disappear and I don’t want my neighbours’ to and they don’t either,” said Lubinski.
An organizer with the Toronto and York Region Labour Council said the flyers are justified in the wake of the federal government’s Sept. 25 announcement giving the green light to a broad restructuring of Canada Post.
“We’re sounding the alarm, and people should absolutely be scared of the changes that the Liberal government’s bringing in,” said Labour Council organizer Jack Copple. “It’s an attack on tens of thousands of Canadian jobs.”
The restructuring mandate, announced by the minister responsible for Canada Post Joël Lightbound, includes the elimination of home delivery for households which still get it, conversion to community mailboxes, as well as the closure of some rural post offices. It also increased delivery time for standard mail.
Copple said those changes run counter to the election campaign run by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal party.
“This is a time where we believe that we should be building up and expanding Canadian infrastructure to build a strong and independent Canadian economy. That was the mandate that this government was elected on,” said Copple. “They’ve been in power for less than a year now and one of the first orders of business of them has been to attack one of the oldest and most integral pieces of infrastructure which is central to the Canadian economy.”
In his September announcement, Lightbound said he’s giving the Crown corp. 45 days to come up with a plan to implement the broad restructuring, which he called a necessary step to keep Canada Post alive.
“Canada Post is now facing an existential crisis,” said Lightbound, adding that the Crown corp. has racked up more than $5 billion in losses since 2018, and is on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025. “Canadians can’t be footing an ever-growing bill year after year.”
