DHL Express Canada says it has taken steps to minimize any disruption from a lockout and strike over a contract dispute with union workers.
Canada Post and its unionized letter carriers are negotiating again on a collective bargaining agreement, but their inability to resolve differences is compounding problems at the national mail carrier.
Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are not giving an inch in their fight over a labor contract, with Canada Post showing frustration with union leadership and opposing its call for binding arbitration.
Canada Post, in a sign it has lost patience with leadership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, has asked the Canadian government to put its latest contract offer to employees for a vote.
DHL Express workers say they are willing to walk off the job in less than two weeks if a new labor contract isn’t in place by then.
The postal workers union is disparaging what Canada Post called an enhanced offer on Wednesday as the sides struggle to finalize a labor agreement after nearly 18 months of negotiations.
Canada Post’s financial troubles have been compounded by the ongoing labor dispute and the inability to generate more revenue from parcel delivery.
Veho, a tech-enabled parcel courier, is testing a delivery robot that can walk, climb and roll to customer doorsteps in cityscapes.
Purolator’s airfreight partner in western Canada is modifying turboprop aircraft for parcel transport as part of a fleet modernization.
Canada Post workers backed away from going on strike, opting instead for a ban on overtime work. But the threat of a strike has already allowed competitors to take parcel business from the national post.
The CEO of Mercado Libre, the dominant e-commerce player in Latin America, has decided to turn control to one of his lieutenants and move to the board room.
The U.S. government says it moved to block a businessman and his two logistics companies from using fake postal labels to ship parcels from China to the United States.
Postal workers in Canada have threatened to go on strike Friday, which would shut down most delivery services and hurt businesses that depend on Canada Post to fulfill orders.
FedEx Corp. has announced the new leaders for less-than-truckload carrier FedEx Freight following a 2026 spinoff.
E-commerce logistics startup Stord has acquired Ware2Go from UPS.
The White House has temporarily relaxed duties on parcel imports from China that entered the country without duty prior to May 2, but efforts continue to eliminate the de minimis exemption altogether.
DHL continues to ramp up investment in the e-commerce space with a large stake in U.K.-based parcel delivery company Evri.
Amazon will outsource delivery of large packages to FedEx in a deal that should prove more profitable on a per-shipment level than shipments under the companies’ partnership that ended six years ago.
The U.S. Postal Service continues to face challenges erasing its losses.
President Trump’s instinct to place the U.S. Postal Service under the direct control of the White House is correct and would allow the agency to be reformed without interference from oversight bodies that have outlived their usefulness, says commentator Satish Jindel.
