Try walking a day in a postal worker’s shoes

Re Canada Post hit by rotating strike in GTA as businesses call for quick end to walkouts

If Canadians had any idea how tough it is being a postie, they’d be absolutely horrified at the workload, the working conditions, the daily demands, the inadequate cheap equipment and the daily physical exhaustion worsened by all weather conditions.

The average postie walks 20 kilometres every day lugging mail AND parcels AND junk mail AND registered letters AND at least 25 China packets, all destined for as many as 500 residences or businesses.

All this has to be done in eight hours AND local mail boxes and post offices have to be cleared by 5 p.m. and the mail returned by 6 or there’s hell to pay.

In the winter, they often have to go back out, strap on a headlight and finish their walks in the dark, in knee-deep snow.

The workday is not over until it’s all done.

CUPW not only deserves our complete support, they are due an apology!

Go ahead and apply for the job — Canada Post is always hiring because most recruits don’t last a month.

The Canadian people are and always have been ingrates who don’t appreciate what they have and expect everything to be done for them for free.

Now, they’re hostile to the very workers who serve them and seek to preserve the last government service provided to them at no cost.

Very sad; but not in the least surprising. Frank MacKay, Scarborough