By Gazette Staff
October 9th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
New books for these shelves don’t arrive by Canada Post. Libraries created their own delivery service.
What impact is the postal strike having on the delivery of books and magazine subscriptions having on the Burlington Public Library.
Not that much.
Media is reporting that “…the strategy is to see if the pressure that comes from not being paid starts to change the minds of the union and its members.
“It’s about getting the union to give up or to widen the divisions inside the union around taking a settlement now to try to contain the damage versus staying out and fighting for something that may never come.”
The federal government gave the union 45 days to come back with what they think a restructuring of the postal service could look like.
Staff at the library explained that libraries across the province have created a service that has book publishers and their distributors delivering directly to the libraries – Canada Post is not part of that set up.
Magazine subscriptions are another matter. The Burlington Library system has subscriptions to 140 magazines, and they arrive by mail.
The library receives approximately 150-200 books per month through inter-library loans, which are impacted by the strike.
The book suppliers are not impacted by the Canada Post strike – lots of new books are still coming weekly.
Delivery of BPL materials between branches is not affected as these deliveries are made by Library staff.
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