I vaguely remember the last strike (1998 according to dragonmedly) so really 13 years isn’t bad. We’ve had more teacher and other union strikes here than postal strikes. (AirCanada is on strike too…) I stopped even thinking about buying online when I heard there was the possibility but some important paperwork, the time sensitive stuff, was sent to me and is now stuck in the system somewhere… :~
Even with the strike (the posties have a couple of good complaints health and safety wise) I would rather go Canada Post because they are sooooo much cheaper. The last item I sent was either $45 via Canada Post or $100ish via any of the courier services and it would only take 2 days longer to get there.