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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/world/canada/canada-post-strike-fort-simpson.html
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Canada DISPATCH
A strike, and growing prospects of drastic cuts to the state-owned postal service, make life very hard for Canada’s remote communities.
Photographs by Pat Kane
Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Pat Kane reported from Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories.
Oct. 4, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET
A week into a strike by postal workers in Canada, a sense of disconnection was setting in at the village of Fort Simpson, in the Far North of Canada.
Many Canadian urban dwellers, with access to several other delivery options, have mostly shrugged off the strike that began on Sept. 25 and are unfazed by the prospect that Canada Post, the long-ailing, government-owned postal service, could be radically shrunk.
But for communities like Fort Simpson, the postal service is essential, and for a lot more than just letters.
Medication, spare parts and business supplies all arrive by mail delivered only by Canada Post, brought in by truck and plane, weather permitting — and, sometimes, the weather does not permit.
At the small local post office, 860 postal boxes hold everyone’s mail, and residents make their way there to collect larger parcels and send their own.
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The map locates Fort Simpson, in Northwest Territories, Canada.
ALASKA
CANADA
U.S.
Yellowknife
Sambaa K’e
ALBERTA
200 miles
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