Canada Post employees will be in a strike position on Friday, threatening to suspend its mail and parcel delivery across the country. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 55,000 of the service's employees, says if there is no progress on a new collective agreement, its members will walk off the job.

If that happens, no new mail will be accepted and any items already in the system will be held until the strike is over. Here are the facts on why it's so bad.

Here we go again

You could be forgiven for asking why we're facing a strike when we just had one in November and December that lasted 32 days and deeply disrupted everything from Christmas gifts to passport delivery.

The reason is that that labour dispute was never resolved. After it dragged on for a month with no p

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