With the Christmas mailing season upon us, Canadians are once again reckoning with the bleak future of traditional mail, and familiar troubles of Canada’s most troubled Crown corporation. After Canada Post’s annual meeting this week revealed it is running an operating loss of something like $5 million a day, the National Post explains where things stand in national mail delivery, and where they might be going.

What is happening now?

Rotating strikes continue to disrupt mail service. This week on Thursday, for example, mail was not being processed at five sites in Ontario: Georgetown, Orangeville, Oshawa, Scarborough, and a delivery centre in Etobicoke.

Meanwhile, federal mediators are facilitating negotiations between Canada Post management and its largest union, the Canadian Union of P

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