Ottawa customers turning to couriers to get holiday packages shipped as Canada Post strike continues

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The ongoing postal workers strike has some people turning to other delivery companies to get their holiday packages sent to loved ones in time for Christmas.

“It has been a wild couple of weeks,” jokes Alok Ahuja, CEO and co-found of Trexity, an Ottawa-based delivery company. “It has been extremely eye-opening.”

Trexity started with local-same day delivery in Ottawa and has since expanded into major cities across Canada.

Since the start of Canada Post strike, Trexity’s business has been booming. “We’re seeing a 40 per cent increase in deliveries on a daily basis, on top of the holiday rush that we already forecast at the beginning of the year,” say Ahuja.

The strike is about to enter its fourth week with no end in sight. That has many turning to alternative shipping methods for the holidays and opening up new business opportunities for small businesses. “I see a huge opportunity for us as a company and yes, this has helped us for sure, but we were going to scale and we will continue to scale,” says Ahuja. “Now, we’ll just do it a little bit faster than we had anticipated.”

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