If you’re looking for work in Westman, contact Canada Post because they’re anticipating hiring over 4,000 more ‘seasonal’ staff this year.
In a statement to Global News, a spokesperson for the nation’s postal agency said that another 1,400 vehicles and 2,000 parking spots would be added, besides the 4,200 more workers it was hiring. Last Christmas, they delivered more than 20-million parcels – 2.4-million on December 21st alone.
Canada Post spokesperson Valérie Chartrand also said that they would be using new ‘sortation capacity’ to help process packages coming to and from their post offices, depots and processing plants.
Purolator Inc., another shipping company Canada Post owns a majority share in, has announced that it too was hiring several thousand new employees for the holiday season. It said workers are expected to handle a record 54 million packages, a near 10% increase from last year, between the start of November and end of December.
(Global News)
