Canada Post Job Action and Laboratory Reports

Despite the increasing use of electronic means of reporting laboratory results, there remain a significant number of clinicians to whom reports are sent via ground mail using Canada Post. I note with interest that during the possible strike by CUPW, Old Age Security pension cheques, deemed 'essential' (agreed), will continue to be delivered by Canada Post (presumably by management personnel). I submit that the timely delivery of lab reports is at least as important as Old Age Security cheques insofar as the care of innumerable Canadian patients depends upon these results. I suggest that all Canadian laboratories, public and private, lobby the federal minister responsible for Canada Post to include lab results in the service which will continue uninterrupted in the event of a strike by CUPW.