If you still haven’t received expected parcels or mail delayed by the recent postal strike, there could be a good reason.

According to CUP-W spokesman Craig Dyer, a 54-foot trailer-load of parcels and mail was recently “found” at a post office on the west coast of the island.

“This could be thousands and thousands of parcels,” Dyer told VOCM Open Line with Paddy Daly. “That was there before Christmas. We’re talking about a backlog, but how can you manage a backlog if the corporation is not managing it properly?”

Dyer says while Canada Post boasts that delivery is back to normal and backlogs are being addressed, that’s not what workers are experiencing.

“Members are working their hardest,” says Dyer, “but we’re not allowed to do our jobs to the fullest.”

Dyer says traditionally staff could work as much as they wanted, as long as they wanted, leading up to Christmas.

But he says this year the corporation imposed strike restrictions on overtime.

“They didn’t hire any additional staff,” says Dyer. “And while they’re out in the media saying that we’re addressing the backlog, they didn’t allow us to do it.”