'Great news!': Giant Canada Post customer responds to tentative deal

Veseys Seeds is now confident Canada Post will get its tens of thousands of parcels out during the upcoming fall bulb season.

"I'm quite delighted by it," John Barrett, director of sales, marketing and development at P.E.I.'sVeseys Seeds, told CBC News.

"We're just about to enter into a very, very heavy shipping season here with our fall bulb items and, of course we've got some massive mailings coming up in the fall. That's great news."

In the event of strike or lockout, Barrett was looking at spending two to three times as much to get those fall bulbs delivered by courier.

No alternative for some deliveries

Delivery of the bulbs would have been possible but expensive for Veseys, but delivering catalogues would not have been possible at all, because there is no alternative service for addressed admail.

"Those catalogues would have just sat idle on a printing company's floor until such time as the dispute had been resolved," said Barrett.

Veseys expects to mail out 500,000 to 600,000 catalogues by the end of the year.

Barrett said he has been in regular contact with the VP of sales and the president of Canada Post, and they are confident the tentative deal will be approved.

Barrett added that he is pleased a deal has been reached not just for the savings to the company, but because Veseys has been working with Canada Post for decades and has always had good service.

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