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Do you agree with the House's decision to pass the Canada Post back-to-work bill?

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A locked out Canada Post employee pickets outside the main postal facility in Halifax. MPs in the House of Commons voted in favour of passing back-to-work legislation after a marathon debate on Saturday. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)

Last updated: June 27, 2011 10:09 AM ET

Canadian homes and businesses will start receiving mail again Tuesday now that legislation forcing 48,000 locked-out postal workers back to their jobs has become law, Canada Post says.

Post offices that were closed during the labour dispute will start to reopen Tuesday as well, while mailboxes will be unsealed starting Monday, the Crown corporation said.

The announcement came Sunday night, shortly after the government's back-to-work-bill received royal assent.

The bill imposing a labour contract on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers was passed by the House of Commons on Saturday and the Senate on Sunday.


The Crown corporation locked out the employees on June 14, after the union conducted 12 days of rotating strikes.

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