Canadians can still e-mail, text, chat, and Skype at will, send Facebook invites and pay those bills online, and so many are thumbing their noses at the snail mail strike.

The rotating strikes are bad news for plenty of Canadians, Canada Post insists, pointing to small businesses, the six million people living in rural Canada without broadband access, as well as the 4.5 million senior citizens who use snail mail regularly.

Those who rely on mail daily are scrambling to set up alternative arrangements.

The Canadian Bankers Association is urging people who haven't done so already to sign up for online banking.

In Toronto, welfare recipients will have to pick up their cheques or arrange direct deposit.

And small businesses will have to turn to costly private carriers for their shipments, although one company, "feminist sex store" Good For Her, has already sidestepped those costs with an offer to personally deliver erotic wares to Torontonians by bicycle.

“The weather is beautiful, and this way the staff here get to mix our love of bicycles and our desire to provide impeccable customer service," manager Alison Lee said in a release. Source...