Postal delivery resumes as AKT ends strike

Normalcy in the postal and logistic services will be restored as the strike of the Finnish Transport Workers’ Union (Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto- AKT) ended in the mid night between Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Finnish Post and Logistics Union (PAU), which extended support to the ATK strike on February 16 also ended at the same time, according to a press release issued by the national postal and logistic services operator Posti in a press release.

“AKT’s strike and PAU’s support measures have unfortunately caused delays and disturbances to our customers’ deliveries. We now focus on delivering the items we received after the strike as normally as possible. At the same time, we will dismantle the backlog that warehousing items during the strike caused. We will do our best to make sure all deliveries run normally as soon as possible,” said Jarmo Ainasoja, Head of Exception Management at Posti.

Finnish Transport Workers’ Union AKT’s strike in ports continues, which may have an impact on deliveries coming to Finland from abroad.

According to Posti´s estimate, parcels sent after the strike will be delivered within two weekdays after the strike has ended, letters, magazines, newspapers in daytime delivery and advertisement mail sent after the strike will be delivered as per usual in about a week, parcels sent during the strike / parcels that were not processed due to the strike that have been temporarily warehoused will be delivered in two to four weekdays, letters, magazines, newspapers in our daytime delivery and advertisement mail sent during the strike will be delivered as soon as possible, but due to the large amount some deliveries will be delayed by more than a week.

Since there is a significantly higher amount of paper mail compared to parcels, its handling will take more time.

Freight deliveries sent after the strike will be delivered in two to three days, freight deliveries that arrived at Posti during the strike may be delayed by two to six days, early-morning newspapers were delivered normally during the strike, except for minor local disturbances.

The AKT has started a tougher strike on February 15 demanding solution to collective agreement disputes.

The ongoing strike also affected various sectors including flight operations, postal delivery, waste and fuel transportation etc.