The company has encouraged the growth of "direct" (junk) mail, which now accounts for almost a quarter of its revenues, and launched its own online bill-payment service.
You might instruct your accounting team to slow down billpayment a bit and bring it back in line with prior practices. That could help produce better cash flow.
The work stoppage was certainly inconvenient for many Canadians, and threatened Canada Post’s future revenues by forcing customers to switch to online billpayment.