The Canada Post strike is meaning more than empty mailboxes for businesses across the country.

Tyler Slobogian, a Senior Policy Analyst with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business comments.

“Small businesses are experiencing delayed deliveries, cash flow issues from unpaid invoices and missed sales during their busiest season. For many, this is obviously devastating especially if they are already grappling with so much as it is.”

Slobogian says that 75 per cent of small businesses said they will be impacted negatively by the strike.

He added that 80 per cent of these businesses still rely on Canada Post for deliveries, especially in rural and remote areas where affordable alternatives are not available.

It’s been estimated that the cost of the strike on business each day is around $77 million and the CFIB has called on the government to intercede.

Meanwhile, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it has sent the government-appointed mediator new counter-proposals. Ottawa paused federal mediation in the dispute last week, but the union says it’s ready to get the federal help again.