Canada Post is hoping to avoid any further labour disruptions ahead of the busy holiday delivery season.
The Crown corporation agreed to a proposal from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to appoint another mediator - but only after employees put down the picket signs and work to clear up the backlog of holiday parcels and mail.
Matthew Aiken, president of Kelowna's local, blames Canada Post for creating the current situation.
"These collective agreements are negotiated, and they have expiry dates that are well publicized and well-known. The corporation has had ten or eleven months to negotiate these contracts and we're not sure why they left it to the last minute, and we're not sure why they're putting the onus on us to come to the table when all we do is come to the table. These negotiations could have been happening for month, and the fact the corporation let it drag out for this long is unfortunate," he says.
Canada Post is also offering an incentive of a special payment - up to $1,000 to each member - if there's no further job action.
Aiken says that thousand dollar bonus, for each member, could be better spent elsewhere.
"They're going to spend $50-million to appease all the members, but really that $50-million could be negotiated in wages; it could be negotiated in new health and safety initiatives - many other things that we're looking for to improve our conditions. We don't need this band-aid fix, and this little $1,000 gift from the corporation - we want a real contract," he says.
This latest offer has a 5:00 pm deadline.
In the meantime - workers are on the picket lines in Kelowna, Edmonton and Kitchener today.