The union president representing local postal workers is hopeful the latest offer from Canada Post is enough to get mail moving again.
Phil Lyons is the president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 630 and says, with the strike lasting more than three weeks, workers are ready for a solution.
Canada Post issued a contract offer Wednesday, but has only given the union until Saturday to answer.
Lyons says the bargaining process has gone on for far too long.
"Regardless of whether this is accepted or not, this bargaining process has to change. The Canadian public can no longer be held hostage every four years by a bargaining process. Eleven months to settle a contract and the issues weren't that major."
He says workers just want to be treated fairly.
"We're doing well. The parcel business is booming and a worker needs to go to work feeling like they're safe and that they're going to come home in the same condition and they signed up to work eight hours, not nine, 10, 11 or 12. You're not going to hold us hostage no more. Something has to change."
Canada Post workers in the picket line in Windsor on November 14, 2018 (Photo courtesy of CTV Windsor's Angelo Aversa)
According to Canada Post, the four-year offer includes a 2% wage increase each year and new job security provisions.
Lyons says the offer came just hours after online retailer eBay reportedly called on Ottawa to end the contract dispute.
"What we really worry about is the small businesses that depend on us because we're not a letter business anymore. We're a parcel business and there's a lot of home businesses and they're the ones that really concern us. The giants, they'll always get by."
Lyons says he's waiting on a recommendation from the union's national bargaining team to deliver to his members at the local level.
Canada Post's 50,000 employees hit the picket lines October 22.
Rotating strikes, which hit the Windsor area for the second time Wednesday, have created a historic backlog of undelivered parcels.