What are you doing in response to DHL shutting down Canadian operations because of the strike?

DHL announced today that it is shutting down pickups for packages to/from Canada at 9pm ET Tuesday, July 17, and shutting down all Canadian operations on Friday, July 20. I did not realize until receiving the announcement that the DHL pickup I had for a package this morning would be the last one to Canada for the foreseeable future.

In my Amazon.ca store, I have

• copied my shipping template to a backup to preserve the current settings
• increased the per-kg rate by 50% (except the 2-day setting, which I kept the same as I would not have used DHL for that anyway)

As substitute shipping methods for Amazon.ca orders, I plan to use ShipStation/Stamps.com’s +$9.95 fixed-rate DDP service via USPS for standard shipments, and UPS with DDP for shipments that that service isn’t suitable for. I didn’t use a rate calculator to determine that 50% is the right amount to increase shipping cost by; just a rough estimate based on what I’ve seen in the past.

I made the changes immediately as I do not want to use DHL tomorrow, or the rest of today; too much risk of the package getting stuck in the system before the carrier shuts down in Canada on Friday. (Hopefully the package I shipped today will make it through in time.)