B.C. charities, passport seekers feel the pinch as Canada Post strike drags on [Video]

There appears to be no end in sight to the strike paralyzing Canada’s postal system, a fact causing headaches both for B.C. charities and British Columbians waiting for their passports.

Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been on the picket lines for weeks, calling for higher wages, better medical benefits and changes to the postal service’s use of temporary workers.

The frozen mail service has left Bryan Kurtz with a dilemma. The Revelstoke resident applied for his passport weeks ago, and has learned the travel document is ready for pickup at the post office, but now inaccessible.

He’s hoping to travel internationally to visit his mother, and is now weighing re-applying for the document.

“No I am in this limbo where my trip is just after Christmas, and I have to decide whether I should go and get an express one and pay for it again, which is …