Canada Post strike: Business booming for Metro Vancouver courier company [Video]

Trexity expanded its app-based local courier company for small businesses to the Metro Vancouver market in September. Its drivers are part of the gig economy, accepting assignments in the Trexity app much like food deliveries. And since Canada Post workers went on strike, they’ve been run off their feet.

“A lot of local businesses are flocking and looking for alternate solutions, and we happen to be one of those,” said Trexity founder and CEO Alok Ahuja. “We are doing hundreds of merchants in Vancouver and then we are doing thousands of deliveries.”

Ahuja says the strike has left small businesses in the lurch at their most important time of the year, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales kicking off the holiday rush.

“Its just good to know that we are in a position to help these small businesses. I say it to the team every day, ‘Strong relationships are …