Ship staff 49, in Blaine Wash., Having a seat in the front row for the activity in passing on the Canadian-American Pacific border.
Or lately, the lack of activity on the border.
“So, at the moment, we are in a set at 60% income,” Josie Frodert, director of the parcel service, at Global News, told Global News.
“We get less than 30 packages, 30 to 40 packages per day. It is down 150 to 200. It’s already our slow season, so it slows down, but it’s very, very slow.”
Front said that as a result, they reduced operating hours. It leaves the lights and the heat as much as possible to save money that they can.
“We want to stay in business,” she said.
“We love our customers. The owner’s Canadian. “
Front said they used to bring 45 to 60 customers per day, but now he has dropped considerably.
She said they also heard their customers, saying they are afraid of crossing the border.
“They are afraid of coming and then they don’t want to pay the prices in return,” she said. “It’s huge.”
Fradert said that the rumor mill was going strong, the customers telling his stories about the hearing that the army had been staged on the border that turns Canadians, that the border guards will search everyone’s phone and they will ask you if you like US President Donald Trump and if you say: `No,” So you are prohibited in the United States.
Everything she said is false.
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“These are the kinds of things I hear, that customers hear, no first hand, but others and thus gossip, and that makes them not want to go down,” she added.
“I sent an email and a call to several customers, simply abandoning their packages because they are afraid of coming.”
Front said that she had not heard of any of her customers with negative experience on the border.
However, she was surprised to See secondary inspections start to perform at the border crossing For travelers returning to Canada.
She told Global News that she thought it was an exercise because she had never seen border agents doing it before.
“Now it’s been underway for almost two weeks. Not all day, every day; they do it for about four hours at a time and have a lunch break,” she added.
“But, you know, I thought at the start that it was the Canadian team doing outgoing inspections, but I realized that it was the American team.”
Front said that she was working four days a week and that she saw the control points for additional borders “almost every time” she worked and fear that they are dissuasive for customers.
She said Blaine suffered from reduced border passages. She said that companies dismiss workers, that no one hires and that she fears that it becomes a ghost city.
“I hope we can hang on because our customers love us. We love them. They are like a family for me, and many of them miss. You know, I know that most of our customers by their first names. ”
Fewer British Colombians lead to WhatCom county because the data from the four crossings of the Lower Mainland show that there were more than 200,000 BC vehicles crossing the South in April 2024.
However, this number plunged more than half in April.
Other companies nearby are also trying to attract Canadians.
Mark Andrew, regional vice-president for Columbia Hospitality and managing director of Semiahmoo Resort Golf & Spa, told Global News that they are currently directing a promotion where Canadians pay 30% less, putting it on equality with the US dollar.
“It is not up to us to repair the feelings hard, but rather to go ahead and celebrate the relationship between the British and the Washingtonians,” he said.
“We believe that this whole station has been built because of our location. We are a white stone jet. We are a blaine stone throw, and this is the relationship between us and the British.
“We were built to serve our neighbors to the north.”
Andrew said visitors to British Columbia are a “major part” of the station’s customers.
He said they were starting to see reservations for the summer, but that the visits during the spring holidays were broken.
It is however optimistic about the future.
“We find that when people cross the border, they come for a goal and a reason,” he said.
“They come to celebrate a restaurant, they come to move away from the work they do. So we find that business is increasing, and we find that people are moving away from all the crazy news in the world to enjoy peace and calm in semi-Laahmoo. ”
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