After a two-week halt, postal delivery will resume today.

A legislation forcing 48,000 locked-out postal workers back to their jobs has been passed.

Post offices closed during the labour dispute will begin re-opening today, while mailboxes were unsealed yesterday.

The announcement was made on June 26 following royal assent on the government's back-to-work-bill. The bill, which imposed a labour contract on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, was passed by the House of Commons on June 25 and the Senate on June 26.

Postal workers were locked out June 14 after 12 days of rotating strikes.

Because of a backlog of unprocessed mail in its system and an accumulation of mail received from other countries that has not yet entered the system, Canada Post reports it is unsure when postal delivery will return to normal.

Although Canadians using email were not as impacted, the government stated the economy would lose millions of dollars a week due to the lock out.

The Senate spent more than seven hours studying the back-to-work bill before voting 53-26 in favour.

The law imposes a four-year contract on workers, specifies pay increases and puts other disputed issues to binding arbitration.