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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
They all work 5 days a week (unless they are sick or injured). Also it isn't possible for them to save up mail for a few days and then deliver it, unless they are taking bags of mail home with them.
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Well, it's been over two months since I argued about this point, and in the last 10 weeks, still not one piece of mail on a friday. This wouldn't ordinarily bother me, but I am waiting for a piece of mail that could take up to 6 months to arrive, as it's from an unreliable government on a different continent, and so I am checking my mailbox every day (M-F). Now I'm starting to wonder if my postie works on mondays, either.
If it happens to be the case, that I have a part time postie, it doesn't bother me. It's really not
my business how CP does business. 4 (or 3) days a week is better than 1. I've heard it before, though, that posties work 5 days a week, and here in this thread, a postie claims that it's "impossible" that my postie never works on fridays.
I know what some of you are thinking, and yes, I've asked my neighbours. I've lived here for less than a year, and have only befriended my immediate neighbours, and neither of them give a crap about their mail, and only check periodically, so they're not a useful source of info. I did, however, just talk to a random person at our superbox a few minutes ago, and she said (heavily accented, so I'm kinda piecing it together) that she only ever receives mail when "there's the rubber around it", and never on friday. So I'm assuming she means a rubber band, thus indicating that it's only when there's a few pieces of mail. It could also mean one other thing (I happen to know a thing or two about CP, as I once did parcel delivery at xmas, back when they hired contractors), that she's at the beginning or end of a delivery bundle, and the postie just happens to leave his rubber band on her mail when her breaks the new bundle.
But also, she agreed that we never get mail on Fridays. Being a bit older, and it being 230 in the afternoon, I kinda think she's the type that actually checks every day.
I suppose that's a pretty long winded post, for something that allegedly "doesn't bother me". I guess I'm just trying to figure out whether I'm 100% wasting my time by checking my mail on Fridays or not.