Canada Post to stop home mail delivery

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by Byrns

I'm pretty sure it's contracted out. For my mail it's always the same lady and her 80's RAV4.

For the longest time posties were permitted to use their personal vehicle, recently they purchased a bunch of mini van type things and require that all posties use them for their walk now.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

I live in Hawkwood and get door to door delivery, it depends on when your house was built. IIRC anything built before 1990 still gets home delivery, and that is what's ending now.

Also, the price of stamps is going up to $0.85, or $1.00 if you just buy one at a time.

Not true. My parents house was built in 1984 and they have had a super box for at least 2 decades.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Door to door milk delivery was awesome. As kids we would go through insane amounts of milk and Beep every week.

WTF is Beep?!!!

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

For the longest time posties were permitted to use their personal vehicle, recently they purchased a bunch of mini van type things and require that all posties use them for their walk now.

I thought they only used those for commercial.

Its almost embarrassing seeing these guys driving two feet at a time stopping and dropping some envelopes in a mailbox before getting back in driving another two feet and dropping more mail.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I think that Canada post should get a zepplin per city with 100's of advanced super cannons that can fire the mail through peoples windows.

I would pay for that service.

Anything with a Zeppelin can't go wron-oh wait.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I thought they only used those for commercial.

Its almost embarrassing seeing these guys driving two feet at a time stopping and dropping some envelopes in a mailbox before getting back in driving another two feet and dropping more mail.

A few months ago they got rid of the relay boxes on the walks so now all carriers need the car to hold the mail for the various parts of their walk.

So now they drive to a section of their walk and drop off the mail for x amount of houses and end up back at the car, then drive to another location and do the same thing. Repeat x amount of times and they are done for the day, where they used to walk their whole walk and delivery drivers would drop off bags of mail at the relay boxes for each section of the walk.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

WTF is Beep?!!!

OMG Beep was awesome it was like tang but sweeter.

It wasn't even called juice it was called a fruit flavored beverage.

My parents would be scrapping me off of the ceiling after drinking a glass of that sweet sweet stuff.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Byrns

I'm pretty sure it's contracted out. For my mail it's always the same lady and her 80's RAV4.

I only ever saw official Canada Post vans and Canada Post employees filling my super box.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

OMG Beep was awesome it was like tang but sweeter.

It wasn't even called juice it was called a fruit flavored beverage.

My parents would be scrapping me off of the ceiling after drinking a glass of that sweet sweet stuff.

Why would you get artificial nuclear-orange juice delivered door to door in the morning? The past doesn't make any sense!

[CaptainCrunch]

When we were kids we didn't worry as much about what we put in our bodies food wise as long as we were never in the house and were outside burning it the hell off.

Hell we could eat lego for all our parents cared but it would come out a smoking lump of melted plastic because it soaked in the beep in our stomachs.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

85¢ for domestic mail? A letter from the US to Canada is the same, or maybe even a penny or two cheaper

Haha, how old are you? Complaining about stamp prices places you firmly in the 75+ category.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Why would you get artificial nuclear-orange juice delivered door to door in the morning? The past doesn't make any sense!

Because it was ridiculously tasty, and was always super cold from sitting on the front step...thats why. (mmm, ice milk)

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by canada 02

85¢ for domestic mail? A letter from the us to canada is the same, or maybe even a penny or two cheaper

$1.10

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Madman

Because it was ridiculously tasty, and was always super cold from sitting on the front step...thats why. (mmm, ice milk)

My question is not from a health standpoint as I drank the most delicious artificial beverages as a kid and still remember most of the awesome advertisements for them from the 80s.

My question is why that service was even offered. Who was selling Beep as a morning door to door delivery item and why? Milk I can understand.

[Madman]

The guy from Alpha Milk, that's who.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

My question is why that service was even offered. Who was selling Beep as a morning door to door delivery item and why? Milk I can understand.

Palm Dairies.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

WTF is Beep?!!!

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

My question is not from a health standpoint as I drank the most delicious artificial beverages as a kid and still remember most of the awesome advertisements for them from the 80s.

My question is why that service was even offered. Who was selling Beep as a morning door to door delivery item and why? Milk I can understand.

I weep for today's youth.

[Regular_John]

Being completely selfish I enjoy currently having home delivery, yes I'll miss it.

But I admit it always seemed a little silly to me that on the east side of elbow drive we had home delivery, while the west side of elbow had the super boxes. Homes that are 500 feet away from our complex had to use the super boxes, while the mail delivery person stopped at 100+ doors in our complex for hand delivery. So from a tax payer perspective it's about time.

[Displaced Flames fan]

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.

Just because you don't need mail delivery every day doesn't mean a lot of others don't. Businesses, in particular, rely heavily on the mail to be delivered daily.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Misterpants

Now if we can somehow put an end to the flyer delivery kid...

Meet him at the door without pants. That ought to help. </mrnopants>

We just watched for ours and managed to catch him one day and told him we didn't want any flyers. We did the same with our delivery guy (contracted) - met him at the superbox by chance one day and asked that we don't get any more flyers in the box - only items that had our actual name and address on them. We periodically get letters from Canada Post asking us to resume flyer delivery to our mailbox but we ignore them. The only thing we seem to keep getting regardless, are political mailings, that aren't addressed to anyone. We shove those back in the outgoing mail box.

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I think that Canada post should get a zepplin per city with 100's of advanced super cannons that can fire the mail through peoples windows.

I would pay for that service.

Drones.