I loved Thursdays around here. My neighbour's kids were delivering it every Thursday, and it was like Christmas here...
Am I gonna get a CT flyer...or a PA flyer this week?! Never know!
Now with the closures of the small newspapers...not only do I lose that flyer regularly on Thursday, but the kids next door just lost their $10/week delivery route.
I had a paper route when I was 13ish. Toronto Sun. Delivered before 6 am on SUNDAY, winter months. Then had to chase the bastards for money for weeks on end. I don't think I made $10.
I gave up after 2 months and told The Sun to find another paper boy.
I had a paper route when I was 13ish. Toronto Sun. Delivered before 6 am on SUNDAY, winter months. Then had to chase the bastards for money for weeks on end. I don't think I made $10.
I gave up after 2 months and told The Sun to find another paper boy.
A friend way back then had a route and one day I tagged along with him. I don't know if the clients were under the impression he was an employee and was paid hourly but seeing someone stiff a kid sucked.
In the humourous line, a friend had nothing to do so he tagged along with a friend of his in the guy's old Econoline van, early in the morning, servicing the Globe and Mail boxes. The manual tranny would sometimes jam the rods and the driver got out crawled under the van and pulled them loose.
The friends buddy was under the truck and asked what the hissing noise was. Then a street washer drove by.
My bag of flyers was delivered to doorstep for years, then in the last year or so we got a new guy who would barely toss them out the car window as he drove by. Sometimes landing on the sidewalk, sometimes landing on the lawn, etc, cheesed me off so much that they went straight into the bin every single week. Was tempted to wait until he came back up the street and throw them back into his passenger window on more than one occasion. First world problems I guess
From what I remember during my brief stint (one summer maybe 7 years ago) as a mail carrier delivery agent for Canada Post, was that the route was split into 3 sections (blue, pink, orange) as far as flyers. You would do one section per day, saving yourself from carrying the bulky flyers. Anyway, those flyers were sorted in with your mail at the depot. Hence being delivered to your mail box/slot. Whereas something in a bag that's being left halfway up your walk way is probably a 3rd party situation.
Any current posties please correct me if I'm wrong, or if the procedure has changed.
From what I remember during my brief stint (one summer maybe 7 years ago) as a mail carrier delivery agent for Canada Post, was that the route was split into 3 sections (blue, pink, orange) as far as flyers. You would do one section per day, saving yourself from carrying the bulky flyers. Anyway, those flyers were sorted in with your mail at the depot. Hence being delivered to your mail box/slot. Whereas something in a bag that's being left halfway up your walk way is probably a 3rd party situation.
Any current posties please correct me if I'm wrong, or if the procedure has changed.
Canada Post is the only entity that is allowed to put stuff in your mailbox. Third parties are not legally allowed to put stuff in your mailbox.
No one ever enforces it, but....
Back in the early '80s I knew a guy that had a "paper route" in Vancouver's west end. I don't remember the exact numbers but IIRC he was delivering more than 3,000 papers a day (almost all the papers got dropped in the lobby of an apartment), and earning about $35,000/yr... in the early '80s... which is about $120,000 today.
The Sun/Province papers wouldn't give any more "routes" when he hit 1000 papers/day, so he enlisted neighbourhood kids to get routes and he paid the kids a percentage.
Canada Post is the only entity that is allowed to put stuff in your mailbox. Third parties are not legally allowed to put stuff in your mailbox.
No one ever enforces it, but....
My bag of flyers was delivered to doorstep for years, then in the last year or so we got a new guy who would barely toss them out the car window as he drove by. Sometimes landing on the sidewalk, sometimes landing on the lawn, etc
I find the accuracy to be weather dependent. Sunny, the guy is always within the 19' driveway width and about 15' or so deep, depending on his windup. Street is on a slope so when it rains there's a 1" deep puddle 3'x1.5' at the low corner of my driveway. He has an uncanny knack of getting the bag dead center of the puddle every single time it rains.
I think Bitzz is correct , your mail box is considered a federal property location, the law is probably 200 yrs old in Canada , and probably hasn’t been enforced in 100.
Like getting out of your car to look both ways at a stop in Illinois . Old rules . 100yrs old .
I think Bitzz is correct , your mail box is considered a federal property location, the law is probably 200 yrs old in Canada , and probably hasn’t been enforced in 100.
Like getting out of your car to look both ways at a stop in Illinois . Old rules . 100yrs old .
The mailboxes inside a post office, and super mailboxes are exclusive to Canada Post, not sure about private mailboxes and mail slots on your property.
Canada Post talks about standards in the postal regs, but I can't see anything in their regs or federal laws that give them exclusivity on my private mailbox.
My neighbors are Fu(ken lazy.
Not a fault of CP. They are just doing their job delivering junk.
How much effort does it take to take the junk with you into your car and recycle it at home.
My neighbors are Fu(ken lazy.
Not a fault of CP. They are just doing their job delivering junk.
How much effort does it take to take the junk with you into your car and recycle it at home.
My neighbors are Fu(ken lazy.
Not a fault of CP. They are just doing their job delivering junk.
How much effort does it take to take the junk with you into your car and recycle it at home.
I would say 'you would be surprised' and yet here we have it in living colour.
Friend called me a few months ago, he has a house in Barrie that he hasn't visited for awhile. "what the hell do i have to do to stop them from cramming all this junk mail into the box???" Put up a 'no junk mail please' label on your mailbox. "Okay but why the hell do they have to keep cramming it and cramming it in. It's already full." We are told to keep delivering it and paid extra to do so. "Okay but it's full, wtf. Why doesn't he just stop??" You could empty your mailbox more often??
I like the flyers , I’m going to buy groceries anyway, may as well know where the deals are . CTC could just tell you to read last weeks , it’s always the same . I think how fliers are handled depends on your hood , it’s either a tidy place or a complete mess .
I mailed some BMW parts to the UK last month and the rate they gave was $246 to arrive in 5-7 days. It took 2.5 weeks so I put in a request for refund since it was so late without a reason. They gave me a refund but sent me a snotty email saying it was a one-time thing and they don't offer guaranteed rates anymore. So I redid the online price and screen-shot the price with the "5-7 days guaranteed" sentence back to them.
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