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Canada to phase out door to door delivered post[Merged]

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    #32
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    SPDUB wrote: »
    An Post actually do want Mailboxes but Comreg , the Postal regulator won't allow it .

    They should just pursue it under Health and Safety regulations. It's nuts expecting postmen/women to walk into properties where there may be dogs and also expecting people to bend down to put mail into low-down mailboxes is totally unfair.

    I don't understand why their unions aren't up in arms about it. It's the kind of thing that unions should be going after rather than some of the more frivolous stuff which seems to be all about protecting upper / middle management salaries.


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    #33
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Considering that my main bills are now all electronic, and the only "snail mail" I get these days is either (a) advertising or (b) Revenue letters, the answer is: "not a problem".

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #34
    Thoie
    Registered Users Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    They should just pursue it under Health and Safety regulations. It's nuts expecting postmen/women to walk into properties where there may be dogs and also expecting people to bend down to put mail into low-down mailboxes is totally unfair.

    I don't understand why their unions aren't up in arms about it. It's the kind of thing that unions should be going after rather than some of the more frivolous stuff which seems to be all about protecting upper / middle management salaries.

    Ignoring packages (which are a whooolllle other story), I suspect post office workers have fewer letters than ever to deliver, so if they didn't complain back in the 80s (which is when health and safety consciousness really started), why would they complain now?


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    #35
    who the fug
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    Bambi wrote: »
    My postmans an utter c**t and this would just give him more scope for utter c***tishness

    seriously he once walked up to my door and without knocking once shoved in the dreaded delivery note stating "you were'nt here when we called so please trek out our depot that in the arse end of an industrial estate in the arse end of nowhere to collect your package". I was actually waiting for the bollix and opened the door on him as he was doing it. lazy c**t just didnt want to carry the package from his van.

    Try being nice to him/her , may improve delivery


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    #36
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    who the fug wrote: »
    Try being nice to him/her , may improve delivery

    you shouldn't have to be nice to people to get them to do what they're paid to do


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    #37
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    you shouldn't have to be nice to people to get them to do what they're paid to do

    yes but if you are nice, they will make the extra effort, also it is called manners


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    #38
    SPDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    They should just pursue it under Health and Safety regulations. It's nuts expecting postmen/women to walk into properties where there may be dogs and also expecting people to bend down to put mail into low-down mailboxes is totally unfair.

    I don't understand why their unions aren't up in arms about it. It's the kind of thing that unions should be going after rather than some of the more frivolous stuff which seems to be all about protecting upper / middle management salaries.

    It's a bit of a double edged sword for the Union since if boxes are installed the company will say it cuts down on delivery time to each dwelling so each individual postman can be given more houses and therefore less employees would be needed per delivery office

    As for low level issue they are against building regulations since 2000 and if anyone installs one now An Post can deem tham as having no delivery point and not deliver to them .

    They have to deliver to pre 2000 ones though but they are taken into account when planning routes


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    #39
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    who the fug wrote: »
    yes but if you are nice, they will make the extra effort, also it is called manners


    delivering the post is not 'extra effort' for a postman


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    #40
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Soon everything will be delivered by drones. Might as well shut down an post now and be done with it.

    Enda will then be able to collect his brownie points for being first in Europe to shutdown the national postal service


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    #41
    Rabelais
    Site Banned Posts: 263 ✭✭Rabelais


    The Brits realised the importance of developing a postal service. I'd love to see an economic study on its influence on how we came to be what we are. Extremely important at a social and market level. Becoming obsolete though. We communicate online; we become comfortable with services that once involved filling out forms; we actively shop online for services that rely on getting rid of a paper delivery change.

    A method of delivering physical products to the home in an efficient way is still ripe for opportunity. It won't be a system based on a Victorian methodology though.


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    #42
    Dyr
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    who the fug wrote: »
    Try being nice to him/her , may improve delivery

    I never had any dealings with the prick until he started taking liberties with my property and hes notorious for it

    be nice to him? he's lucky he has'nt had the lungs kicked outta him


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    #43
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    What's all this aboout?


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