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syz said:
Did y'all know they made 6 Home Alone movies?
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I stopped watching after 1 and 2. I keep hearing #3 is good, but doesn't feel the same with different characters

Spawn said:
This whole conversation reminds me of when Peter’s Drive In opened up in Edmonton. I live just a few blocks from there and for the first few months one lane on Calgary Trail would constantly be backed up with people trying to get into the drive in.

You aren’t missing much folks!
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I remember going to the CGY one years ago after hearing so much hype and I thought it tasted like garbage lol. Did not even attempt the one here.
 
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rboomercat90 said:
No mail delivery in over a month due to the letter carriers strike. On their third day back to work I’ve finally got something in my mailbox. It’s a pizza flyer. How much were they asking for again?
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I've got nothing yet. Expecting a fair bit but our mail carrier makes a point of bundling our mail in a stack once per week, even though thats not at all what she is supposed to be doing. This is when the mail is even stuffed in the right box.

Heres a thing. Since the advent of the letter boxes its of course made mail delivery a whole lot easier than it used to be. On most of the runs now hop out of the truck and theres the letterbox with 20 slots. you're not walking up and down 20 sidewalks and steps anymore or being at risk of dogs. The job isn't in any way as hard as it was previously and yet this factor never reflected in the job salary or indeed in Canada Post economic statements. These changes occurred for efficiency, and to manage costs but really its just so management can give themselves bigger bonuses and Union can claw whatever they can.
Finally, with a letterbox one block away and across an icy street why am I paying the same postage on everything than somebody with a mailbox right outside their door. This is not at all the same service. Canada post set up a two tier system. We all pay the same for it.
 
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Drivesaitl said:
I've got nothing yet. Expecting a fair bit but our mail carrier makes a point of bundling our mail in a stack once per week, even though thats not at all what she is supposed to be doing. This is when the mail is even stuffed in the right box.

Heres a thing. Since the advent of the letter boxes its of course made mail delivery a whole lot easier than it used to be. On most of the runs now hop out of the truck and theres the letterbox with 20 slots. you're not walking up and down 20 sidewalks and steps anymore or being at risk of dogs. The job isn't in any way as hard as it was previously and yet this factor never reflected in the job salary or indeed in Canada Post economic statements. These changes occurred for efficiency, and to manage costs but really its just so management can give themselves bigger bonuses and Union can claw whatever they can.
Finally, with a letterbox one block away and across an icy street why am I paying the same postage on everything than somebody with a mailbox right outside their door. This is not at all the same service. Canada post set up a two tier system. We all pay the same for it.
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I’m in a large residential high rise. Our mail room is in the lobby of the building. The changes Canada Post made that you described haven’t affected me but there have been other issues that have made me question them.

They won’t deliver parcels to my building. If something doesn’t fit in the mailbox they give you a notice that it must be picked up at the post office now. That wasn’t always the case. Years ago they put a large box in the mailroom. It has several compartments that can hold parcels. The idea was they lock your parcel in one of the compartments in the box and put a key for it in your mailbox. When you take your parcel there is then a slot to return your key. That worked fine for years but then they stopped using it and just left the notice that you needed to go to the post office. I bring this up only because they made a point of saying they deserve a 26% wage increase due to the large increase in the amount of parcels they’re delivering. Again, not sure how it is in other areas but I have to go to the post office myself to get mine.

The other issue was a bigger one. About a year after Covid they renovated the lobby in my building. Apparently the paint fumes that were present for a week or so were too much for the sensitive letter carriers that were already traumatized from COVID that they refused to enter the building to deliver the mail for months. They didn’t bother telling anyone and the only reason I found out was because AHS phoned me to get my new address because the mail they were sending me kept getting returned.

I’ve thought they’ve been teetering on obsolete since before the last postal strike around 15 years and needed to recognize that. Their demands this time around indicate they’re just as delusional as ever and walking out at this time of year was going to kill any support from a public that’s kinda forgotten about them anyway.
 
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God I hate Chiarelli.. What an abomination this 2018-2019 roster was.

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rboomercat90 said:
No mail delivery in over a month due to the letter carriers strike. On their third day back to work I’ve finally got something in my mailbox. It’s a pizza flyer. How much were they asking for again?
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I had a property assessment letter... From Nov 22nd.
 
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bellagiobob said:


Don’t cheat. And @Fourier , you can’t play. ;)
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This is a nice question! I think the answer would surprise a lot of people.

TheGingaNinja said:
I'll say it in Spanish to make it fancier. Uno.

If I'm wrong, it's cause I suck at math ad was hoping it was trick question.

Now that i think about it, I'm pretty sure I'm wrong. I'll own my wrong answer tho.
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Spanish makes it seem more intellectual, but unfortunately it does not make it more correct. :)
 
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rboomercat90 said:
No mail delivery in over a month due to the letter carriers strike. On their third day back to work I’ve finally got something in my mailbox. It’s a pizza flyer. How much were they asking for again?
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22% raise over 4 years, better working conditions (weather control I suppose), more sick days because 2 weeks isn’t enough, 80% disability payments because 67% the rest of the insured get isn’t good enough and free sex change operations.

Time to privatize and put 40,000 of the 55,000 out to pasture.
 
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TheGingaNinja said:
I'll say it in Spanish to make it fancier. Uno.

If I'm wrong, it's cause I suck at math ad was hoping it was trick question.

Now that i think about it, I'm pretty sure I'm wrong. I'll own my wrong answer tho.
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Bit of a tricky one. If one lefty left the room, there would be 98 lefties and 1 rightie still in the room, so still just under 99% lefties. Would need 50 lefties to leave the room to get down to 98%.
 
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brentashton said:
Ugh.

I know he wasnt everyone’s cup but always sad when players of the same vintage pass away at, what I call, a young age. Like him or hate him, the man was a baller.

nypost.com

Rickey Henderson, Hall of Famer and MLB’s all-time stolen bases leader, dead at 65

Rickey Henderson, a Baseball Hall of Famer and MLB’s all-time stolen bases leader, has died, The Post has confirmed.
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One of the icons of the game.

My favourite memory of him was the story of him when he played for the Mets telling John Olerud that he once played with a guy in Toronto that always wore a batting helmet while playing first base too. Ricky was a weird dude but in his prime he was the best base stealer the sport has ever seen.
 
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rboomercat90 said:
One of the icons of the game.

My favourite memory of him was the story of him when he played for the Mets telling John Olerud that he once played with a guy in Toronto that always wore a batting helmet while playing first base too. Ricky was a weird dude but in his prime he was the best base stealer the sport has ever seen.
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I loved John replying, Hey Ricky, that was me! Just out on his own planet for sure.
 
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