Tim Horton
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Post by Tim Horton on Dec 14, 2023 12:48:50 GMT 10
From experience, Canada Post is miserable.. The contract carriers, the ones that have a route to fill the neighborhood mail boxes are good and efficient unless roads are bad and mail boxes not snow plowed out.. I had to get mail at the main post office when our local mail boxes got clobbered by a log truck and it was a pain in the neck to deal with them..
Local smaller town USPS is real good, but bigger stations are not...
I think your right in that ...creative accounting.. plays a big part in getting there budget approved and all... If they anticipate a percent of goal and do not achieve that goal, that is considered a loss even though it is over and above the last years goal.. I've seen this a number of times in different places..
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bug
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Post by bug on Dec 14, 2023 13:24:00 GMT 10
That whole Auspost making a big loss is a scam. Creative accounting designed to pressure the grubbyment into permitting Post to ditch the non profitable areas of it’s business and expand the profitable. Ie: ditch letters and expand parcel delivery. Post ran a loss because they spent many hundreds of millions on new aircraft and new parcel sorting centres. A smart businessman never makes a profit. That just encourages the human filth politifilth to tax your earnings. They treat their staff like shyte. Poor pay ($32ph), poor conditions (6hr-7hr delivery in 43d heat), our last annual bonus was a $5 coffee voucher ( I’m not joking), total electronic surveillance every minute of your day, senior managers who have the intelligence of dog poo. And in our peak period, the 3 weeks leading into Christmas, they load us up with junk mail to extend our outdoor time in a heatwave. I hope they retrench staff, my arm will go up so fast I’ll tear a delt. Why is it a requirement that an Auspost Licensee Holder weigh 285kgs, have seven chins and bark at us when we simply ask for a Passport Form?? "Barely speaks English" was our problem. Neighbours had the same experience. We went to another post office instead who were very good. |
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Post by Stealth on Dec 14, 2023 19:30:14 GMT 10
total electronic surveillance every minute of your day I remember many years ago hearing about Telstra regional linies being GPS tracked for every minute of every day when it came to moving around areas to do their work. It took one of them unsubscribing from life because of the stress and anxiety it caused him and they backed RIGHT off the gas on that. Maybe you need everyone on delivery submitting a HR report for mental health treatment all within a few weeks of each other to get the message across 😒. |
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frostbite
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Post by frostbite on Dec 14, 2023 19:38:35 GMT 10
total electronic surveillance every minute of your day I remember many years ago hearing about Telstra regional linies being GPS tracked for every minute of every day when it came to moving around areas to do their work. It took one of them unsubscribing from life because of the stress and anxiety it caused him and they backed RIGHT off the gas on that. Maybe you need everyone on delivery submitting a HR report for mental health treatment all within a few weeks of each other to get the message across 😒. Two cameras on each bike, 3 on the buggies, gps tracking, sensors for acceleration, braking, lean angle, front fork movement, all sending data in real time to the boss. I’ve got 12 months till retirement and 8 months leave to use up, so I’m more than happy to tell the boss to go fork himself. |
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texasjim
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Post by texasjim on Dec 14, 2023 23:37:16 GMT 10
This is at my local post office.
Wow... I assume that came into play during covid and they just found it convenient so retained the sign so that less people use cash? I can see how it would be easier. Less trips to the bank with cash in hand (unsafe), less having cash on site in general (unsafe). I can see why businesses would continue it but from a post office? Here in Aus, there's a lot of people forced to conduct banking through their local post office due to branch closures. Imagine if a post office held that rule now! Well, there probably IS a few that do it and I just haven't seen them. Mind you, this is a good reminder to get more cash out. That, and a friend of mine is currently travelling with their family. They're in the boonies and apparently their bank's service went down. They went to make a purchase at a servo and nek minit, failed transaction because the bank shut everything down. Fortunately they had a spare card from another bank with them (I'd have carried cash personally but that's just me) and were still able to make the purchase but for the bank to just axe it services like that? Apparently they sent out a text message to inform customers but of course out in the middle of nowhere they didn't have cell service so they didn't get the text. My cash reserves have run low recently because of the time of year but time to boost that up again I reckon! I also want to find a way to stash it in my car that's well hidden but easily accessible. The problem I see with the post office doing that here.is that way to many ppl here don't have enough money to have a checking account much less a savings account..that adds up to no debt card.no stamps and nothing else for you here. |
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malewithatail
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Post by malewithatail on Dec 15, 2023 6:46:14 GMT 10
Our local Post Office offers all sorts of services, from getting cash out, to mail boxes and a bill paying service for most Government and service providers. All for free.
There is a Police station, a small supermarket, a produce shop, RFS fire station, Pub and School in there as well.
Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation
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