Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

lol!

Canadian Shipping is such a joy. I make a small order. This would have been a soft/small pack kind of thing.

Shipping Options

Canada Post - 2 bucks, "will not ship until strike is over."

Well that sucks, lets see our options under this drop down.

Fedex - 25 dollars.

I didnt even register the name of the other option, but it was also 20+.

The page was closed, no order made.

 

[overgeeked]

Canada Post - 2 bucks, "will not ship until strike is over."

Best of luck to your striking postal workers. Hope they get everything they want and more.

 

[Ryujin]

lol!

Canadian Shipping is such a joy. I make a small order. This would have been a soft/small pack kind of thing.

Shipping Options

Canada Post - 2 bucks, "will not ship until strike is over."

Well that sucks, lets see our options under this drop down.

Fedex - 25 dollars.

I didnt even register the name of the other option, but it was also 20+.

The page was closed, no order made.

Just what businesses need, with the increased costs caused by recent issues.

Just got back from submitting my passport renewal. Sounds like they're waiting until November to see if the strike ends. If not, they'll ship by courier. I wasn't going to pay for expedited renewal because I'm not traveling until next year, at the earliest.

 

[Scribe]

Best of luck to your striking postal workers. Hope they get everything they want and more.

Pretty sure they wont. Its been hemorrhaging money for years and years, I believe last year they were a Billion in the red.

I'm not sure on the details, but to hear it on the radio, all the various services (FedEx, Purallator, DHL, the companies Amazon pays a fraction to deliver for them) all have taken up the business, and paper mail/stamps, just doesnt get it done.

I believe they just said that within 10 years, door to door service will end.

 

[overgeeked]

Pretty sure they wont. Its been hemorrhaging money for years and years, I believe last year they were a Billion in the red.

I'm not sure on the details, but to hear it on the radio, all the various services (FedEx, Purallator, DHL, the companies Amazon pays a fraction to deliver for them) all have taken up the business, and paper mail/stamps, just doesnt get it done.

I believe they just said that within 10 years, door to door service will end.

Capitalism proving yet again that necessary services should not be tied to the profit motive.

 

[Scribe]

Capitalism proving yet again that necessary services should not be tied to the profit motive.

Yeah, there are issues for sure with how spread out everything is here, but yeah I dont know enough to comment on it.

I'd hope (???) that all the taxes I pay would be going towards keeping it afloat? You know, Hospitals, Police, Mail, Roads? The basic things that matter?

But down that road lies red text.

 

[Ryujin]

Pretty sure they wont. Its been hemorrhaging money for years and years, I believe last year they were a Billion in the red.

I'm not sure on the details, but to hear it on the radio, all the various services (FedEx, Purallator, DHL, the companies Amazon pays a fraction to deliver for them) all have taken up the business, and paper mail/stamps, just doesnt get it done.

I believe they just said that within 10 years, door to door service will end.

The big problem is that none of those other carriers will take up the business of shipping to remote locations, because there's no money to be made in it. Back when I worked in computer manufacturing, we had a client on Les iles de la Madeleine. It didn't matter what service we used; the last leg, between PEI and the iles, was done by Canada Post. This was somewhat complicated by the fact that Canada Post wouldn't ship the computers directly, because of their size, so it became a $35.00 surcharge for all of the other couriers. I can only imagine what will happen to costs for places like reserves in Northern Ontario, YT, NT, and NU.

 

[Scribe]

The big problem is that none of those other carriers will take up the business of shipping to remote locations, because there's no money to be made in it. Back when I worked in computer manufacturing, we had a client on Les iles de la Madeleine. It didn't matter what service we used; the last leg, between PEI and the iles, was done by Canada Post. This was somewhat complicated by the fact that Canada Post wouldn't ship the computers directly, because of their size, so it became a $35.00 surcharge for all of the other couriers. I can only imagine what will happen to costs for places like reserves in Northern Ontario, YT, NT, and NU.

Exactly. The population is spread out after you leave the what single digit major centers, over vast distances that make no sense for FedEx or whatever so cover.

What a weird country we are sometimes.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Y'know those days where you kinda feel like you're an npc in someone else's adventure?

Lately I'm starting to think maybe I'm that one really obnoxious npc that everyone goes out of their way to kill...

 

[Deset Gled]

Y'know those days where you kinda feel like you're an npc in someone else's adventure?

Lately I'm starting to think maybe I'm that one really obnoxious npc that everyone goes out of their way to kill...