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Damn Canada Post! It's all your fault!

gsdx

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A few weeks ago, I ordered a commemorative set of 2018 Armistice coins. It featured a $2 coin with a coloured poppy, a regular, uncoloured poppy Toonie, a $1 coin (Loonie), a 50¢ piece, a quarter (25¢), a dime (10¢), and a nickel (5¢).

It came in a 3-panel set in heavy card with the middle panel in double card:

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It's also wrapped in heavy plastic.

Stupid, stupid Canada post delivered it today and the idiot mail carrier folded it in half to fit it in the mailbox!

I guess a bubble envelope doesn't protect from idiocy, especially when there is a sign right next to the mailbox to set all parcels on the table inside the door.
 
gsdx said:
Canada post delivered it today and the idiot mail carrier folded it in half
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I imagine whichever agency fulfilled your order will grant you an exchange, if you bring the matter to their attention. Did the package include instructions, such as “do not bend” on the outside?
 
Your postal carrier is a dick.
 
opinterph said:
I imagine whichever agency fulfilled your order will grant you an exchange, if you bring the matter to their attention. Did the package include instructions, such as “do not bend” on the outside?
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It's the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa. The thing that is most annoying is that the 4 layers of heavy card requires some serious effort to bend in half. I'll contact the Mint tomorrow and see what can be done and possibly make some other arrangements for delivery.
 
The Loonie Toonie Gooney should be beaten, preferably publicly. Then to the stocks!
 
^ Your government could save millions per year just by dumping the penny and minting dollar coins instead of paper bills.
 
And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bike.

Non-sequitur much?
 
gsdx said:
^ Your government could save millions per year just by dumping the penny and minting dollar coins instead of paper bills.
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I wish they'd get rid of the damn pennies. I don't think a dollar coin will every catch on here. We'll be on electronic currency before that happens.

I haven't seen any commercials for the Royal Canadian Mint lately. They used to advertise commemorative coins a lot.
 
gsdx said:
^ Your government could save millions per year just by dumping the penny and minting dollar coins instead of paper bills.
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The U. S. mint already produces dollar coins. . .but, as long as they continue to produce the dollar bill, people prefer the lighter weight and flexibility of paper. The average U. S. citizen is lazy and doesn't like change (pun intended :D ), even when the change saves him money. Besides, who in their right mind wants to carry five or six or more dollar coins around in their pocket when the bill is easier. The simple solution would be for the mint to stop printing dollar bills and force the Federal Reserve Banks to only handle dollar coins. Then, when retailers pick up cash from the bank for their weekly (or daily use) and can only get coinage, people will be forced to use them.
 
Alistair said:
I haven't seen any commercials for the Royal Canadian Mint lately. They used to advertise commemorative coins a lot.
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They only advertise here for special commemorative sets or coins, such as the set I bought. Like postage stamps, there are always new releases.
 
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I ordered 2 of these chimneys, we have 'cluster' mail boxes with large boxes for packages. The mail carrier has to deliver anything that won't fit to your door. They shoved the package into the large box, put their hip against it to lock the door, crushing the package and breaking one of the chimneys. I am at the point where I am never surprised at incompetence.

As for the coin vs. the paper bill, it would cost much more in fuel to deliver coins than bills. The pennies make no cents, but neither do the dollar coins (pun intended):p
 
peeonme said:
I ordered 2 of these chimneys, we have 'cluster' mail boxes with large boxes for packages. The mail carrier has to deliver anything that won't fit to your door. They shoved the package into the large box, put their hip against it to lock the door, crushing the package and breaking one of the chimneys.
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And I'm awaiting four copies of a Canadian newspaper that a friend in Nova Scotia sent me. They did a story on me, about how I came back from Chicago to visit their small town. Yes, slow Canada Post (or striking drivers, etc.?) are slowing that down, I guess.
 
^ It's the strike. There is legislation in the works now to get them back to end them. They are rotating strikes but, in effect, they bring the entire country to a halt.
 
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