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Screw you people who think we should still have daily door-to-door mail delivery. The internet exists and I’m tired of our tax dollars funding this outdated form of communication. Check your privilege. —Patriarch
This article appears in Oct 16-22, 2014.
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Really? What do you know about our tax dollars? Honestly, what do you really know? Start ‘splainin to us what you think you know.
Funny how you ended this with “check your privilege” while clearly demonstrating your own. “The internet exists” doesn’t necessarily mean everyone has the means to access it. You’re just being a classist trash baby.
I agree with stopping door to door. I think it should go the way of the blacksmith.
just because it worked 100 years ago doesn’t mean it should drag on now, when we live differently.
can post should focus on parcel delivery and can add shut-ins to their vehicle route on a once a week schedule.
Nice.
The community mailboxes will form a very important social function in aiding those unfortunates who have fallen through the the societal safety net. Think of them as hunter’s blinds and feeding stations for tweakers, crackheads and wangstas. Need a fix – just wait till Granny comes to pick up her subscription to Redbook. They are located close to roads to make it more convenient for the Investigators to process the crime scene.
morning! but think of the possibilities. card tables set up for games of whist at the community boxes. . tea trollies, recliner chairs. antimacassars being tatted everywhere. could very well engage the little brutes in the art of tea pouring ( I had to learn that in school you know)
Perhaps there will be a market for bullet resistant samovars
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/samovar-boo…
I picture the lady cop from “Fargo” saying – “And I guess that was your accomplice in the tea kettle”
LOL this made my whole day.
tributetolisabonet, while I enjoy the way ‘classist trash baby’ rolls off the tongue, I disagree. My computer broke a couple months ago, at a time when I needed to be using it for a lot of communication purposes. It was about a month before I could get a new one (first mac, love it, very expensive, u mad?) in the meanwhile I was able to get my stuff done at the library for free. There are other outlets as well. So while everyone may not be able to afford a PC (even one found on kijiji for 100 bucks) the resources are available.
All that having been said, I don’t really care about door-to-door mail delivery or not. I just wanted to write a bitch called ‘Mail Entitlement’ LOL
You need a new joke. You can’t just keep repeating patriarchy. That’s not how comedy works.
Check your privilege, Bastard Fish. It’s not meant to be comedy, it’s meant to be annoying. 🙂
The Real Issue
“Screw you people who think we should still have daily door-to-door mail delivery.” Patriarch
The real issue, where door-to-door mail delivery is understood to mean letters and not advertising junk, is the technological flattening of written human communication. But what does that entail?
It entails the decline of sustained and structured thought, that which is required to write a letter rather than a usually ungrammatical single sentence. It entails the rise of the subliterate in the land, one for whom such thought is a “terra incognita.” Instead we see “communication” in the form of attachments – the sender is incapable of writing down their own reflections for the very good reason that they have none – or alternatively, in the form of cartoons which, they suppose, provide an adequate substitute for thought which, come to think of it, does provide an adequate substitute for their “thought.” The “Like” and “Dislike” tabs provide an outlet for the minimal expression for those unable to articulate the reason(s) for their opinions.
All I can say is thank God for people like Montrealman who labour is the stoney soil of social sites like Bitch to raise the level of written human communication. May his kind prosper!
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
P.S. Avatar #52: The Irish Pound.
I haven’t had door to door mail service since 1997, community boxes about 1/2 km from where i live. My sympathy lies with those people who have physical impairments who will find it a tall order to be able to retrieve their mail. Case in point, i have a sister who has major back issues who, this year was informed that they will be placing a community box away from her house approx. same distance as mine. She is now in the process of trying to arrange her mail to still be delivered at her house. No answer as of yet.
I agree with MM on the fact that written word is slowly being taken away from us, much like losing one of our basic freedoms. We may lose it in our mail but will never lose it on internet forums as long as people are willing to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboards and write their thoughts, ideas, reflections and reasonings, as i’ve stated before, it’s all too easy and common to hit a dislike button without giving any reason(s) as to why.
just as we now have weekly garbage removal, why not weekly mail delivery
different streets get garbage removed today, other neighbourhoods, have theirs removed tomorrow etc
so their would still be letter carriers working everyday, just way less of them. put it in in over say a 3 year period, letting retirement thin the crowd.
not that I really care, my area mailbox is down the road a klik or so ~;)
we get flyers and the national geographic
I get flyers, and the national geographic. ( and some troll signed me up for macleans but I don’t have to pay for it since I ‘splained it to them and they are investigating the idiot )
postal service WAS central to the development of society. it isn’t now. the internet is NOW. and even better, the soon to be total connect from blackberry ( yay bb – I have stock) and ups delivery from amazon. pieces of bloody paper being humped around by people with bags is dead, dead dead. it will only rise again if we get nailed by Lucifer’s hammer. (excellent book |)
“postal service WAS central to the development of society” Bad dog Molly
Right on Molly,society is going to hell in a hand basket.. After door to door mail delivery is stopped it won’t be long before society is reminiscent of that in the movie Mad Max.
That’s when Mel Gibson was handsome with long flowing hair. 🙂
Not only is garbage reduced to once a week… they already effectively make the rounds.
Just have the week’s mail to the folks on the route and give the carrier a spot in the truck to drop it off while they’re picking up the trash/green bin.
Prevents a LOT of overhead.
“( and some troll signed me up for macleans but I don’t have to pay for it since I ‘splained it to them and they are investigating the idiot )”
I’d pay to hear that conversation. Did they tell you they mail it to anyone who had dealings with Rogers and if you don’t pay the subscription fee then you’re not actually subscribed? They must have laughed and laughed after you hung up…. I assume you told them it was someone named Nukka and he lives in Ontario as well?
So is this why you hate me? Because you got a Macleans in the mail and assume it has to be from an anonymous troll online. I’d have to say you’re paranoid. Still waiting for another postcard maybe?
** Still physically laughing out loud that someone actually called Maclean’s and reported Nukka. That made my year!!! Hahahahahahaha.
that is pretty funny nukka. why do you think my comment was about you?
^^Seriously? Ummm, because you’ve spouted off at least a half dozen times about me being a troll that signs people up to various magazines. I guess the basis for that was you receiving a Macleans in the mail, lol.
Because seriously, I’ve been on this website for three plus years and my entire plan the whole time was to eventually send you a Macleans subscription. No other subscriptions or junk mail, just a Macleans. Yup, you got me. You got me good.
methinks he doth protest too much. bud, I dialled a random number and you picked up the phone. you spend WAY too much time thinking about me. don’t you find that creepy?
Yup, you got me. You got me good. I think of you every time I get junk mail. Then I dial random numbers and hope that you’ll be on the other end.
Now I’m off to call the folks at Val-U-Pac coupons to say someone named Bad dog molly signed me up for them. I can’t wait for them to investigate that! Also, I’m calling Pizza Hut too. I’ve noticed an increase in their flyers lately.
you can sign me up for pizza hut fake deliveries if you want – I have a thing for pepperoni lovers
You should be careful with that, Molly. I wouldn’t want anyone to get a yeast infection from pepperoni.