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Valued Member
Canada
183 Posts |
When Canada Post goes on strike,does this slow down your buying or hopefully make some sellers drop their prices?
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Valued Member
Canada
124 Posts |
Slow down buying yes, but I doubt it'll cause sellers to drop prices. I've got a few things on ebay but I won't lower the prices. I'll just stop selling altogether since I can't mail anything out until Canada Post staff get back to work... |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
Does anyone else think it's stupid to rotate your strikers city to city? Strike or don't strike - this half-butted measure will only make Canadians adapt to the change of having no mail service. Why can't they see that?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
902 Posts |
It may end up as a full blown strike yet.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
I'd love it to a be a full strike. I'm unabashedly technologically skilled and just showed a couple neighbours simple things .... like how to pay their bills online AND how to use an email money transfer.
"Boy this will save me on cheques"
Yes, yes it will.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
902 Posts |
ebay may take a little or a lot longer,but no biggie, maybe the coins will be worth more by the time I get em.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
617 Posts |
I had a delivery of ebay purchases yesterday in Vancouver. I think the point of rotating strikes is that until Canada Post locks everyone out, everyone who shows up for work gets full pay, whether or not they're actually doing anything. The union shows its teeth (as ineffective as that may be) and forces CP management to scramble. It also might push CP to locking out the whole workforce, so the union can then blame CP for no mail. Very 19th Century, but it has a certain appeal to a certain segment of the public. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
Yes, but now all your information is floating around for hackers to grab. And there's no face to attach to the crime. WIth a bank teller you can at least tell the manager he's a dummy.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
Having been a CTO and CEO of tech companies handling your mortgage data, legal data, credit card data and so on for various banking institutions, I assure you that your information is floating around regardless and that dealing with a teller in no way guarantees privacy.
As to having no face to attach to a crime, I can't argue that. We live in a different era and this is how it has become.
In summary, your information is always floating around for hackers to grab no matter how you partake of the retail banking industry. Just to stir the pot, two major banks didn't have decent enough data security standards to connect to our systems and we would not do business with them until they upgraded.
The next time you get a legitimate phone call from a third party on "behalf" of your bank, consider the means by which they got your name and phone number.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 Any word yet on how negotiations are going? I've got a 1900 half stuck at a Post Office out west! Glenn  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1442 Posts |
This wouldn't be the raw AU 1900 50c that sold on ebay recently would it? I slept through that auction and missed it :(... |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1554 Posts |
 Negative Capt. Kirk, it was E-bay I.D. # 110701126071. Someday when transporters are built, we can just beam coins to each other and forget about couriers!! Glenn  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Any word yet on how negotiations are going? I don't think very good.  But, I wish it would get over, I have coins coming and going with nothing moving.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Yeah I have some obligations to fill but I can wait it out. Bob is apparently going to raise heck over sitting on Monday if it goes that long because of the holiday but I don't think he'll have much choice if that's what Harper decides is best.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
902 Posts |
Despite intense negotiations over the past 72 hours, Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have not been able to reach an agreement.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
Well, according to this article at the Globe and Mail they are looking at Friday morning passage of back to work legislation. |
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Posted 05/31/2011 7:58 pm
