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A story about Canada Post trying to deliver mail 68 years after it’s posted.

Source here: It’s in the mail – 68 years later.

Now I’m sure there are a few competent people at Canada Post and sometimes Express Post works well but regular post form the US takes up to three weeks sometimes which can’t be explained away by customs and there are just too many stories of stupidity and incompetence coming out of that outfit.

Some other examples:

1 – Tall Order (this one really irks me, an 80 year old on oxygen can go up a 12″ inch step but the unionized postal worker won’t).

2 – To Anyone, Anytime

3 – My Canada Post Guy is a Retard

My conclusion is that unions flip up everything.

Let me ask you, how do you spend 4 hours screaming (logically) at two grown ups and they still don’t flipping get it?

Some context, I work for a software development company, my boss comes in and asks me to develop a new feature for an upcoming demo that’s completely out of scope for our current development cycle. I don’t want to do it because it’s going to impact our delivery schedule.

What ensued was a running screaming battle that lasted all day, it went something like this…
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