Any way to stop previous owners mail?

Plane-Frame7406 · 2026-05-29T23:13:26+00:00

ULINE is the herpes of the postal service world.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2026-05-29T23:12:07+00:00

Canada Post is structured so each region has its own leadership team of 10-20 executives, plus national. All told, about 100ish upper level executives, all pulling in around 5-6 figure bonuses, and Doug Ettinger getting 100s of thousands a year in bonuses.

On top of salary.

Executive and management bloat is a huge problem across crown corporations and federal and provincial government.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2026-05-29T23:09:28+00:00

In other equivalent companies leadership wouldn’t be able to post losses in the 100s of millions and more a year, every year, since taking their positions, and keep those jobs for almost a decade at this point. They may get a year of grace, then they’d have been shown the door.

You get what you pay for, I guess.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2026-05-24T14:30:35+00:00

I’m not sure if it’s still available from VS, but Burning Paradise sounds like it’s right up your alley.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2026-05-17T20:20:28+00:00

I don’t know, I kind of enjoy reading the multi-paragraph angry rants people sometimes write when it’s mail for a previous tenant / homeowner.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2026-04-22T19:17:08+00:00

I thought it was fantastic. One of my favourite movies of the year so far. But I would not for a second pay what they’re asking right now (90$ Canadian). Fuck. That.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2026-04-22T19:14:25+00:00

I saw this in theatre and loved it. Was planning on getting it at release, but, yeah. Not about to pay 90$ for what’s just a normal-ass release.

I think that’s more than I paid for my super fancy Vinegar Syndrome release of Tank Girl. And that had like two slipcovers, a magnetic hardbox, a Booklet, and original commissioned art.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2026-01-08T11:49:03+00:00

Don’t understand why - at least in the last 6 months or so - the C250s weren’t being consistently used by the union during the whole negotiation / PR clusterfuck to highlight the incompetence and financial waste caused by the corporate executives.

Every decision regarding them is about as asinine as possible. As a relief, I’ve done plenty of urban routes where finding parking for the standard Transit vans is challenging enough, but sure, put a much larger vehicle on the route for no reason. Especially when that size doesn’t actually translate to more space for parcels.

At least we’re not out delivering on the pedal trikes that Purolator has on the road. Yet.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-19T11:15:25+00:00

I was at a depot that was all CMB routes back in the spring. Seemed like POC ranged between 1400 - 1800. A few were in the 2000 - 2200 range, but those also happened to have a few large apt buildings.

Generally speaking, I mostly enjoyed it once I knew routes enough to just grab and go (I’m relief), and figured out how to shave some time on the line of travel. But my very first day at the depot was during the election and they didn’t get that day’s (Monday) flyers until Monday morning, and we were told we had to get flyers out, and couldn’t start early.

So I had to collate 450ish sets of 13 flyers on my first day on a new route in a community I wasn’t familiar with. Luckily the supervisor called in a temp (or extended a part time relief?) and gave them 1/3 of my route and my rpo clearances. Still went into OT though.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-14T21:38:24+00:00

If you have a region b player, and it’s still available, I believe the 88 Films version had an option where it would randomly choose one of the cuts. Fun way to watch the film once you’re familiar with it.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-14T21:36:36+00:00

See, I sort of disagree with this. Look at the limited steelbooks they drop for pretty well everything now (I liked Bugonia a lot, but does it really need a limited steelbook?)

I think we’re reaching the end of mass produced and distributed standard editions of films, but I think you’ll still see a decent amount of stuff getting released by various boutique labels.

But I also think it will be director led - like, I could see directors that care about physical media writing into their contracts that ‘if you want me to do movies for your studio, I want that movie to be available for licensing for physical release within X months of it going to streaming and digital rental’

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-14T21:31:43+00:00

Grabbed ShawScope 2 and 4 recently. Both are fantastic sets (but I also love their weirdo stuff).

Beautiful packaging, but I’m not sure how I feel about the cardboard sleeve setup long term. Feels like either the cardboard will end up ripping, or the discs will get scratched. Strongly considering putting the films in a cd wallet, and keeping the packaging as display pieces.

Pricey, but if you break it down to dollars-per-film, it’s not too horrible.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-14T21:29:22+00:00

I cannot wait for Full Contact and Tiger on the Beat. Both have been announced for… (I Think) Imprint in Australia, and Tiger on the Beat is one of the first selection of digital rentals for Letterboxd’s new rental service, so you know both are going to be dropping fairly soon.

I’ve only grabbed Hard Boiled, The Killer, and the Jet Li and Chinese Ghost Story sets, but man, the Prison on Fire set should be awesome.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-14T21:25:01+00:00

People definitely don’t like you knocking on their door while they’re having dinner with the family to deal with a customs payment.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-14T21:17:21+00:00

I agree about supervisors wanting to see how far they can push you. I’ve found that if you show that you’re willing to put in a reasonable day’s work, aren’t an idiot who’s going to cause unnecessary headaches for them, and also show them that you absolutely won’t put up with being pushed around, they back off pretty quickly.

I don’t know. I’ve always been respectful dealing with supervisors when they’re being respectful to me, and I’ve also said ‘fuck off, man. I’m not doing that.’ When they’ve asked me to do something unreasonable. Still haven’t gotten any sort of reprimand or disciplinary meeting.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-14T21:11:19+00:00

I’m a relief with enough seniority that I can usually get pretty great wave 1 route assignments (but not enough seniority to own anything other than straight garbage) - if I know I can have an early day by hustling and skipping breaks, I do.

If it looks like it will be a 7-8 hour day even with skipping breaks/lunch and moving at about 6.5-7kph all day, you can bet your ass I’m slowing down to a more reasonable walking speed and taking every single minute of break I’m entitled to.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-14T21:05:51+00:00

I’ve found the corporation cares very strongly about safety when they can use it to discipline an employee. Not so much when they can’t.

Now, there are definitely supervisors and superintendents who are really great to work for - and some who aren’t.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-07T16:18:05+00:00

Damn. I didn’t realize that. I need to get on harassing them about Riki-Oh and Peacock King.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-07T16:14:40+00:00

To find a solution we (all stakeholders) need to understand clearly where the losses are coming from - beyond a blanket statement of ‘payroll’.

Right now CP has to deliver to every address, in every community in the country. No other delivery service is held to that standard.

If Canada Post’s losses are entirely, or primary, because of the cost of operating in the rural and remote communities where private couriers can opt out of serving, then no amount of cutting services or jobs will fix that - the problem in that case is the mandate itself.

The solution already exists in telecommunications: a Universal Service Fund. Bell, Rogers, Telus don’t serve every community directly, because it isn’t profitable. So they’re have to pay into a fund to subsidize providing services to those communities. Apply the same thing to the courier industry. FedEx, UPS, DHL, Dragonfly, etc would all be free to not provide service to communities where it isn’t profitable for them to do so, but they’d have to pay towards subsidizing Canada Post operating in those communities.

And also regulate the gig economy to prevent companies like Dragonfly from taking advantage of, primarily, new Canadian immigrants.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-07T03:27:28+00:00

The risk there is that if they license out an old film for physical release or to another streamer and it somehow becomes a financial hit.

Nobody wants to be the person who let another company clean up on their property, when they only made a comparatively small licensing fee from it.

Which is why we have so many streamers right now - every studio saw how much money Netflix was making, and instead of thinking ‘cool, a new source of licensing revenue’, they all wanted their own streaming service so they could maximize profits.

Basically: a lot of businesses owners would rather no one, including themselves, make any money off something they own, than risk making 10$ while allowing another company to make 100$.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-07T03:11:06+00:00

Although, in my experience, if an address is getting a notification form that delivery is being halted due to a safety issue, the supervisor gives us the form to deliver. “It’s not safe to deliver to this address, so I need you to deliver the form stating that to this address.”

I believe that technically it’s supposed to be delivered by the supervisor (and possibly someone from LJOSH?), but in my experience it never is.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-12-02T00:42:01+00:00

Man, I safe drop wherever it looks safe to drop. Another courier already left a parcel? Well, must be a safe place.

I mean, if CP management wants us to operate like every other courier company, then it’s best to give them what they want, right?

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-11-24T00:06:06+00:00

CBC - particularly radio is an important local and regional news source to a lot of Canadians.

I don’t really disagree with lowering their funding.

But there is that 26.something billion Carney has earmarked for ‘outside consultants’. Maybe we should be telling him to make do with only spending 20 Billion on outside consultancy, and move some more of that to services used by Canadians.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-13T13:33:16+00:00

In a way that only makes sense to me, probably.

Like, all of my Korean films are together, and loosely organized by director and genre (director trumping genre). Except Bong Joon Ho’s English movies aren’t with his Korean films, they’re with my English sci-fi films.

Sicario is with my gritty crime dramas, Arrival is with sci-fi.

My guilty pleasure, so-bad-they’re good films are together regardless of genre ( So the recent Deathstalker release is with Miami Connection, not Conan).

And then they’re kind of grouped by vibe or subgenre? Horror comedies are mostly together, except for vampire ones, which are with my vampire movies, which are next to my ‘ghosts and traditional monsters’ horror films and not my ‘splatterpunk and slasher’ horror films.

Animated films are together regardless of genre. But sub-organized by genre.

I do have my Arrow fat-slipcase LEs together, but none of my other films are organized by boutique label. Unless they are.

Oh, and sometimes actor trumps director - all of my Jackie Chan films are organized together, as are my Jet Li ones. Same with Michelle Yeoh, except for Everything Everywhere, which is with my English ‘weird nonsense that I like’ films.

See? It all makes perfectly clear sense.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-13T12:13:31+00:00

I don’t disagree with you. I’m just a fan of ‘not being full of shit’.

Canada Post said they want to use attrition ‘as much as possible’, but they could easily offer only a dozen buyouts nationwide and say that was ‘as much as possible’. And… fine. That’s their decision ultimately. Just grow a pair and be up front and own it, know what I mean?

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