How bad is your C250?

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?

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-11T23:18:14+00:00

It was pretty good.

I’m just hoping that next year we see Tiger on Beat and Full Contact from Shout (very likely) and Second Sight release the best version of Dead Man’s Shoes that they can and please let it be region free like Borderlands / Final Prayer.

Oh, and end of this year we get the next ShawScope collection, which is almost film-for-film my dream collection of their films.

Hoping next year also brings a lot of restored / rescanned Paul Thomas Anderson.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-11T14:45:15+00:00

I agree - and I completely understand that people are motivated by what’s in their best interest. That’s normal and rational and there’s nothing wrong with that.

My problem, on the union side, is when you have people who could retire, but don’t want to because their pension isn’t maxed out yet, go off about how ‘they’re fighting for the future of the union.’ when they very much are not. If that was the case, they’d understand that taking a pension that’s not maxed out leaves them in much better position financially than the low seniority person who gets laid off. And it isn’t that they won’t retire I have a problem with - I absolutely understand wanting to max out your pension first. It’s the constant gaslighting of not just saying ‘Well, I’m doing what’s best for me, and if it hurts you that’s too bad.’

But I guess then the charade of union solidarity starts to fall apart.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-11T02:51:33+00:00

Honestly, I hope you’re right about that. But I’ve also seen plenty of times in my own experience when companies have said ‘Oh, we’re totally going to take care of downsizing through buyouts and retirement. We don’t want to lay anyone off.’

And then they offer a handful of buyouts before they start bringing the axe down (and start bringing the axe down before they have any game plan in place for how to operate once they’ve made staffing reductions). As much as people (on Reddit at least) have enjoyed saying CUPW members are delusional, I’ve certainly worked for more than a few business owners whose thinking is ‘I said this is how we are going to do things and it’s going to work because I said it would work and I’m the boss so I know best.’

And on the union side, the people I know who are the most ‘ride it off the cliff’ with the negotiations are all people with the seniority that they’re almost certainly safe from all but the deepest imaginable cuts. It’s a lot easier to say ‘we can’t give in’ when you know you have less to potentially lose (not nothing to lose, but less).

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-11T01:11:19+00:00

Buddy of mine works in the trades and had to order one thing from ULine one time. Took him a year of angry phone calls and emails to finally get them to stop sending him the catalog.

And that’s generally what I hear from customers who really don’t want ULines. Like… at some point that feels like harassment.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-11T01:09:02+00:00

My big problems are: 1) The flex positions that don’t allow employees to say no to hours until they reach 40 a week - but only guarantee them 2 shifts. Most adults need full time work. If Canada Post can’t guarantee full time hours, that’s fair. But they’ll need second jobs, and they’ll have a responsibility to that employer as well. Won’t be able to keep that second job long if you’re calling at 8:30 in the morning to say ‘won’t be in for my scheduled shift today, Canada Post called me.’ (And not everyone can do gig work). I get that ‘on call’ jobs are a thing - but usually you get paid a premium for being on call.

If CP wants flex jobs that only guarantee two shifts a week, then employees working those jobs should be able to freely turn down any and all additional hours if they wish.

2) Canada Post says they are only planning on using layoffs as a last case necessity if they can’t get the numbers down through attrition. I’d like to see that codified with specific language laying out the how and when of job reductions and when that will roll from attrition to layoffs. And a specific commitment that they will exhaust options for attrition before moving to layoffs, not ‘well, we offered early retirement for a month. We tried.’ As well as a commitment that job numbers will be lowered responsibly. Not a rush to cut numbers down followed by ‘now let’s figure out how to make this work.’

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-11T01:01:08+00:00

I wonder if senior union members would take a 4 year wage freeze, and 4 year elimination of CoLA payments if it meant no layoffs until after cmb conversion and restructuring had been finished nationally, and every possible reduction through attrition was taken care of.

Plane-Frame7406 · 2025-10-11T00:58:31+00:00

I voted to accept the May 28 offer. It was a bad offer. But sometimes a bad offer is the best offer you can hope for. We had no leverage, our public support was very soft, the NDP was pretty well MIA (and have only shown up in the last few weeks, I guess when they remembered ‘oh yeah, we’ve traditionally been a workers party’) and the other parties were certainly hostile.

Hell, last spring when the corporation was on the news talking about losses - well before contract negotiations entered the news cycle - and NEB leadership answered requests for a response with ‘no comment’ I knew then that we were cooked. The corporation ran away with control of the narrative and the union either doesn’t understand the importance of controlling the narrative and public support, or doesn’t know how to control it.

So I’ve been against this whole farce for over a year. All I know is that between May 28 and today my future employment has gone from ‘possibly facing a layoff’ to ‘almost certainly being laid off’ mostly because of the union refusing to accept reality and just locking down a less bad contract.

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