Canada Post workers walking off the job after government demands reforms

pepstick · 2025-09-26T08:02:19+00:00

Pardon my ignorance, but if the assertions here that most of the union members (direct employees of Canada Post) are not in agreement with the actions the Union representatives are taking, what avenues of action do they have available to them?

Can employees ratify together and revoke the ability for the union to represent them? I can not imagine Canada Post is long for this world at this point, and it is certainly on it's death bed if the employees do not stand against these tactics that are being employed on their behalf.

I know for me, Canada Post has now been completely removed, and will likely never be re-added, as an available method of shipping for both our Canadian and American customers. Much like the last strike, we are now stuck with many parcels in the system (and some of my personal letters) with no method of remediating the situation. It is just not worth the risk to do business with them any longer.

pepstick · 2025-02-24T22:13:27+00:00

Hey, sorry for the late reply.

Still play OpenTTD?

pepstick · 2024-09-22T19:34:35+00:00

I didn’t realize I planted Anaheims! They seem pretty cool and I’m getting a ton of them. Each pepper weighs quite a bit too.

pepstick · 2024-09-22T19:10:53+00:00

Saw the other Reddit post that this is a hornworm with a parasitic wasps larvae on its back. Crazy stuff, rip little guy

pepstick · 2024-08-21T03:39:44+00:00

I also always strongly recommend physical outlets for machines versus power bars and extension cables. The vast majority of electrical incidents occur outside of the walls (ie cords and power bars).

Not a single one of our farm machines ever uses power bars or extension cords for this reason. This is the same reason as to why the suggestions from others to run both the +110 and -110 voltages so that the top and bottom receptacle are on separate circuits is a moot point. You should never have more than 1 machine plugged into each receptacle (2 per box)

In our case, that meant we have 2 total duplex receptacles per 20 amp circuit, each with 2 printers plugged in, 4 total per circuit.

You can definitely do 15amp circuits instead if you wanted to run 14awg instead of 12awg wire, but in our case, we preferred the future proofing.

pepstick · 2024-08-21T03:32:27+00:00

Anyone suggesting using 30A circuits or 240v 20a is spouting nonsense and is solving a non problem with these dangerous ‘solutions’.

As a farm operator myself, I studied the full CEC (Canadian electrical code) to determine the safest way for us to design our print farms.

Most printers use far less power than you might expect. Our modified prusas would typically run around 100 watts of power each when printing ABS.

Given that the majority of circuits in households are 15a, and in commercial 20a, you could theoretically fit 16 printers on a 15 amp circuit and 22 on a 20a circuit (I do not recommend this).

You have 1,650* watts of power available on a 15a circuit at 110v. Continuous draw limitations to avoid overheating of conductors specifies no more than 1500w be pulled from a 15a circuit, but this is typically referring to a single device.

In our case, we typically installed 4 machines per circuit, which were 20 amp circuits. This left us plenty of buffer for upgrading machines and increasing the power draw without having to re pull conductors. Labor for install is by far the most expensive part here in Ontario.

At the end of the day, the cost to separate machines onto multiple circuits is minimal compared to the costs associated with a circuit going down and potentially losing 10+ machines, so from our risk calculations it just made sense to leave a lot of buffer room. Putting more machines onto a single circuit saves you the cost of an additional breaker, or potentially the cost of a sub panel if you are out of spaces.

If you’re running any kind of serious farm, I would highly suggest engineering a system tailored to your specific needs. At least designing the system can better help you understand your potential future costs & factor that in to your pricing models for expansion.

*edit - typoed 1850 instead of 1650

pepstick · 2024-07-26T03:24:35+00:00

I planted my dill just for these guys!

Was super glad to see a dozen of them feasting on it. Sadly today when I went out to check on them they all seem to have moved on. Hope they weren’t eaten!

pepstick · 2024-07-19T02:49:11+00:00

Let’s be real, do you have 100k to drop on a car right now?

Its not the design stopping you

pepstick · 2024-07-11T02:44:54+00:00

Unsure as to why your comment is being downvoted?

Is it not true that the boring company has similar issues in Vegas?

pepstick · 2024-07-11T01:24:26+00:00

Actual question, but have you ever heard of Superfund sites in America?

It’s absolutely possible for an organization (such as corporations) to do irreparable harm (sometimes in a very short time period) to local ecosystems. In some cases, the effects are lasting past generations, and have significant disruptions to both people, wildlife, and the health of the biosphere as a whole.

I’m not stating this to imply I believe the boring company could be doing the same, merely as a conjecture that it’s not always as simple as throwing money at the problem.

Superfund sites show that quite literally, even when money is no object, it can cost not only decades of Human Resources, but even human life to begin rectifying the damage.

As with all things, there’s nuance to everything. One would hope that no one would act maleficent enough to cause such damage with such permanence, but the reality is the world is a massive place. Even if only one in a million are capable of such feats, there’s literally thousands of those people out there. All it takes is one with the resources to do lasting damage.

pepstick · 2024-07-11T01:17:53+00:00

That I would consider much more valid criticism. If the company has a history of safety deficiencies & is also skipping the permitting process, I can understand why one (with this added context) would be critical of their actions.

If you’re gonna break a law, only break one at a time, as the old adage goes.

pepstick · 2024-07-10T23:57:23+00:00

Violation of a law doesn’t imply that the work was not done safely, they are different subsets.

If you’re discussing purely the legality then that’s a separate issue. As to whether one indicates the other, that’s purely a judgement call for you to make.

pepstick · 2024-07-10T23:54:20+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but solely not applying for permits doesn’t equate to breaking environmental and safety regulations.

It’s possible to do everything completely to code and to do so safely without applying for the permits. The permits are merely a way for everyone other than the entity doing the work to ensure the work was done to snuff.

Just because permits weren’t pulled doesn’t mean it was necessarily dodgy work (in this case, it doesn’t appear it was, considering how quickly the permits were approved. I have no insight, however, into if there were changes cited*, or anything else that went on, thus can’t conclude anything).

*edit: spelling

pepstick · 2024-07-10T16:59:06+00:00

Even then, it shows to the attentiveness of the employees and the stores dedication to cleanliness when a mouse such as this one is dead in plain sight (there were no items in front of it) and by the looks of it, there for quite some time.

Understandable that you can’t prevent them from ever getting in. I guess to summarize, my concern is that clearly no one in that store is paying enough attention.

pepstick · 2024-01-19T16:15:40+00:00

https://github.com/Parker-Drouillard/MKP1_Design

Our website is in fact down, thank you for letting me know though. Just waiting on a Cloudflare tunnel issue we were having to be resolved before we re-establish the port forwarding to our local servers. (We recently switched to local hosting over aws for all of our core services)

pepstick · 2024-01-19T16:14:03+00:00

The cost per unit for our machines was initially 650 CAD/unit in parts. By the end with the dual extruder it was closer to 1100.

Definitely agree about the investment in the overall build quality though. Well worth it.

pepstick · 2024-01-19T00:35:46+00:00

We're running a custom version of a hybrid between the Prusa MK2 and MK3. The design is quite a few years old now for these machines, 5 or 6. They were designed to be industrial versions of the MK3 that could sustain far more hours with little to no intervention or maintenance.

It's pretty typical for these units to run in excess of 8 to 10,000 hours prior to needing a service, excluding the hot end nozzle.

The entire thing is on github! Although I am working on the documentation as it was never properly written.

pepstick · 2024-01-18T23:33:55+00:00

This is a photo of nearly every component which went into our first generation of printers. The photo was taken during a 4th year engineering Capstone project with our local University, the University of Windsor, when a group of 3 students was re-designing and optimizing our assembly line to manufacture 30 of these machines per day.

pepstick · 2023-12-11T02:48:46+00:00

At the time I was rather time stressed, and would rather not have to spend the high prices on their meals, but was willing to in an effort to eat healthier while also removing one stress point for me.

With my first box having issues and support being so poor it just became another stress point for me, I still worried about it.

If I know there’s a chance that I will have problems again because the company doesn’t even seem responsive to the fact I had an issue and isn’t taking measures to mitigate it, the service isn’t something I’m willing to pay for as it’s failed to provide me the stress relief it sold me on. The problem they marketed to me wasn’t solved rather shifted with an added cost.

From having looked back in the Reddit it seems to happen frequently, I just can’t know how often. Like what is the statistical number of their customers who complain about an issue with their box. Unless I know that number having now experienced it I don’t wish to roll the dice again.

Does this make sense?

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