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Who will remember post mail door-to-door delivery from Canada Post?

This will soon be the thing of past as instead of getting your mail delivered to your house you will have to walk to a community mail box to pick up your mail.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/AL ... story.html

While Canada Post is doing that, they'll also increase postage rates big time as well. :dizzy: :bang:
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Robbie wrote:Who will remember post mail door-to-door delivery from Canada Post?

This will soon be the thing of past as instead of getting your mail delivered to your house you will have to walk to a community mail box to pick up your mail.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/AL ... story.html

While Canada Post is doing that, they'll also increase postage rates big time as well. :dizzy: :bang:
Most people in this country already only have memories of mail delivery to their doors, if they ever had it to begin with. As the article notes, 2/3rds of Canadians already have some form of community mailbox pickup anyway.
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I guess what I'll remember is a time when I didn't worry about my mail being stolen from one of those "Stupor Boxes". I like the fact that it goes in my door and out of harms way . Canada Post is a dinosaur of sorts. If they are going to take away my home delivery, they had better take away the bulk mail too. All I want are those things specifically addressed to me. If I am going to be paying more for mail service, then it should consist of the things I want and need, not the piles of junk that I get blessed with because it helps Canada Post and their bottom line.
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My German Shepherd will be disappointed at no more chasing after the mailman :wink:
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I have long thought that we did not need mail everyday. I am sure that instead of going to boxes, they could save a lot of money by only delivering twice a week. Possibly even save more.
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Its another thing I thought would not change but it has. I know quite a few people without a landline phone now.

My mail has been delivered to a 'superbox' for awhile. I would say that 98% of the stuff that ends up in my mailbox just gets dumped into the bluebox for recycling......
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KnowItAll wrote:I have long thought that we did not need mail everyday. I am sure that instead of going to boxes, they could save a lot of money by only delivering twice a week. Possibly even save more.
No sure about you, but my Friday mail rarely consists of anything but a flyer or two. I am almost certain that there is already a measure of what you are asking for being applied by the mailmen themselves.
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Rammer wrote:
KnowItAll wrote:I have long thought that we did not need mail everyday. I am sure that instead of going to boxes, they could save a lot of money by only delivering twice a week. Possibly even save more.
No sure about you, but my Friday mail rarely consists of anything but a flyer or two. I am almost certain that there is already a measure of what you are asking for being applied by the mailmen themselves.
I too have wondered about that, but it would still save them having to go through the motion of making deliveries every day.
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I mean no offence to people who are religious,
I, on the other hand, do like to offend the religious. Just ask around! :yahoo:
a truly religious person cannot be offended.
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when you could travel from Toronto to Vancouver on a welfare check and still have money left over for food
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Anyone remember the last time Vancouver had a public New Year's Eve celebration with a countdown clock and fireworks?

No New Year’s Eve fireworks for Vancouver this year
CTV Vancouver
Published Thursday, October 9, 2014 9:47AM PDT
Last Updated Thursday, October 9, 2014 8:00PM PDT

Vancouverites will have to wait until December 31, 2015 to see the return of a large-scale New Year’s Eve celebration in the city’s downtown.

The Vancouver New Year’s Eve Celebration Society had been planning a family-friendly party and midnight fireworks show at Jack Poole Plaza to ring in 2015, but it has decided to cancel the event after failing to raise the necessary funds to put it on.

“We fell short of our fundraising goal of approximately $300,000 to be able to host what we would feel most comfortable with that would match the expectations that Vancouverites would have of a New Year’s Eve celebration on the Waterfront,” society chairman Charles Gauthier told CTV News.

That doesn’t mean the idea is dead, however. Gauthier said the society now plans to hold its first New Year’s Eve celebration next year.

The society raised about two-thirds of its $300,000 goal, he said, and it is seeking corporate partners to provide the rest.

Gauthier said his group is disappointed that it didn’t meet its funding goal, but pleased with the things it did accomplish, including garnering the support of the city and the police department, which will have to provide some coverage for the event on an already busy night.

“I’m really buoyed by the support that we have from the members around the table that have said, ‘We’re in this for next year,’” he said.
Reminder: Vancouver’s planned NYE celebration cancelled
CTV Vancouver
Published Tuesday, December 30, 2014 1:17PM PST
Last Updated Tuesday, December 30, 2014 7:27PM PST

New Year’s Eve revelers are welcome to gather in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday night, but they shouldn’t hold their breath for fireworks or a countdown clock.

That’s because the first large-scale New Year’s Eve party planned in Vancouver for years was called off due to a lack of funding, ensuring the “No-Fun City” reputation will last at least into 2015.

Organizers at the Vancouver New Year’s Eve Celebration Society said they fell about $100,000 short of their $300,000 fundraising goal, but they’re still hoping to throw a bash next Dec. 31.

City councillor George Affleck said it’s a shame Vancouverites will have to wait yet another year to celebrate the way cities around the world do.

“Halifax, Toronto, Montreal, even Victoria, they hold downtown celebrations and we are not holding anything formal in any way in Vancouver, and to me that’s embarrassing,” Affleck said.

“As a major city we should be doing a good party downtown. We can do it, we’ve proven it with the Grey Cup, let’s do it on New Year’s Eve now.”

The free event, which was announced last December, was going to take place at Jack Poole Plaza and involve fireworks, live music and entertainment, food carts, exhibits, and a lighting of the Olympic Cauldron.

Affleck said the city could do a lot to help ensure it happens next year, including offsetting policing costs.

People looking for another free event can check out the annual family-friendly celebration at Robson Square, where there’ll be ice skating, a DJ, and a countdown at 9 p.m. so kids can go to bed early.
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Mayor Moonbeam and his Vision council is more concerned with putting in more bicyle lanes
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fine with me if Vancouver is considered no fun city. Too many people here. Happy to see other not come and some here leave. Get the word out. Vancouver sucks. Go somewhere else.

On another note. It is sad that people feel that they have to get together in large groups with lots of noise and fancy lights and booze and yelling, etc, in order to have fun.

Never needed any of that to have loads of fun on New Years, or any other day.
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TheLionKing wrote:Mayor Moonbeam and his Vision council is more concerned with putting in more bicyle lanes
I'm no Gregor fan either but it's not all on him. In searching for the answer to the question I posed, I found this G&M from Dec 2013, when plans for last night's (aborted) festivities were first announced, which says we haven't had a real public NYE event since 1992, which is like... four or five mayors ago?

Vancouver plans first city-backed New Year’s Eve event in two decades – but not this year
Andrea Woo
Vancouver — The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Dec. 12 2013, 4:34 PM EST
Last updated Thursday, Dec. 12 2013, 6:03 PM EST

“No Fun City” is cautiously planning to have fun at the end of next year.

Vancouver will host a large New Year’s Eve celebration at Jack Poole Plaza on Dec. 31, 2014, the city announced on Thursday. It will be the first city-backed New Year’s Eve event in more than two decades.

The free, family-friendly event will include live music, fireworks and children’s activities – similar to annual Canada Day celebrations – as well as a televised countdown at midnight.

Mayor Gregor Robertson joined officials from the newly established Vancouver New Year’s Eve Celebration Society in announcing the party at Thursday’s media event.

“Every year, in late December, the messages start flooding in, the questions come up: Why don’t we have a New Year’s Eve celebration?” he said.

“Now we will. It’s waiting a little bit longer, but it is coming.”

Kenneth Chan, deputy editor at Vancouver news, lifestyle and entertainment blog Vancity Buzz, set the wheels in motion about a year ago when he sent friend and blog editor Karm Sumal a lengthy e-mail about hosting a New Year’s Eve celebration.

“I was like, ‘This guy is serious,’ ” Mr. Sumal said. “He had looked at funding, what we need to do, who we need to talk to.”

The two spoke with Gregory Hegger at brand.LIVE – the event production company behind the Celebration of Light fireworks competition and the Squamish Valley Music Festival – and created the society, which now counts the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, Tourism Vancouver and other organizations among members.

At Thursday’s event, Mr. Robertson thanked Mr. Sumal for his “spark and initiative in getting this going.”

“If you have any ideas for the Broadway subway, we should talk,” the Mayor said to laughter.

It’s not yet known what the event will cost. Brand.LIVE will develop the budget over the next few months and “go to different community groups and stakeholders to match that budget,” Mr. Hegger said.

Mr. Robertson said council will consider the city’s share once a proposal is prepared.

“Typically, with other big festivals, the city has support in the hundreds of thousands,” he said. “A lot of that support is in kind, to make sure the event is well-run and managed on the street. It depends on the scale of the event as [it] rolls out and attracts other sponsors. The city is only one of many partners in this.”

It is believed the last city-backed New Year’s Eve event took place in 1992, at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Called First Night, the family event included road closures, fireworks, musical performances and crafts and an early countdown for children, said Paul Sontz, manager of cultural tourism for Tourism Vancouver. First Night ended that year for financial reasons.

Since then, Tourism Vancouver has received countless letters from residents and visitors alike inquiring about New Year’s celebrations, Mr. Sontz said.

“Out here on the west coast, we’re one of the last cities in the world to celebrate the turning of the year,” he said. “Now when the media turns to Vancouver, we’ll have a New Year’s celebration worthy of this city.”
LOL... "it is believed", as if it were so long ago... as if it were before there was any television or radio to document it, and all we have left to go on now are the second-hand accounts of people who have vague recollections of once hearing about it long ago from those who actually attended but are all now long since dead. "Yeah, I think Grampa said it happened in '92, but I could be wrong, it might have been 1991."

For Y2K New Year's 15 years ago, I was in St. John's, NL and they did it up right with over 100k people — more than the entire city population — gathered for a huge party on the waterfront complete with fireworks at midnight and a ton of live bands. It went well into the wee hours. We didn't even get home until like 5am (12:30am west coast time) but when we did we flipped on the tv and saw a video montage of cross-country civic new year's celebrations. Every major city was featured, including among others Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, but when they got to BC all they had to show was a calm, deserted night time shot of Science World that could just as easily have been from the night before, and footage of a bunch of hosers at some house party somewhere out in Tofino. Everyone else was like, "Where's Vancouver?" while I facepalmed.
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