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Canada already has that... Just put a "No Junk Mail" or "No Ad Mail" sign on/inside your mailbox and you'll get no more junk mail... Would be a nice feature to have in the USA.

https://www.canadapost.ca/web/...

Agree on the 1/day week thing also, but it would be nice to arrange it so everyone gets the mail the same day.. ("Monday Mail day")... Businesses, notifications, etc could run stuff knowing this. Part time employees or maybe have other public servants do the job(various other public services closed Monday for mail delivery)

In Lee County, Florida(elsewhere I'm sure); They started setting the stage for autonomous vehicles for trash/recycling pickup. Every home is issued 2 special bins that can hold > 300 pounds; The waste truck drives up and large arm comes out of the side/bottom of the truck, reaches 10+ feet to grab the bin, brings it back to truck and dumps it... They were already able to layoff half employees(driver only)... Once they get the driverless part down....... Won't be long..

The same could be done for packages... Automate it with a special dropoff/pickup box/platform(with most being delivered by truck), it could also be a 'standard' dropoff platform designed to discourage theft/weather protection after delivery.

You can place a "No Admail please" note inside your mailbox to stop delivery of unaddressed mail.
Or call and ask them to not send you ad mail and the unaddressed stuff won't even leave the sorting office.
See https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/support/helpcentre/receiving/admail_stop.jsf?ssl=1

I am also in Canada and have not had a problem with the community mailboxes. Every house I've lived in has had them conveniently placed at either a central point or at the intersection.

I do have an issue with the new Canada Post policy that doesn't even attempt delivery of parcels to the house. "We usually attempt to deliver all items directly to you, but in the following situations we leave a Delivery Notice Card instead: If you receive your mail at a community mailbox where your residence is more than 500 m from the mailbox, and the item does not fit in the parcel compartment. "

What this means is when I am expecting delivery of a parcel, they don't even try and deliver it. Instead they leave a pickup notice card in the community mailbox, which indicates that the parcel can be picked up at the Canada Post outlet after 13:00 the next day. (The outlet always seems to be in a Shoppers Drug Mart)

So after work the next day, I drive the 2-5kms to the outlet to pick up a parcel which should have been delivered *to my door* the previous day.

Link to the policy: http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/support/helpcentre/missed_deliveries/no_attempt.jsf

Not only that, but in newly-built areas Canada Post set up "super mailboxes" every couple of streets where you have to pick up the mail instead of having it delivered to your door. It's a minor annoyance, but far from a disaster. Annual delivery costs to those boxes is apparently less than half that of door-to-door. It's one of the cost-saving measures that Canada Post has used to not run huge deficits year after year. The US postal delivery is extravagantly expensive by comparison. No Saturday delivery for regular mail? A very minor loss that we in Canada already accepted something like 40 years ago.

I don't know this as fact, but I would put money on Canada Post charging for these other phone directories to put the postal codes in. Even Geocoder says that Canada Post does this, they quote it being around $5000 per copy of the database.

And Canada Post has an easy to use, comprehensive webpage where you can search for listings.

Whilst I don't necessarily agree that this is a copyright issue (see below), there are a number of problems with your arguments:

The Canadian taxpayer did pay for it, whilst supporting the state funded Canada Post. When companies pay the $5000 to buy the database, that makes it $5000 cheaper for the rest of the Canadian taxpayers to send mail - that money has to be found from somewhere after all. Ergo, net benefit to the Canadian taxpayer.

There isn't a public listing of email addresses - unlike both phone numbers and postal codes. That list you've been selling spammers doesn't count.

I understand that most search engines don't actually contain a copy of the page - merely references too it. Many search engines contain a hash of the page to tell when it's been changed, and keywords associated with the page. But again there's a good to society - people post pages on the 'net because they want society to read them, and search engines allow people to find those pages. The fact that search engines make money from those searches means they can continue to make those searches available to the public.

Whilst telephone numbers are not copyrighted, the phone books that phone companies hand out certainly are. I've heard rumours that the companies put in false data in them, which makes detection of copyright infringement much easier.

As for a free listing where the Canadian taxpaying public can look up address: Try this one Canada Post's own search engine. They even have apps for that.

Having said all that, I agree - I'm not sure how this is a copyright issue. It's obviously not misappropriation of data, because it's crowd sourced data (i.e. they didn't hack into Canada Post and steal it). Royal Mail did a similar thing not so long ago, sued a company for copyright infringement that was serving up UK postcodes. I don't remember how that case turned out.

The only way I can see this is a case for copyright is that copyright is a legal instrument created for the benefit of society by creating a monopoly, and that Canada Post and Royal Mail being able to make money from the databases to lower their costs for the benefit of the taxpayer serves a benefit to society.

Maybe the problem is his business model: he's offering a service that is already available for free. Canada Post had 9,000 volunteers responding to Santa's letters and emails last year. If his competitors offer a similar or better service for free, why would he ever expect anyone to pay for his?

Maybe the problem is his business model: he's offering a service that is already available for free. Canada Post had 9,000 volunteers responding to Santa's letters and emails last year. If his competitors offer a similar or better service for free, why would he ever expect anyone to pay for his?

You're lucky. In Canada Amazon recently switch to UPS from Canada Post. UPS just leaves the package on the door step without even ringing the bell, or knocking. Canada Post was great. We all use community mail boxes anyway, no door-to-door delivery for most new neighbourhoods. Instead you walk (or drive if you're really lazy) about a block away at most, and get your package there. They have an extra large mailbox for packages and they leave the key for that in your mailbox if you have a package. Then you drop the key back in the outgoing mail slot for the carrier to pick up the next day. If your package is too big, they will attempt delivery, and if you aren't home, the leave it as a local postal facility which is usually no more than 2-3 KM away, and located in a pharmacy most of the time, sometimes a corner store. Great system. UPS is terrible for home deliveries. Works great for businesses most of the time, but their residential service is terrible.

Uhmm. Unless the power/phones are out for over a day the inherent delays in sending physical mail will vastly outweigh the time you spend waiting to get a "stamp". Personally I like what we have in Canada, "permanent" stamps, they're good forever. http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/productsservices/atoz/permanentstamp.jsf. So no worry about needing to buy those one penny or whatever stamps the next time rates go up.

You guys have Saturday service? You're kidding. Canada Post dropped that ages ago. They also dropped "to-the-door" service in areas of new construction and expect you to go down the street to "super mailboxes" and pick it up there instead, and the delivery prices continue to rise. Even though the changes have been pretty drastic since they converted it from a government department to a semi-independent "crown corporation" back in the 1980s, and people grumble about the service all the time, it does have the advantage of running a slight net income every year for the last 15, and (gasp) paying taxes on the profit rather than the constant deficits it used to have.

Of course, we're all socialists up here and the geography is different, so I don't expect something like that would ever work in the USA.

Thats a pretty dangerous view to take. Of course, it suits the masses of lazy people who are incapable of thinking for themselves just fine, as well as suiting the people who love to think for them. Just keep on assuming that everyone else is always right. Here, why don't you just drop slashdot and read http://policycanada.blogspot.com/2006/06/youth-for -volpe-i-have-saved-copy.html It'll tell you everything you need to know, without having to hurt your widdle brain cell with any kind of proof or anything.

Or, you could take the time to prove the assertion either way. http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/advanced-e. asp?sblid=pcl

I'll give you a hand, that site can tell you that Belleville has no Main Street.

Another hint, 908 area code's in New Jersey, it's not even Canadian.

Of course, I'm sure that you'll just go on assuming that since what people told you was right this time, it'll be the same every time. It's easier that way.

According to Canada Post's postal code lookup site, the address is bogus.

Yeah, this was international. I looked into that and the cost of mailing a letter quickly (4 business days) was more than Western Union. This is with Xpresspost. Also there is a service fee for the money order. If I didn't have to send it quickly I could have used regular air mail and a money order and that would be cheaper.

"735 Bridge Street West
Waterloo ON
N2V 2H1"

Canada Post says to drop the "west."

735 BRIDGE ST
WATERLOO ON N2V 2H1

Well, by law the USPS is supposed to break even, and as far as I can tell, it has not received any tax dollars for more than a couple of decades (since the 1970s perhaps?). If you google about you can find lots of compalints that the USPS is making too much money and should drop their rates. Similarly Canada Post has been making profits (and PAYING taxes) for the past few years.

Annual report Canada Post $250+million profits - http://www.canadapost.ca/corporate/about/annual_re port/highlights2003-e.asp

Annual report USPS $3+billion profits - http://www.usps.com/history/anrpt03/ This scheme and every scheme that tries to make email cost money or cpu cycles, which is the same thing, is just a way to push the little guy out of the market and replace him with the big guy.

Email DOES cost money, and we all pay for it in our ISP and connection fees. The problem is that bulk emailers use a disproportionate fraction of the resources while not paying a proportionate amount of the costs. This type of proposed scheme creates ecconomic disincentives to sending bulk email. I don't know who these "little guys" are that you are worried about, but I do not want these little guys sending bulk email to me. At least the "big guys" have disincentives to promoting fraudulent crap - the big guys are easy to find and prosecute.

Current turn around time is ~2 1/2 months.....

2 Weeks for HRDC
6 Weeks for CIC
2 Weeks for CPC

M.

Jon Barrett agrees: YOU GOT IT!

this would be a great reason to sue the company to fucking smithereens, but unfortunately it has probably already folded so one couldn't collect anything.

What? Sue Canada Post to smithereens? Canada's national mail service, owned by the Government of Canada? Actually, counting the national debt, the finances of the company are in the red by about $500 billion, which is not unlike most dot-coms.

Oh well... one can always visit the homes of its boardmembers with a cigar-cutter, mafia-style, and make yourself a nice necklace of fingers

Let me give you the address of the Chairman: 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. You can't miss it; it's the one with big tall gates, security cameras, and badass RCMP everywhere.

Actually us Canadians prefer to express our displeasure non-lethally, with pies in the face and such. But don't get too close, he's been known to personally handle protesters by the neck. Probably something he learned from watching Hockey Night in Canada.

Every Canadian knows Santa Claus lives in Canada!

As described in this official Canada Post news release, Santa's address is:

Santa Claus
North Pole HOH OHO
Canada

This has been a public service announcement.

Quebec is both PQ AND QC, according to Canada Post anyway..

And, for the record, the majority of MY isps have ended with .CA and/or had "MB" in them..



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Hi,
The same quesiton could be asked for Canada. You can buy a book with the postal codes and type it in and it is legitimate. You can also pay for it of course (CanadaPost.ca - To order a Postal Code directory)

In the case of geographic data, I first turned to both mapblast and mapquest and after a few telephones, it turned out they would charge as much as 1$ per city for lattitude/longitude data.

Spent some more time on the phone and after 15 minutes, I got a government agency that would sell me the whole QC province information in any format I wished (access, DB, SQL dump, etc) for ~ 20$. How do you explain that?

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