OT: Canadians asked to accept spam?!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 06:57:25PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> Petty good observations.  I think too that a natural carrier is necessary
> in order  not to disadvantage those far away from cities.
> 
> Sure, private carriers can provide the service, but they would either
> ignore the sparsely populated regions or charge them steeply.  That may be
> fine with most but I  don't see how it would be net positive to the
> economy.  Government are supposed to be effective, while private industry
> thrives on efficiency. Somehow those two are exclusive to each other.

One could legitimately question if it is economical to have people live
in remote places.  How is that a benefit to the economy?

> Partially agree, the franchise model do allow for increased availability.
> Would be hard to open that many offices for that long - they are open till
> 9 PM - without costing them serious money.
> 
> The problem with language has also to do with cost. If they pay well, then
> the job would attract those with perfect language skills. But I guess that
> would drive the mailing cost up, so willing to work with them. Heck I have
> horrible accent too, so I guess I can't criticize anybody for sounding
> funny.

I can't recall having encountered language problems at a post office
counter.  Must be other parts of Toronto I haven't had to use the post
office in.

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Len Sorensen
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