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Now that Canada Postoleros have been ordered back to work (again) it behooves me to write about something that happened to me the other day: I was at my community mailbox, checking to see if any mail seeped through that annoying rotating fiasco and lo and behold there was: Flyers. (Not rain nor sleet nor snow will stop Canada Pest from delivering junk even in strike mode.)

Now, I have always thought it fundamentally wrong that Canada Post serves its coffers by polluting taxpayers’ mail boxes with instant paper recyclables. (They should have blue boxes at every community mailbox site.) So, what I started to do was take it a few inches straight to the fresh mail slot and dumping it back at the mail carrier. (Small victory for a small mind, whatever.)

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A neighbour saw what I did and came up to me and said, “A guy here did that a few years ago and the postman stopped delivering the mail. So, don’t do that.”

I was going to say, “So, I am the one solely responsible for the rotating strikes,” but instead told him I would desist on behalf of my fellow citizens. (Something that arrogant postal union employee could not do.)