ridiculous

Su-Yin · 06-01-2005, 06:55 PM

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Canada's post office is threatening to stop mail deliveries to a woman in Ottawa because her doorstep is 10 centimetres too high.
Christine Charbonneau said when she went to check her mail last Friday she found a Canada Post employee measuring her doorstep. He told her it was 30cm high - 10cm more than the maximum limit specified by building regulations.

"I said it was ridiculous to say that the step is too high ... Nobody else has complained," she told the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.

petty...no idea how this little issue made itself to the news

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Unusual-T...568256635.html

Krypton · 06-01-2005, 07:05 PM

LOL thats pretty pitiful

GameMaster · 06-01-2005, 07:17 PM

The Post Office regulators have stepped way out of line, in my opinion.

Krypton · 06-01-2005, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

The Post Office regulators have stepped way out of line, in my opinion.

LOL, well explained.

Typhoid · 06-01-2005, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Happydudette

petty...no idea how this little issue made itself to the news

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Unusual-T...568256635.html

Because its Canada....what the hell else do we have for news?

GameMaster · 06-01-2005, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Krypton

LOL, well explained.

Thanks, I hope Canada Mail Service doesn't go postal when they read my comment.

Happydude · 06-01-2005, 07:39 PM

wow...never knew our post office was so....lazy....eesh...10 cm?...man, i'm amazed at their laziness...i just have words.

Typhoid · 06-01-2005, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Happydude

wow...never knew our post office was so....lazy....eesh...10 cm?...man, i'm amazed at their laziness...i just have words.

Its not that he doesnt want to step the extra 10 cm, its that its illegal because its not following the building code.

Jason1 · 06-01-2005, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

The Post Office regulators have stepped way out of line, in my opinion.

Its not the post office...its Canada. Theyve got all sorts of bull**** regulations over there. For instance, were I work, we make waffle machines. We recently have gotten all our new machines "Canadian Standards Approved" which involved a whole bunch of pointless stuff to be done to them. I remember awhile back we had some machine going in a back room for weeks, that would just open and close a waffle iron...open...close...open...close. Why? Because apparently waffle machines must be opened and closed an ungodly amount of times before its good enough for Canada.

Happydude · 06-01-2005, 10:21 PM

yeah, canada has stupid rules...i mean, not as stupid as some US rules, which i won't get into right now, but pretty stupid none-the-less.

Typhoid · 06-01-2005, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Happydude

yeah, canada has stupid rules...i mean, not as stupid as some US rules, which i won't get into right now, but pretty stupid none-the-less.

Well, I like our rules.

I don't want my chips full of oils that can cause anal leakage if you eat enough of them, just to increase shelf life.

I will take random stupid rules I will never encounter, to no anal leakage any day.