complaints complaints complaints

As far as I recall, I've complained twice in my life about rotten or inadequate service.
Sometimes it's like fighting windmills...



Well..a few years ago dealing with the Bank of America became next to impossible. All the individuals I talked to ( phone) were incredibly polite,had a quick grasp for the problem I stated, but unfortunately month after month the same absolutely stupid situation kept repeating until I cancelled my mortgage with them and closed the account. Somewhere in management something went totally amiss and the situation became intolerable. People at the end of the line, great. Dealing with this company; hopeless.

And... Canada Post. Now privatised, a corporation, business etc. No longer run directly as part of the government. I'm sure they've made many improvements and the service for the most part is okay. But there are kinks, and it looks like the problems are at the end of the line and they are simply unacceptable.
My point here?
You could say there are three kinds of people ( just as a reference point) :
A: Those who always complain about everything...forget them.
B: Those who never complain about anything...that solves nothing..
C: Finally, those individuals who take some steps to try and right what's wrong, take a stand and try to improve things if that is possible.
To dismiss my efforts to point out Canada Post failure to do what they are well paid for ( carrier) I woulde think is only fair, especially if the case in question is not an isolated incident but a systematic failure by some lazy folks to do their job.

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....probably one of the most interesting man made stuff places on earth..or at least intriquing...easter island somewhere in the Pacific, 2300 miles west of Chile... the picture shows 15 of the almost 900 stone figures found on this island.Note the tiny horses right side to compare sizes..

Canada/Kanada

I am using this blog as a vehicle to air my anger and absolute disgust in reference to Canada Post...surprise...or more specifically question the ignorance of this obviously miserable link in the Canada Post effort to deliver first class mail.

Canada Post should receive the 2007 raspberry prize if there was such a thing.

I'm renovating a 1956 built home in beautiful Cobourg , close to Lake Ontario, near the local water works.
The plumber- renovator ran into a bit of trouble with the hot/cold water module of the shower control unit.A small tiny part, the size of a loony.

Dec.10/07...I called the manufacturer importer and they immediately mailed first class the small part. Mailed the same day..., nice people Brass -craft of St.Thomas..
I waited....and waited.
Jan.15/08...I find a sorry can not deliver card in the mail, dated Dec.15/07..as well a final reminder notice to pick up the parcel from the three mile away sub/village office, the card was dated
Dec.17/07 and it stated that the parcel would be available until
Jan.7/08. The excuse on the door hanger card was that because of snow the mail could not be delivered,( or the card or the follow up final reminder)....
Jan16/08....I rushed to the sub office but was informed that the first class small parcel was returned to sender.
Admittedly December 07 was the worst snow month of the last 30 years..no problem. A few days delay...no big deal. But early January there was at least a 10 day period, total meltdown..no snow whatsoever and yet, the the door hanger card and the final reminder card were not delivered until it was too late... I suspect it was lost in the mailbag for a while....Shabby service, not even third class and a useless waste of time and effort and expense to get the small part to me.
And they pay them 22 bucks an hour somebody remarked.

the middle green villa 1889

...increadable...how this month went by...and the year..2007, good bye..

The for sale sign has been up for about a month but during the winter things slow down, the horrendous winter (much colder than normal and a lot of snow) has not helped and that's about it.

The place could also be a bit overpriced ( the Realtors will always tell you that) and so it goes.

In any case.....if this place were in Toronto...even Scarborough...the asking price would be in the range of $500,000 plus. But here in sticks ville it"s another story. The funny thing is that newer homes sell in this area for almost the same as in Pickering, Whitby Ajax...in fact they are more expensive than in Oshawa. Of course Oshawa...GM lunch pail town is a whole other scene ..

But resale of older homes it looks like is a different story. Guess I'll have to hope for the best.

So, on this note good bye 2007..

...about time...

...truly hard to believe that november is gone...I've done nothing with this blog..anyway, renovations are progressing at the Koburg house, the villa is up for sale in Oshawa, Courtice , Bowmanville region and so it goes.

Nothing remarkable is happening at the moment, Kath was nominated for an Emmy for a movie short she produced and after her trip to New York she stayed a few days here in the big TO. Royal York no less, I kept looking for the paparazzi...

The picture? Tristan took this shot at the downtown Eatons Center mall...

..and this is my backyard of the Koburg house...

Art

...here is some stuff I created recently...

kram halt...

beim kopieren sind einige toene verloren gegangen...werde das nochmal versuchen, mittlerweile eben.....

...jetzt is der Kerl noch beim malen...noch nie Talent gehabt fuer so was..D hat mir da eingeredet es mal zu versuchen...hab ihr dann noch einen Malkasten gekauft..

Weitermalen?

Canada/Kanada

Irgendwann als ich noch meine Alarmanlagen verkloppte, kam ich in's Gespraech mit einem netten Kunden. Der sammelte Dokumente und Bilder von alten Schiffen. Er hatte sogar einige Sachen von Cunard's Ascania das Schiff das mich damals von LeHavre nach Quebec befoerderte.

Dieser alte Kasten wurde nach meiner Reise sofort verschrotted, war 33 Jahre alt war sogar mal ein Truppenschiff.

Auf meiner Ueberreise gab es sogar eine taegliche Zeitung am Schiff. Die News damals waren Revolte in Ungarn und Bombardierung des Suez Kanals...Oktober/ November 1956.

Pirmasenser

Ach Du Lieber...wieder mal eine geraume Weile her seit ich hier etwas produziert habe. Die Zeit geht herum es ist kaum zu glauben.

Die Neuigkeiten sind nun auf meinem Worldconcerns.blogspot.com/ blog (this is a link if you care)..

Auf der Suche nach Pirmasens Bildern finde ich hier immer wieder Sachen die bei vormaligen USA GI.s geknipst wurden. Wasserturmkaserne, Wohnungen, BC Totempole in Zweibruecken und das Denkmalding.

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Cant believe I did nothing this past month about this blog...hey another birthday..more work on the new homestead...and the for sale old one.
The AC on the pickup screwed up, hope to get another year out of it.
More problems than you can shake a stick at..almost looks like a nuts world and I think I'm getting a little too old for all that.
I keep reading all the good stuff in the will power book, the source code for all the ra-ra gangs meeting at the convention halls to pump up their spirits. The greenback is at par with the Canadian Dollar...we've not seen that since 1957.
Enough rambling for now.Manfred.. please check on my blog of
worldconcerns.blogspot.com it may just entertain, inform and educate you a little.

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buy a planetbag....and a planetbottle as well...

Canada/Kanada

The old place....calls itself
the middle green villa
almost ready to be put on the market.
A bit of clean up in the yard, basement and the sunroom and away she goes, on the market.
I may want to use this space to post a few pictures and then list it through Remax...

Canada/Kanada

As an increasing number of soldiers are killed, murdered in Afghanistan a bit of a ritual has developed here in Ontario. Organised loosely by Fire departments in various towns and cities along our largest highway401 which runs from Windsor (Detroit )to the province of Quebec.
Groups of mourners,police , individuals and firemen standing on top of their trucks, saluting from bridges and overpasses of the highway, as the fallen soldiers are taken from Base Trenton to the city of Toronto Morgue.

more america...

too hot to think clearly...but that's a problem at the best of times...july gone...august 10 already..can't think of anything useful...found this bit of nonsense on the web:

must be Bushes idea of bringing democracy to the oil region

AMERICA

wonder what idiot dreamed up this kiddie ride...

AMERICA

July gone...already August 10th...much to do here, must sell the old villa and update the new house some more...it's hot...not in the mood to try to construct something intelligent, therefore some stuff from the net.



Can you imagine what idiot dreamed up this kiddie ride?

wherever you go...there you are...

The end of July 07, with a bit of luck I'll be hitting seventy in a few weeks..That kind of makes you look back , reflect, and then look ahead some to contemplate on what's left of ones time.

picture of Diana with Chicita...

Pearl..2007

Pearl's gone....another good friend gone..

Masters degree in Education, highschoolteacher,lecturer,traveller nature photographer, noted author of several teaching books... she passed away.

She came to Canada in the early fifties with nothing but a degree in teaching...and never looked back.

Deutsch

Ausser Deutschland, Oestereich und der Schweiz gibt es da immer noch ein paar Laender wo man noch deutsch spricht. Z.B. the Amish or Mennonites in Kanada und in den USA. Ein paar Orte in Mexico, Peru...Agentinnien.
Deutsch ist eine der 4 offiziellen Sprachen in Namibia. Stadtverwaltung...kein pinkeln sagt das hier.

AMERICA.....Dear Hillary:-

Today it is widely believed that the so called Marshall plan was the primary reason for Germany's rapid recovery after the war.

Actually, Britain and for some reason France received twice as much money as Germany and with much greater repayment flexibility...so much for that myth.