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What is your go to song when you need a pick me up? Do you have a old one and a new one? Share it please and maybe put a smile on someone else's face too!! I think we all need more to smile about right now!! Old one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n...
In case some haven't got this from UPS here's their news release. Let's hope they resolve things quickly! "Dear valued customer.The union representing CBSA employees, the Public Service Alliance of Canada-Customs and Immigration Union (PSAC-CIU), has...
Lawyers got the big share, average payout was around $1.85 per person. The class action alleged that PayPal charged users more for currency conversions than it was entitled to under PayPal's user agreements between January 2017 and August 2018. Paypa...
I am wondering why that could be advantageous? as listings from ebay.ca do go to ebay.com if you checked the box for international selling and they do show up on ebay.com in usd prices even though listed in Cdn$ on ebay.ca. i am wondering what are th...
Over the years I have collected certain items but right now am in between Collections Got into the business collecting Post Cards. I rented a apartment in a older home that the University owned that I went to. Moving down to a smaller one when I went...
My first thought when reading was that these would sell really well on ebay... Japan Post Office is issuing Pokémon stamps...https://wow-j.com/en/Allguides/other/tips_manners/007_541663_en/
Like millions of others I at times am going Stir Crazy at times during the Pandemic but have usually found ways to fill my time One thing I really miss is going out Antique Picking. Have many great items I have found along the way but there is always...
New $5.00 US "Security" Surcharge on Small Packets As of May 2007From the US Postal Service website:...and further to the stronger borders initiative bill 213, passed in October 2006, all parcels entering into the United States, from Canada, which co...
Looks like Canada Post is trying to get people interested in sending letters again by reducing mailing cost to zero. Got a flyer in the today with a postage paid postcard included. Badly designed marketing flyer -- nothing on the outside to indicate ...
Received this message today: Thank you for being a Bucks member, and a valuable part of our eBay community. We’re reaching out to tell you about upcoming changes to the eBay Bucks program.After careful consideration, we’ve decided to retire the 1% ea...
Just noticed this weird thing happen:the email notification for a best offer shows the userID and feedback score..except it's not his actual feedback score... it's MINE. It looks like this buyer has 6822 feedback in the email, when i click on it, he ...
After the harrassment she and her partner got, eBay was still voted best site by users. https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/02/13/sellers-choice-awards-2021-merchants-rate-top-online-marketplaces/
According to the Report on Business /Globe and Mail today (6/1/21) Amazon is buying 11 jets from Delta and WestJet as cargo carriers. Passenger planes have always made a little more cash by carrying cargo for Canada Post and other shippers.I guess WJ...
2021 off to a great start just what exactly is in the water ....the hostility, impatience, and insanity around the world & ebay lately . this does not bode well.
When I lived in a Rural area of Ontario in the 70's got to know a number of the Local Folk. People that had lived there most of their Lives went through the Depression and made do any way they could. Met some very fascinating folk while there. Used t...
In 1955 my parents bought a Cottage up at Brock's Beach Ontario approx 7 miles from Wasaga Beach. Took a few years renovating it they converted it into a Winterized Home .When my sister and I started school we would spend the full summers there. Leav...
Looks like Ontario is going to Lock Down as of Dec 24 at 12:01 AM. Will know at 1 PM today. Decided to finish off my Grocery shopping this morning. We have not really had lines up at our stores for months but the line up was growing fast today. They ...
Just gave my other half her Christmas Gifts for this year. And it was a success! Got the right things for her. I am thrilled with her reaction. This year she started collecting Small Vintage Canadian Peanut Butter Pails. Is fascinated with them . Not...
From the pages of OUR CANADA - May/June 2005The Rural Mailman: You could set your clock by him. “The man who delivered the mail to our farm in eastern Ontario in the '20s & '30s was a perfect example of what we called a baling-wire mechanic—he figure...
Myths, Legends & HeroesDecember 14 at 2:18 PM · Wonderful to come in on my day off to this idiot’s handywork from a smash and grab from early this morning. Items taken were some wall books - early Eternals #1,2,3,4, Man Bat #1, 2001 a Space Odyssey #...
Took my packages to the PO today, since I had a present and a shipment that had to go Expedited.Arrived as the PO truck did for the SECOND (at least) 3pm pickup. There was a truck leaving as I arrived.I was number nine in line (two clerks- it's usual...
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I just received my copy of Stellar Evolutions, an anthology of the best stories from Polar Borealis, a Canadian science fiction and fantasy online magazine, and my story "October 1954"was one of those chosen. And I got paid for both publications. I a...
I was a Canadian member who used to read the daily musings of NTE USA members.And that board has now gone private for invited members only.I think it just as well become it had become a hotbed of old, prejudiced, digusting persons.Does anybody know i...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/amazon-packages-superstore-ottawa-1.5818678?fbclid=IwAR0sM3cI7nEwv804X5vAnn4vZWX3fpMnI8SXTSIx9E0R8OvAN-EY8PVOOXI "Ottawa police told CBC Friday they got a call about a delivery van that was stolen in Centretown a...
Hey ebay, Canadians are tired of your company making us pay the paypal fees for the tax money that you automatically take off when the buyer pays ,if you want your US tax money bill the buyer,or you pay your fees. As the Law Society of Canada says th...