Election day Oct 15, Saturday
Sometime between 1000-1400 the postmaster will be gone to vote.
Parcels:
Regular parcel post can be up to 6 weeks before arrival.
Xpress post states 8 days add 2 days to get to Thetis and another 2 days for general fudge factor. Therefore 14 days.
Etiquette:
The post office is not run by Canada Post. It is a postal outlet that Thetis Island Marina is good enough to sponsor. It is not a money winning proposition. This enables us to do things such as deliver on island letters without postage and juggle PO boxes to fit our needs (still working on getting more). Without post masters (in this this case Zola and Fred) you will be picking your mail up in Chemainus.
I am not sure whether it is the weather or the full moon. But the level of rudeness has increased significantly to where Zola has experienced racist comments. ENOUGH.
We are new to the job and doing well, in my opinion, all things considered. so, moving forward:
We don t care if you got an email that states your parcel is here. If we do not have it we do not have it. Refer above. If it is beyond those time frames then by all means we will chase it.
If you do not have a tag we will not be looking for your parcel.
If you want somebody else to pick up your parcels give us a signed statement.
We do not know everyone on the island ... yet. So if we do not know you we will be asking for ID. Having said this Zola and Fred do have a number of you in the memory banks but just a heads up to infrequent visitors.
But those of you who do not like our service and are choosing to complain to the PO and Thetis Island Marina just remember you can lose the PO if it becomes too big a headache.
For the 99 percent of you who have been so supportive my apologies but for the 1 percent creating the flack they need to understand the consequences of their behaviour.
FRED