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Spider Web Stops Canada Post Delivery

:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

Spider web stops Canada Post delivery - Yahoo! News

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A spider web — and a skittish mail carrier —prevented a Dartmouth, N.S., man from getting his mail for more than a week.
Kevin Keating noticed his letters had stopped coming after a few days, but received no notice from Canada Post.
"We just thought the mail was being stolen," he said Wednesday.
Keating made multiple phone inquiries about his lack of letters, but it took eight days for him to learn the reason for the stoppage.
A carrier delivered a handwritten note on the back of a letter explaining simply, "Spider webs," followed by the date.
Keating then learned his regular postal worker would not cross the path to his front door because there was a spider web across it.
Keating rarely uses that walkway to his front door and so had not noticed the web. He brushed it down when he got the note and his mail service has resumed.
Keating was not impressed by the delivery drought. "Yes, there was a spider. Is that a reason for not delivering my mail? What's next, ants?
"I just want another letter carrier. I just want my mail."
Keating has since gotten into the Halloween spirit early by erecting a large plastic spider above his mail box.
"My daughter, who is 12, she had a spider in her play house, so I thought since it's Halloween, I'd put it near the mail box and see what she thought of that," he said.
Canada Post said safety is a major issue for letter carriers, but that the carrier in question may have been overzealous in shutting down delivery when faced with a spider web.

:facepalm: I don't even.. how do you.. :suspicious:

Arachnophobic mailman?

walking into spider webs when delivering sucks. I deal with it daily. Get over it.

That guy needs to be fired.

LOL
arachnophobia has a larger impact on the society than I thought...haha

thats worse than the canada post strike!

what happens when the mailman's own walk way gets a spider web?
he better stock up on canned goods.

just when you think the public's view of canada post or unions can't get any worse...

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/th...pider-baby.jpg

:heckno: can't deliver

that's worse than lebron james in the 4th quarter...

ib4 pro union people storm in here to white knight the postal worker

the mail dude just wanted an extra break...

Hey, cut the postal worker a break. A lot of us would say that this postal worker should be fired for the undelivered mail, but it is not him that should take all the blame. If he does have arachnophobia then it be difficult to judge his action as -phobia implies an irrational fear.

What we could question is the shitty management running that place. Perhaps they could explain how 8 days of undelivered mail could go unchecked. How does mail get returned without anyone noticing? Since this customer was in telephone contact with the upper level, could someone not have just "run downstairs" and asked that mailman what was going on? Surely he could have got a reply in sooner than 8 days.

i once got a "pick up at nearest post office" ticket once because my dog barked when he rang my doorbell.

I was standing with the door open as he booked it back to his truck and just drove off. the fuck man

fuck off. I guarantee if i put a big ass spider (we don't have them here) on people's desk they would freak the fuck out.

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Originally Posted by Tachycardia! (Post 7595965)

ib4 pro union people storm in here to white knight the postal worker

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Originally Posted by noventa (Post 7596035)

mission successful.

at least he was creative and came up with an excuse

since canada post was sent back to work, ive noticed we don't get mail at our house on mondays or fridays but get a butt load on tuesdays

i think our postal person is taking an extra long weekend every week

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Originally Posted by noventa (Post 7596035)

If he does have arachnophobia then it be difficult to judge his action as -phobia implies an irrational fear.

All fear is irrational, homie. This guy needs to harden the fuck up.

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Originally Posted by woob (Post 7596263)

All fear is irrational, homie. This guy needs to harden the fuck up.

all fear is irrational except for when talking to women :alone: