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Filing of Census today…

If you filled out your census form online with your 16 digit number as a username put in your basic information and were prompted to either go on or make a password and finish it later then today Tuesday the 18th of May 2021 your form will automatically file if you never went back to it. When this happens you will have by making your presence in your city town or rural area secured funding for many things including policing hospitals etc until the next census.

The post office the most active agent in the census process thank you for filing your census.

Your census data is based on where you lived on May 11th 2021… File today but file…

On This day: May 18th 1291

The fall of acre ends the crusader presence in the holy land.

Post office squatter

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Raven try’s out the old Flag pole perch at historic Post Office Photo KDG

A raven squats on the rump of the old flag pole at the historic Merritt post office. The building circa 1939.

No comment was available from the bird about the expiration of the strike deadline at Canada Post.

On this day in history August 29th 1791

The HMS Pandora sinks a day after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

 

Lock out looms….

Merritt Post Office Voght and Granite File Photo: KDG

Merritt Post Office
Voght and Granite
File Photo: KDG

Cooling off by Friday?

There may be a postal disruption on Friday as the employer of Canada Postal workers have given 72 hours lockout notice.

Gov’t pension checks are considered essential  to an may be handled by management, electronic delivery is not effected.

Editors Note: Canada post owns Purolator Courier: “Purolator Inc. is a Canadian courier that is 91% owned by Canada Post Corporation,[1] 7% owned by Barry Lapointe Holdings Ltd. and 2% by others” Source Wikipedia

Purolator Merritt is at 2040 Voght street ( the above building) and post office…. they are listed in the Yellow pages.

On this Day: July 6th 1990

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is established.

 

 

Teen center

There is a renovation going on at the former office of the local mural project that saw murals of country singer put on many buildings about town by famed muralist Michelle Loughry.
A source says that Ask wellness is moving into the building they now have their office the BC government 55+ disabled housing project.
A renovator says it may be a teen drop in as fridge and stove is going in.
The building once part of the Armstrong Department store belonging to a principle in the incorporation of Merritt as a city in 1911. The store proper is now the home of The Country Music Hall of Fame and is across the alley from the building that is being renovated.It was once  the stores warehouse.
Spirit Square, a legacy project for the last winter Olympics is attached as well. Voght Street and Granite avenue across from the Post Office in downtown Merritt.
Today in History April 24, 1913

The Woolworth skyscraper is opened in New York

TGIF- postal rate increase

A source at the post office says that the first class rate for a letter is going up within a week , to 66 cents.

The stamps you buy for first class do not have a price on them so stamps purchased before are honored as at the rate applyed no matter when purchaced.

This may be a sales technique however it does work.

Another source at a private Canada post retail outlet says the increase will be on Monday but isn’t sure of the amount.

have a great weekend

have a great weekend

Today in history: January 11,630

Mohammed leads and army of ten thousand to conquer Meca