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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24876 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
About time! |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Counties (and its many variations like Rural Municipalities) continue to slowly disappear here in Canuckistan, as they are merged for economics and efficiencies. Sometimes the names live on in hyphenated form, sometimes they just go. The post office does continue to deliver to old county style addresses, but the US made maps in most automotive GPS devices do not recognize this. Same issue here in Ontario with provincial highways that were downloaded to the municipalities about fifteen years ago. They all got new numbers, but the post office recognizes, and the locals usually use, the old provincial number, but you won't find it on your GPS. This can make it very hard to find a rural address. Often the people living there don't know their address no longer "officially" exists. The mergers, by the way, are often met with stiff resistance from the locals. It got to the point in the last few decades of the last century that the county merger process had stopped completely in Saskatchewan, even as farms got bigger and small towns shut down. In about 1985 there were several counties in that province with less than 50 voters on their poll list. Needless to say, not a lot of improvements could be made with a tax base like that. That may be why the process seems to have restarted recently. By the way, back in the day the size of a county in Canada was set such that a resident in the far reaches could harness their horse at dawn, get into the county seat and do some business, and then get the horse and wagon back in the barn by nightfall. Automobiles and paved roads changed that calculation considerably. (Sent from the heart of (for now) Middlesex County, on the banks of the Thames.) |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Our Dorchester is in the south-east corner of our Middlesex. Our Thames Centre is nearby, and was created in 2001 by merging North Dorchester and West Nissouri. Other town names in Ontario you might recognize are Scarborough, York, Newcastle, Whitby, Chatham, Teeswater, Waterford, and Stratford. Over the last few years London has absorbed several small towns, including Hyde Park and Lambeth. There are at least three Dalhousies in Canada, each with its local pronunciation. The one in Ontario is pronounced Da-LOO-see. Just to keep everybody happy, we also have a Hamburg, a Paris, and a Zurich. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Not so for countys, But for towns. Here in the states as the post office is losing more and more money they are consolidating post offices. You get rid of a post office but keep the same deliverers because the area is now bigger. And folks have to drive farther to get stamps and such other items. [/quote] Old James |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
We can also do postage online, and we can buy stamps at some grocery stores. They also offer free pickup of packages for Priority Mail or higher. (For that matter, I suppose they also pick up lower service packages when they pick up outgoing regular envelope mail.) David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
We can also do postage online, and we can buy stamps at some grocery stores. They also offer free pickup of packages for Priority Mail or higher. (For that matter, I suppose they also pick up lower service packages when they pick up outgoing regular envelope mail.) COSTCO sells stamps in rolls of 100. Just an FYI. TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
COSTCO sells stamps in rolls of 100. Just an FYI. Jewel sells them in books of 20, which lasts me quite a while. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24876 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Baffling map of England's counties Well, what more can one expect from bureaucrats? "Catherine Staite, director of the Institute of Local Government at Birmingham University, says there was no consistency to the way these overlapping boundaries were drawn. "We've ended up with a patchwork of arrangements for which there is no logic."" |
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