Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, New Year to all our Posties !!

It's a foggy mild early Christmas Eve morning with a big wind storm heading our way from the SW later this afternoon and overnight, so Santa will have to be at his best landing those reindeer on all our roofs ! I look forward to gathering with my sisters, their kids, and dear old dad, Bill Angus, soon to be 96 for a nice meal tomorrow, sharing a few stories, love and happiness, that's what it's all about isn't it !


I have taken a part time job over the summer and now at Christmas with Canada Post and am helping out at the Don Mills depot with some great men and women, my supervisors Chris Nesbitt, Tim Wallace and Chandra are a pleasure to work with, all very talented at what they do, organizing us all every morning, and as important in what is often a seemingly uncaring big operation, they care..


So we will all be out in the rain and wind today bringing your mail and packets and presents and may I say as an outsider looking in, none of you have any idea of the job these posties do every day. Just sorting the mail every morning is a huge job in it's own right and the routes they walk are all way too long, with way too much mail, and of course in all weather. Imagine being outside in the dark, in a strange neighbourhood, in the dead of winter, every dog is barking at you, with no help except your miners head light and your own determination, expected to deliver all the mail in your truck before you finish or else!


I have had a great career in sports management and of course in broadcasting and producing for the last 25 years, and have seen a lot of life on both sides of the Atlantic, but in all honesty the job these guys are expected to do every day is as onerous as they come.


So spare a thought this Christmas to your local postie. They will be at work all day today, then back at it Monday morning no matter what the weather. They deserve your respect, they certainly have mine..


Back to golf next blog but for now may you all have a nice time with your families and friends how ever you celebrate this time of year, from me to you, have a Merry Christmas, and a happy, safe, healthy, prosperous New Year !!


All the best
Bryan