Canada Post – pretty sad service

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I am hesitant to trade or do business with knifenuts in Canada.
Not because I have anything against Canadians as such, but the postal service is atrocious.
To my part of the world anyway.
It is enough to make a man give up eating Maple syrup!

Usually USPS Global Priority from the US takes 7 to 10 days max.
At the height of the slowdown after September 11, the delivery time was 14 days.

After 14 days waiting on a registered, airmail parcel from Canada I contacted Canada Post.
Got an automatic response saying that due to the volume of Internet request for info, it would take 3 days to answer my query.
That was 8 days ago.
No answer and no parcel.

My trade took about a week or so to get there.
Is it just mail between Canada and Australia, or is the problem endemic to Canada post?
 
I have no experience with sending to or receiving from Australia. I do know that Canada Post Gets parcels that I send to the U.S. there within a day or two. It then seems to take the USPS up to 10 days to get them the rest of the way. I always use Express Post.


Edited because I left a word out.
 
Keith, lets do a test.
Send me your new MooreMaker and I'll time it!:D
 
..I married a 'Yukoner', and I love her family and friends...my Canadian friends met here and elsewhere are just about the nicest, straight up people that I know...hell, they are the nicest people I know...

Good folks all, straight up, no BS'ers in the lot...but their postal service sucks, sucks, and then sucks some more...

When we were up in Whitehorse over Christmas a few years back, my wife's friend, a Canada Post 'contractor' had taken a trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands...and they didn't have a replacement for the friend, so my wife, who had previously done contract mail delivery, was asked to 'fill in', on our vacation!

So, we delivered mail via Jeep and Snowmobile to people that we didn't know, just cuz the mail needed to get through...This is some serious nutty 'stuff' folks!!!

The worst part was, while we were 'sorting' the mail, We looked for a parcel that we'd sent up from California a month earlier that hadn't been delivered....and it was just 'sitting there' in the sorting room, with all the other undelivered mail... :eek:

What the heck is up with that? If you want your mail in the Yukon, you have to be an active participant? OMFG!

Anyhoo, Canadians, great people...in serious need of an effective mail delivery system...

Mel
 
You know Dirk, I think that knife is going to be just a little to nice to take a chance on it not making it there. Besides, I think I want to keep it all to my greedy self. ;)
 
My parcel arrived today.
Like the Mounties – Canada Post will get their man in the end.
 
One of my friends is working for Canada Customs right now, they're in the same building as the Canada Post guys. From what he tells me they'er having some work issues, as in the employees want overtime but the managers won't give it to them. So what ends up happening is they work slow so as NOT to make the quota so they have to work overtime and get extra pay. In some cases they've had packages lying around from Christmas! My f**ckin' government tax dollars at work... :barf:
 
Can't say that I have ever had a real problem with Canada Post. Two weeks ago I shipped a parcel to Japan and it arrived in 5 days. California usually takes 10 days outside.
 
Dirk suffered through a very lenghly delivery process in a trade between us, involving Canada Post and whatever carrier they turned it over to for furtherance. He indeed handled the scary situation in a very gracious manor, even though we were both quite worried as to the outcome. Anyway, we both have our knives and are moving forward. Thank You Dirk for your understanding. Mike
 
Oupa,

After 26 days I would be frustrated and concerned too. It might be faster to swim there with the knife between your teeth. I understand that using "Expresspost" service is marginally faster and trackable, however there is no signature required at the rec'ing end which is a liability.

I have had orders take as long as a month to come from the U.S. I am not sure where the delays are (USPS, Cdn. Customs, Cdn. Post). Usually my orders are here within 2 weeks and I'm happy with that.

Glad to hear it finally arrived
 
Mail is very slow lately, the last few items I had from the states were very slow, ~4 weeks when it should have been ~one.

-Cliff
 
Hey Oup....I have had several dealings with 'knifenuts' in Canada and my parcels have been quick!! No problems encountered whatsoever...

Out of the states on the other hand...:rolleyes:

I think you win some and you loos some.
 
I think that aerius is probably close to the mark.
Go-slow work methods are enough to drive your blood pressure up to record heights.
No western country seems to be immune to it either.
Dealing with Mike is truely a pleasure - If only I had more to spend!
 
My exeperience with Canada Post is mediocre at best.

Packages that I send south usually get there much faster than packages coming to Canada. I think customs here is either slow or terribly anal about inspection.

And I'm not a confident that Canada Post themselves is working productively to deliver inbound international packages. Although local mail is wicked fast sometimes.

Burton
 
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