I am disowning Canada Post!

christyf5 · #1 01-24-2008, 09:19 PM

Before Christmas I sent a package to Calgary, the girl working at the desk didn't write the postage I paid to have it delivered on the package (what kind of bizarre system is that) so it arrived COD and had to be paid for again. I never kept the receipt for the postage so I can't get my money back.

michika · #2 01-24-2008, 09:24 PM

I've sent out two money orders to someone for a purchase and the first time it came back wrong address. The second time it just went to the routing station/depot and never moved. I sent three packages out the same day from two different locations in the city, and not one has made it to its destination yet.

I've had to file claims on 4 of the sent packages. I think Canada Post things I'm out to defraud them or something since I've had to make so many claims in such a short period of time.

TRIX · #3 01-24-2008, 09:33 PM

Greyhound is not much better. Large Packages go missing and no one cares. Everyone blames the other depot.

michika · #4 01-24-2008, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by TRIX

Greyhound is not much better. Large Packages go missing and no one cares. Everyone blames the other depot.

Ah, yes, pass the buck syndrome. I think its prolific in all industries.

Der_Iron_Chef · #5 01-24-2008, 09:39 PM

Moral of the story: move to Germany and use Deutsche Post. Superb!

Murminator · #6 01-25-2008, 03:29 AM

I got some snowmobile parts shipped from Ontario last week got it in 3 days through canada post no problem here

erikages · #7 01-25-2008, 04:06 AM

I love Canada Post and United States Postal Service!! As someone who orders stuff from all over the place, I find the two state postal services to be the best whenever it comes to border issues.

It's the major courier companies that drive me insane. UPS is the worst: absurd delays and charges for cross border stuff. I don't mind paying GST, but the customs charges are absurd. So when I'm buying stuff, I try to insist that US companies use USPS, which then gets transferred to Canada Post and delivered - fast, easy, and no customs charges.

Then again, I've never had bad luck -- with the exception of couriers.

BTW: I once had to deliver a poster to a client in Ottawa. They needed it the next day. Unbelievably, I paid $700 to FEDEX a tube overnight for guaranteed delivery by 10am the next day. Imagine: $700 for a 5 pound poster tube. Anyway, much to my horror FEDEX "contracted out" this highly specialized service to various subcontracted couriers, none of whom were accountable. Short and sweet: one of the contracted couriers missed a connection in Calgary; then another missed a pick up in Ottawa. The $300 poster (now $1,000) reached my Ottawa client 2 days later -- long after it was needed. This fiasco began with UPS, with whom I'd paid a reasonable $90 the day before for the same package, but the courier "forgot to pick it up." This is when I turned to FEDEX to rescue me.

Give me Canada Post any day -- or any two days.