Mailing mysteries of the Great White North - Canadian postal issues

[Sterling Moose]

I remember reading a complaint about the service which went -"I sent a package within the same state. The tracking showed it in Africa a month later".

Couldn't have been in Canada, we have Provinces not States.

Oh and I didn't bite anybody   

[Cubs]

Kawe at Westfalia has just contacted me to say one of his parcels has been returned to him after several weeks … after taking a nice detour via Riyad!

Oh, that wacky Canada Post, what fun!

[grant]

Kawe at Westfalia has just contacted me to say one of his parcels has been returned to him after several weeks … after taking a nice detour via Riyad!

Oh, that wacky Canada Post, what fun!

Fetchez la vache!

[FramFramson]

Kawe at Westfalia has just contacted me to say one of his parcels has been returned to him after several weeks … after taking a nice detour via Riyad!

Oh, that wacky Canada Post, what fun!

What the...

[grant]

What the...

Embarrassing, isn’t it?

[Will Bailie]

Just saw this in the news this morning:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-post-strike-1.4909208

I want to say something nasty about Canada Post which has requested that Royal Mail suspend shipping packages destined to Canada.  Something anti-corporation and pro-union.  Posties have taken a targeted action to inconvenience the Corporation but still allow the mail to move; the Corporation's response is to shut down mail service and blame the Union.

At least that's the way it looks to me.

[jeffreythancock]

At least the medical care is "free" and pot is legal, right?

[grant]

At least the medical care is "free" and pot is legal, right?

Well, we do pay for services.

Anyway, the situation doesn’t seem to be improving with both sides entrenched. Will have to see what happens after the “deadline” tomorrow.

[grant]

Canada Post is now telling all foreign mail partners not to ship anything to Canada. There are 600 unsorted trailers full of mail as a result of the labour dispute. The estimated time impact is at one month just to resolve what’s currently sitting. (All from the CBC News).

Basically, this is the year Canada Post Stole Christmas.

Use couriers if you want something from overseas.

[Cubs]

So, the remaining parcels apparently turned up in New York (this sounds like an epic holiday they're going on) 26 days ago. Why several parcels sent several weeks apart all managed to get to New York instead of Cardiff in Wales is anyone's guess. However, after appearing nearly a month ago in the Big Apple, the sender has now had a message from USPS saying the parcels have now been traced to … New York. Yup, they haven't actually moved, and why would they with all that fast food and theatre on the doorstep.

It's worth thinking that if the Pony Express were still operating, they may well have got here by now, even if the ponies had to swim the Atlantic.

[Codsticker]

So, the remaining parcels apparently turned up in New York (this sounds like an epic holiday they're going on) 26 days ago. Why several parcels sent several weeks apart all managed to get to New York instead of Cardiff in Wales is anyone's guess. However, after appearing nearly a month ago in the Big Apple, the sender has now had a message from USPS saying the parcels have now been traced to … New York. Yup, they haven't actually moved, and why would they with all that fast food and theatre on the doorstep.

It's worth thinking that if the Pony Express were still operating, they may well have got here by now, even if the ponies had to swim the Atlantic.

Sounds like a remarkable tale.

[tin shed gamer]

Thats just Cardiff .
I sent a parcel to Cardiff a fortnight a go . It didn't arrive. On the post office tracking is marked as signed for, and returned. Of course it's not been either.
I wonder where thats gone too?

[Cubs]

Maybe it's a global anti-Welsh conspiracy?

[FramFramson]

Maybe it's a global anti-Welsh conspiracy?

No need to overthink this, it might simply be a leeky system.

[tin shed gamer]

 
Oh that's so bad it's almost good.