Anyone experiencing problems with Canada Post?
 

We sent a important letter to the embassy in France using Xpresspost International on May 21st and ,according to Canadapost ' s website , it arrived overseas on May 26th but after 6 hours it was shipped back!!!
It says that it is '' en route to Canada'' . How is it possible?
Anyone else experienced sort of these issues?
Much appreciate , thank you

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Depends why it is being returned. Could be customs issue, adressing issue, refused by consignee. You'll find out when you get it back or you could call Canada Post if you are patient.

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Don't trust their tracking system, it's very unreliable.

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''custom issue'' doesn' t really make sense given that we are talking about documents

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It is not just their tracking system that is unreliable. I've sent stuff via Canada post quite a few times and they seem to only be able to deliver 50% of the items either I've ordered or sent. It seems worse for parcels.

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Never had problems losing parcels or letters with Canada Post. Always sent TWP applications to Vegreville through them. The tracking system, on the other hand, is crazy and sometimes your package has arrived and the tracking gets updated three or four days later.

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agree that they barely update the tracking system

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Canada Post doesn't deliver letters in France. ;)
I assume you mean Fed-Ex or CP's contracted courier.
I've had various issues with both Canada Post and Royal Mail. I can never figure out who the culprit is, so it may be the French Service Postale who has bolloxed it.
Sounds like it was undeliverable, and therefore is being returned to sender.

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undeliverable @ the Canadian Embassy in Paris????
the address thousands and thousands people send their stuff to?
i don't know but I have had enough trouble with Canada Post.
They charge you 60 bucks for xpresspost and we don't even know if they could deliver it!
Very very disappointing

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Don't lose hope.
I gave you a link in your other thread to email the office.
The London office replied to my emails within 2-3 days.

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the canadian postal system is, in my opinion, laughable! 'post', it gets delivered when 'they' deem to deliver it....it could be sitting around the 'posties' pick up point forever........trouble is, the postal system is in effect a franchise system, that means that the ordinary man on the street can take on a postal round and do it as thier job.....but hey, if the postie don't feel like delivery of that days post, then what the hell, it'll get done the next day, right!

http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/1165/la_id/1.htm

don't get me wrong, i like our postie but he only delivers every other day and never at the weekend, so basically, we get post tuesdays and thursdays......we live in the city!!!!!

but all said....it's one of the endearing things that i kinda like about this place.....slow, slow, quick (ish), slow.......

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This isn't entirely true.
Post generally is not delivered weekends in Canada. Some outlying areas like BC :rofl: may have different rules, but generally, in the sophisticated parts of Canada (not an oxymoron) it's 9-5/Monday to Friday. :D

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It's not just not entirely true, it's entirely false.

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I only qualified it because I've had the postie come on Saturday.
They may have been sorry they were ill Friday, or will be off Monday. ;)

Cheers Richmond Hill. My Grandparents are from there.
I live in Thornhill.

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I had no probles with Canada Post this week. CIC mailed out stuff to me on the 22nd of May, and I received it on the 28th with no problems.

I think the issue is more likely to be the French postal service as I doubt 6hrs isn't going to be long enough for them to process from the arrival hub to the local sorting hub. Most sorting and distribution is done overnight.

They've probably just turned it around at the first place it gets sorted at. It'll probably get returned with a note saying it's not a valid address, insufficient postage, or something like that.

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Today I received a package from the Uk (Tea bags) that my friend had sent for emergency purposes on . . . . . .




wait for it..











28th of Feb~~~:blink:

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I have to call Canada Post on Monday , because their call centre don't work 24/7 !!!! , and ask them who sub-contract the shipment to , and the new tracking # .
I hate this situation

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proper english novocastration, proper english.....

A double negative occurs when two forms of negation are used in the same clause. In some languages (or varieties of a language), negative forms are consistently used throughout the sentence to express a single negation. In other languages, a double negative is used to negate a negation, and therefore, it resolves to a positive. In the former case, triple and quadruple negation can also be seen, which leads to the terms multiple negation or negative concord.

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I wasn't worried about your grammar more about your claim that postal delivery is a franchise and that anyone can set up a delivery round. I admit I've no experience of rural BC, but that certainly isn't true around here.

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Howdy, neighbour.

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ooh get you! ;)

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I wouldn't be too impressed if I were you...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative

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I sent some maple syrup to Co Durham 4 weeks ago. it hasn't arrived. Do you think it was damaged in someway? Hope I don't get the bill.

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We can beat that:), We received a calendar last week from my Aunt, it was posted (and franked by the Royal Mail) on November 17th in Bermondsey, London....

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oh but she went to all the trouble to look it up! :)


oh dear lord!! but my tea bags were marked urgent too!! It was before I realised that the tetley etc here was the same even tho it said orange pekoe!!

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Hi
gotta be honest, I have had great service from canada post.
bit expensive, but now't lost.
cheers
Jerry