sorry for the amazing title. But I just had to, I don’t know tell people I could just bang my head against a wall.
So to start I submitted finally and sent off my spousal sponsorship application for me wife and kids I’m sponsoring them we live outside of Canada currently.
Anyway posted it via Royal Mail tracked and signed
on the 11/09/18 it arrived in Australia customs on 16/09/18. So obviously it went to the wrong COUNTRY Royal Mail can’t start an investigation to find out where it is until 25 working days as Australia won’t even respond. And so I filled out the online claim form with Royal Mail so they start the investigation then they said there is a back log of 3 weeks until they can contact Australia/ Canada hahahahah what the hell. And they said it takes between 1-3 weeks for them to respond and so it’s been gone around 7 weeks so far and they haven’t even sent off the request to Australia to see where it is.

And on top of that there is a Canada post strike oh an on top of that I’m pretty sure I’ve sent it to the wrong place I sent it to Mississauga when it should of gone to Nova Scotia. Ahhhh the joys anyway what I’m trying to ask is does anyone know if they will send it onto Nova Scotia or back to myself?? I hope it’s not the latter. Anyone with any experience of this please. I’d be very great full. I guess in heigh in sight I should of caught a flight and dropped it in myself.

It definitely went to Australia Royal Mail said it accidentally went to Australia it could of been stuck to the back of another parcel/ letter bound for Australia when it was on the conveyor that sorts the items bound for each country. They said they can see the correct destination was Canada and have apologised but that still doesn’t matter. It’s a bit of a kick in the balls that Canada won’t forward my application on to nova Scotia they would rather send it back to me in the U.K. but if that’s what they do that’s what they do. I will use fedex or ups or anyone other than Royal Mail again. I’m a bit gutted that if they do send it back to me by the time it gets back to me it’s going to have taken around 4 months and it still won’t have been submitted to immigration.

Are you absolutely sure you sent it to Ontario though? I think you must have had the Sydney address on it if it went to Oz by mistake.

if you did sent it to Sydney then it sounds as though it will eventually reach the correct destination though from what Pollyana’s said, which is good.

Pretty sure I sent it to the Mississauga office and not the Nova Scotia one Royal Mail said that Australia will send it onto its final destination but then it looks like because I sent my application to the wrong office they will send it back to me then I will have to roll the dice again and send it back to the correct one at Nova Scotia.

Thats certainly what should happen, if it got caught up in mail for Aus instead of Canada, which seems the most likely reason. Any sorter would be looking at the country not the city, then as soon as it arrives here it will be routed back out to Canada. After that, sorry, can't help!
Aus Post are pretty atrocious in many ways but thats mainly in relation to domestic mail. As long as you wrote CANADA on it, it'll go there. Unfortunately it sounds like it would've been better if the address was illegible and Aus just did a RTS (return to sender). However I know from my time working there that RTS is viewed as low priority and can take weeks to be actioned.
An additional way of ensuring it won't lurk in Aus for long is the postcode, crossing my fingers here but presumably Canada does not have four digit postcodes ( eg 4563)?
As long as the postcode is not four figures all the machines will reject it and it will end up in the hands of a human pretty quickly!

Thanks for that info. I remember when I worked for APost we had issues with Eastern European countries with 4 digits postcodes. The machins assumed they were Aussie codes and they would go round and round for agres until someone spotted the actual country on the envelope.

The First person I spoke to at Royal Mail said can you not just re send it I laughed it took me ages to gather all the info and photos etc of us it was a right ball ache so I’m just hoping that it turns up somewhere anywhere because the tracker hasn’t been updated since the 13/10/18 where it says your parcel is current leaving the U.K. and more information will be available when it reaches the destination country. I would re send it but honestly I think about all the questions and info they want it was bad enough renewing my expired Canadian passport from the U.K. sending it was supposed to be the easiest bit of the application the woman at Royal Mail also told me that Canada customs is terrible for holding onto items and letters and parcels and bein very very slow she said. Thanks for your help everyone it’s horrible waiting all this time and not knowing where it is after doing everything I have already and paying almost £1k in application fees.

There is no reason for Aus to send it back to the UK. As long as the Canadian address is clear it will be sent on to the correct destination. It will only becoe a Return To Sender if the Canadian address cannot be read by the person here ( in Aus).
RTS is low priority as far as Aus Post is concenred, but I see no reason why this should become RTS. It should just be sent onward. ( based on knowledge from working at AP)
I will agree that mail from Aus to Canada is not always fast, I have a lot of delays when sendinfg ebay stuff to Canadian buyers, usually 3weeks Aus to Canada.