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Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 23rd 2017, 11:01 am

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Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

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Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

I’d given up on seeing this until after the holidays, however a remarkably cheerful (if exhausted looking) parcel post person turned up at the door with it at 6.30pm last night. I was gobsmacked.

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 21st 2017, 4:34 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

I’m going to have to stop my whinging about international mail & shipping & Canada Post ;).

Internet order placed 13/12/17 for an item from China, estimated delivery date 18/1/18.

I hadn’t...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 15th 2017, 4:17 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

True but: many of my Canada Post whinges & whines have been about incoming overseas mail arriving in Canada reasonably promptly, then taking forever to actually make it *here*, sometimes via...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 15th 2017, 1:25 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

I’m probably about to jinx myself:

Canada Post has excelled itself recently with various deliveries. Highlight is parcel posted Monday (11th) afternoon in a Northern town UK. Delivered (right to...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 31st 2017, 3:49 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

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Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

:rofl:

That HAS to be an error, but it’s (to me) an hilarious one! Back when I used to ferry sprogs all over to baseball games, places like St-L made me feel better about living in bum****-nowhere...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 26th 2017, 5:54 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Parcel posted in Toronto 20/10/17, destination here (Somewhere in Qc).

CP Tracking said it left Mississauga 22/10/17.

CP Tracking says it then went to Calgary 23/10/17.

CP Tracking now says...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 7th 2017, 4:32 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Yes. I was quoted ~2 weeks for shipping/arrival date, which - knowing CP delays - I didn’t really believe so allowed ~a month before I inquired.

I do feel a bit bad for the seller: I immediately...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 7th 2017, 2:45 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

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Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Internet order placed 6/6/17. Shipping date 10/6/17, from Hong Kong.

Query lodged with sender mid-July.

Sender reimbursed me 15/8.

Parcel arrived here yesterday. Neatly opened and resealed...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 3rd 2017, 9:05 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

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Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Letter sent last Friday from NYC, & small parcel sent Monday from NYC (same PO, neither were sent express), both arrived here yesterday morning. I was rather taken aback at the parcel arriving so...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 2nd 2017, 1:25 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

It's not just Canada Post that's unfathomable!

I've received a package today, sent early May from London UK. It appears to have visited Sweden on the way :confused: . The package is intact, in its...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 29th 2017, 7:12 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

A blast from the past: that 23/3 letter? It just turned up back at the sender's address in London UK. With 3 "return to sender" stamps & an Ontario postmark on it.

Other recent mail to & from...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Apr 11th 2017, 8:28 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Small package posted last Thursday (6th April) in London England, arrived here today.

Letter posted 23rd March in London England, not yet arrived here.

Letter posted 27th March in York England,...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 21st 2016, 6:41 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

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Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBZ7AfZR9xs

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 20th 2016, 2:22 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Thanks :). I shall bate my breath in solidarity with you & your parcel ;)

PostLady rolled her eyes when I mentioned that the tracking system said parcel had gone to Manitoba. She said...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 20th 2016, 1:29 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

PostLady just delivered the parcel which, according to CP tracking, is (still) in Winnipeg.

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 19th 2016, 8:58 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

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Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Blooming ridiculous (& pompous to boot).

I have no new news of my parcel which also allegedly went to Winnipeg, & also appears to be there still.

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 17th 2016, 5:43 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

What????!!!!

:Banging head on brick wall: in sympathy :(. I'm off to a carol service, then to buy a (larger than intended) bottle of brandy for Christmas cooking. And for raising a glass to your...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 17th 2016, 2:55 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

I'll let you know when I've spoken to them :). That sounds EXACTLY like a Canada Post logical explanation :rofl:

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 17th 2016, 2:02 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

;)

I was DELIGHTED with the processing time... until I saw Manitoba on the tracking info. The damn thing even has the right (Qc) postcode on it, but is apparently, according to Canada Post, making...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Dec 17th 2016, 11:03 am

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

I'm tracking a parcel sent Monday from abroad, which arrived in Montreal 3 days ago.

As of this morning, it's showing as shipped out to Manitoba...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jan 9th 2016, 12:07 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

That's not Canada Post ...

Whois trackingshipment.net (http://www.whois.com/whois/trackingshipment.net)

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jan 6th 2016, 9:37 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

;);)

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jan 6th 2016, 8:50 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Good Heavens! Delivery is strictly M-F here, year round.

The MIA Amazon package turned up today, along with an identical one I wasn't expecting: my sister sent me the exact same cookery book for...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jan 5th 2016, 10:56 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Canada Post reckons it delivered a parcel to me last Sunday... Never mind that CP doesn't deliver here on Sundays.

Amazon reckons said parcel is in Mississauga, having traveled from there to...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 29th 2015, 12:44 pm

Replies: 290

Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Views: 36,201

Posted By Shirtback

Re: Dear Canada Post, We Need To Talk.

Canada Post surprised the heck out of me this week: parcel from UK to rural QC arrived in 4 days; package from rural Qc to rural Kentucky left here via Express-post 3pm Friday, arrived there noon...

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