I live 4 kms from a Postal Outlet, however, to avoid the whining, complaining, deliberately unhelpful staff at the POSTAL OUTLET , I take my parcels 11 kms to a Home Hardware store that has a tiny postal outlet in it. I leave all my parcels in a Canada Post sack(provided to me by their staff) I just set the bag of parcels at their front door at 4:30 pm each day and by 4:50 pm the CP truck driver picks it up and sets it in his truck. No double checking, re-weighing or re-measuring. Since I switched to online shipping tools, there is no money in quibbling prices at the Hardware store, so the quicker my stuff leaves the better it is for them. Canada Post Employees hate Ebay Sellers, even though, we are a new MAJOR SOURCE OF WORK for their company. We pay for the service like anyone else, but are given shoddy, at times malicious service and advice from CP employees. I too have had parcels sent to the return address(mine) It is done on purpose, as NO ONE is that stupid, not even CP employees. CP employees will make mistakes to discourage you from coming back to their outlet. The bitch who heads up my local CP outlet, actually screams & turns red while giving false instructions. In over 875 parcels shipped only 4 have ever gotten broken-you guessed it, when they were droped off at that Postal Outlet. I am hoping that eventually as the use of online shipping tols increases, some of these POSTAL NIGHTMARE EMPLOYEES will get the boot, for lack of work. It would serve them right!! Love the topic. Thanks for the outlet!!
PHIL