Someone has said I am "obsessed" about the tracking information which is true.
Remember that Canada Post and USPS spend millions (maybe billions) of $$$$ for the so-called technology that include scanning machines and yet they cannot do their proper jobs and ensure that every employees must scan each items with UPC codes.
Actually you cannot miss seeing the UPC codes on packages/parcels at any time, so why can't they scan them and use the scanning machines to scan them from A to B, B to C, C to D, so on??
I shipped many items with tracking numbers the last 4 years and more in 2013 due to being expensive items and noticed that they were almost never been scanned at my local post office which **bleep** me off.
Why I am **bleep** off, because I was paying lots of $$$ for tracking numbers and I EXPECTED them to be scanned from A to B, B to C, C to D and so on , period!! It is like going to a fast order drive in and ordered for an A/W mozza cheese burgers and get buns with no meat inside!! That is not what I am paying for!
So what happened I printed the tracking information which were a lot with PayPal invoices and send copies to the head of Canada Post and insisted that I be reimbursed for all those $$$ I paid for tracking numbers and they weren't scanned, maybe just one place but not from my local post office. Needless to say I recieved the full refund which was a huge amount of $$$.
After that I have seen that my local post office has scanned my items since then and not miss once!!
We need to speak up and complain and made demands that they must do their jobs or else. "Or else" meaning they must refund for not doing their jobs. Keep them on their toes!!
Another issue about tracking number is that I found out with a few US sellers that they can ship my items, the small ones like slides, matchbookes, etc., by USPS Lettermail for $1.10 plus $1.00 for tracking and they came with XpressPost stickers!! For one $1.10 actual postage plus $1.00 for tracking number!! I was thinking, hey, since Canada Post and USPS has the scanning machines, so why the heck don't Canada Post offer the same thing like offer tracking number for $1.00 for lettermail service???!!!
If USPS can offer that, so why not Canada Post??? I am sure that many of us don't mind to pay extra like $1.00 for tracking number so we can rest and not to worry.
It is too bad that someone at Canada Post think that they can gouge us by increasing way too much postages and not doing good service. I think Canada Post is the MOST expensive mail service in the world!
It makes me thinking about why the heck do eBay needs to offer (demand more likely!) to US sellers to opt in the bogus scam like Global Shipping Program (GSP) when the sellers can use cheaper mail services and pay $1.00 for tracking numbers?? Of course many sellers are not aware that they can ship them at much cheaper mail service like lettermail and pay $1.00 for tracking number. So far I have received 5 small packages with XpressPost with actual postage for $1.10 and additional $1.00 for tracking number for each.
My past experience with many US sellers, nearly half of them have no idea about it and most of them think Canada is located like China or Russia not above North Dakota, Washington, etc!! Some of them even said they don't know how to mail them to Canada as if! I said if you go to the post office all the time to ship your items to US buyers, it is the same place that you can ship your items to Canada!! As if there is ANOTHER special post office in USA for Canada??? Sheesh!!
Sorry for the lengthly but I need to vent. Thanks.
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