Canada Post should be categorized as a 4 letter word. 😄
One has to realize first off that we live in vast country with a tiny population.
California has more people than Canada has.
Because of this, the fuel cost of heating and trucking and CP being just another corporation with a myopic view to the bottom line, we must endure the highest shipping rates on the planet.
What does tick me off is their expenditures on business promotions.
I was offline for a week (because my ISP refused to bring in their techies to fix 4 wifi towers over the holidays,) so i pulled one of CP's brochures out of my desk drawer.
It was in full color on high quality cardstock?
That is an unacceptable expenditure for a company crying the deficit blues. IMHO.
Next to no information other than going online to check out what they where selling.
I don't bother with the tracking rates. (I offer them and recommend them.) Anything under $40. that gets lost in the mail, is taken as a cost of doing business/a write off. Over $50. tracking rates only.
Since I switched to a post office that is a little out of my way, I have not lost a single item.
Any post office where items go missing are to be avoided if at all possible.
Canada Post does not give all their employees a union number. 20 year Temps I know have applied for a union number many times and it's red tape and BS all down the line. It's CP's way of saving money, keeping employees off the gravy train the unions have engineered.
This I suspect is the main reason I had to switch post offices. There must have been a sense of entitlement to my stock by the long term Temps. Way too many items were going missing and affecting my ratings.
All CP employees at Shopper's are on Shopper's minimum wage, and I only use them out of desperation. They tend to lose my stock too.
To their credit I had one insured Canadian sale totally trashed in shipping, It was made of wood too. Though it took me a while to find a phone number online to give me a number for my files, then transfer me to the correct department, I had my full refund check within the week.
I still have that check, it's been a month. They don't cash their own checks? Why not, they sell money grams, I have a client card, they have cash on hand. Not too terribly convenient to have to go to the banks in the winter for one small check.
At least this time they made it out to me personally, the last one I had to have it reissued because it was in this site's name.
Partnering with Canada Post is like setting yourself up to deal with the devil.
I have one collection that I forgot to weight before I took the image. New image, one less item in the collection.
I was being annoyed by a pile of mother of pearl buttons and decided to list them. Not without weighting them first to get as many in under the 500 gram line.
I have another listing ready to post but I need the box measurements first and I can't find the right sized box. It gets to sit in the files until I do.
At least one can cut off a piece of fabric yardage if it tips the scales.
It's a game you're forced to play. I don't enjoy it, the air is often blue over by the scales.
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