CANADA POST CURRENTLY A NIGHMARE!!!! First post was moved!

[sugarbaby2011]

Here's an update to our wonderful shipping nightmare CBC News discovered.........

  http://community.ebay.ca/t5/Seller-Central/CANADA-POST-is-officially-a-Nightmare/m-p/225634#U225634

[reallynicestamps]

Moved, dear, not eliminated. Pay attention.

[mr.elmwood]

I, for one, do not like absolute hyperbole such as "NIGHTMARE". There has been a trend, lately to absolute words, that are entirely inappropriate.

CP is hardly a nightmare. The odd parcel, has the odd problem, the odd time.

[bb_cool_stuff]

CP is hardly a nightmare.

I can't recall having a problem with Canada Post, if I did I guess I would remember the details.

[rose-dee]

I have to admit I've never had a single reason to complain about CP's service, never (yet) had a package go astray.  Only one delivery I can recall was late, due to Hurricane Sandy last year, but that was USPS' fault, not CP. 

I even have a knowledgeable, friendly and very helpful clerk at my little rural P.O. 

So no, more of a dream than a nightmare.  Now, pricing is another matter -- if they could just hold the line on prices for a year or two...

[bb_cool_stuff]

....if they could just hold the line on prices for a year or two.

I will compare that statement to my High School Grad Song " Dream On "

We can always hope Rose, but ???

[rose-dee]

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@bb_cool_stuff wrote:

....if they could just hold the line on prices for a year or two.

I will compare that statement to my High School Grad Song " Dream On "

We can always hope Rose, but ???

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LOL!   AKA 'pie-in-the-sky', I know, I know.  I'm a incurable optimist.

I seem to remember CP saying something every few years about, well, this rate hike is intended to be the last for a while, because it's larger -- now we're all laughing... 

[bb_cool_stuff]

I'm an incurable optimist.

I will continue to be one, though my patience is tested every fall with my football teams.

Besides, I'm only allowed one rant a year, so I'm saving it for now.

[mr.elmwood]

With the decline in the Loonie, I do believe I am paying less for parcel rates than I was two years ago.

A true nightmare is that recent report, made up I hope, about threats to Wpg nurses. We went through that in the liquor stores about 7 or 8 years ago. Rumours starting floating that attacking liquor store employees was a gang initiation. Never happened.

[hocotatefreight]

I, too, have had no trouble with CP.  Last week the clerk at the drug store wouldn't take my "lettemail" DVDs because they didn't slip through the slot, took a slight tap and a smirk from me and it went through.  If I was her, I would have been very frustrated with me lol.  I said I would take the chance, walked up the street to the post office and they were fine.  There's no "nightmare" this is life.  Sometimes things are delayed due to a glitch in the system.  This one looks to be temporary.

I'm not a huge seller but I do buy stuff online a lot.  I live in a very small town where they let WalMart in.  Consequently, there are very few small shops to buy things in so I shop a lot online.  I literally get at least a parcel a day and I'm very happy with CP.  I can say the same for the USPS, solid service.  Now, if we want to talk about FedEx from the US to Canada I have a bit of a rant. heh.

[mr.elmwood]

Thanks gang. What gets lost in the translation is, one problem, one day, with one parcel does not define the system.

In my world, I believe the postal system is spectacular. That many things, going through all those points, to get where they are going? That fast? That reliably?

All the problems I have had, have been:

- my errors
- buyer's errors