And, since I had a short polite discussion about this with a postal outlet clerk the other day, Registered Mail to the USA or overseas does not track outside of Canada. But the PO still will sell you the useless label.
Canada Post doesn't offer an official "Registered" service to the USA, anything sent "Registered" to the USA goes as Xpresspost with tracking and signature, so it will fully track and provide proof of delivery. But Tracked Packet is going to be cheaper than Xpresspost/Registered every time.
International Registered Letter-post does track to some locations. I've been trying to keep a small personal file of countries that show tracking for International registered letters. I can confirm that you will get tracking and delivery confirmation to the UK, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. Only one of those (UK) allowed me to see the signature that was captured. Registered letters to the Philippines will track all the way until the final point of delivery but will never show a "Delivered" entry for some reason. Registered letters to The Netherlands and Germany do not show any international tracking updates. That is the extent of my monitoring thus far.
It's best to assume your international registered letter won't track in the destination country, but for many it does. Unfortunately there's no definitive list anywhere with this data.
Also Canada Post doesn't really promise international tracking (or delivery confirmation) with Registered Letter-post - what they do promise is "Proof of Mailing" (basically, proof that the item was sent out). If people require proof of delivery or a signature be collected they can purchase an AR card (Advice of Receipt) for a couple of bucks which gets attached to the letter and a hard copy of the recipient's signature is mailed back to them. Although for the purposes of eBay, I doubt this would be valid proof as it isn't electronically available.
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