Canada Post Mail Delivery Issues to the USA

[mrdutch1001]

Yellow Alert : Mail Delivery Issue - Posted June 19th on Canada Post website

https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/blogs/announcements/details.page?article=2018/06/19/mail_and_parcel...

[fashionoutletdeal]

Thats not true .The delays started at end of May  beginning of June .I ship daily to USA

[fashionoutletdeal]

Thats why we pay 3 times the price of USPS even when you convert the exchange rate .CEO of Canada post must be happy 

[fashionoutletdeal]

Thats may be truth but did you ever try to check on eBay which listings showed first .Everything that is in USA location . So do not blame only Trump.Try to look further. Our listings are pushed down by eBay doesnt matter the price that you offering ,free shipping and free returns .People that do not accept returns showing first in the search.I just made an experiment and offered free shipping and free returns .Guess my listing was on the 3 rd page of 192 listing per page .

[momcqueen]

Are you using your HS Codes? Are your certain that your Customs forms are completed properly and explicitly? I might ask another seller to review them if I was in your position of often-held items at Customs. 

I've seen no delays in delivery dates to the USA lately whatsoever. While I don't ship daily, I'm shipping an average three to five packages per week to the USA and everything I've sent by Tracket Packet since at least March has arrived on time or ahead of time.  I obsessively monitor the progression of my items so that I can circumvent problems with any impatient buyers as they might arise and I can think of exactly once in the past six months that I have had a package destined to the USA delivered late by a day or two. Everything else has been delivered on time or ahead of time by as many as three days early. 

So from my perspective as a seller, the announcement of an ongoing delay at USA Customs puzzles me. 

[fashionoutletdeal]

was just one item that was held for long ,the rest was ok.Yes my custom forms are perfect well done job.Just i guess some mess caused all this .

[fashionoutletdeal]

So far the rest its ok .But if Canada post warned for delays we will need to be on our toes 

[ricarmic]

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@momcqueen wrote:

Are you using your HS Codes? Are your certain that your Customs forms are completed properly and explicitly? I might ask another seller to review them if I was in your position of often-held items at Customs. 

I've seen no delays in delivery dates to the USA lately whatsoever. While I don't ship daily, I'm shipping an average three to five packages per week to the USA and everything I've sent by Tracket Packet since at least March has arrived on time or ahead of time.  I obsessively monitor the progression of my items so that I can circumvent problems with any impatient buyers as they might arise and I can think of exactly once in the past six months that I have had a package destined to the USA delivered late by a day or two. Everything else has been delivered on time or ahead of time by as many as three days early. 

So from my perspective as a seller, the announcement of an ongoing delay at USA Customs puzzles me. 

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Yes it puzzles me too. An official announcement of something that seems to be having little impact (but isn't ebay's fault) vs nothing at all officially about the missing pictures fiasco...which is affecting a large group of items and sellers!

[momcqueen]

I see. Well, with whatever problem might exist at incoming USA Customs, I hope it passes quickly. I looked at the last item I sent to the USA and it had a delivery standard of July 2 but it was delivered yesterday, June 25. That's five business days early, no? I've another two parcels currently in the USA-bound mail-stream so we'll soon see how they fare.

[momcqueen]

I wonder if Canada Post is trying to both make a trade-conflict point as well as proactively distance themselves from any oncoming angry shippers.

Also, I'm worried about that GTC glitch: has ebay offered any actual reassurance that they're going to FIX the affected listings that got wrecked, or are they simply saying they won't wreck any new ones? 

[reallynicestamps]

tyler@ebay

Yes it puzzles me too. An official announcement of something that seems to be having little impact (but isn't ebay's fault) vs nothing at all officially about the missing pictures fiasco...which is affecting a large group of items and sellers!

Also, I'm worried about that GTC glitch: has ebay offered any actual reassurance that they're going to FIX the affected listings that got wrecked, or are they simply saying they won't wreck any new ones? 

Has this been added to the Wednesday Whine and Cheese?

[edubb101]

For what it's worth all my letter mail, small packet, and tracked packet is arriving on time to the USA.