@kennuck42, I'm assuming you mean the new-ish "eBay International Shipping" service as I see you made a similar post about the old Global Shipping Program a couple of years ago.
Unfortunately, the eyeballs you want on your post are over on the .com site's discussion boards. The discussion boards on the Canadian and American sites are quite separate, even though we periodically get visits from a US-based liason between the community and eBay.
I've only purchased one item that was forwarded through eIS and that was early in the summer. Yes, it took almost three weeks to reach me but that was within the delivery time estimate on the listing page and it's also within the delivery time range for items that I order that are shipped directly by USPS to my semi-remote location on Vancouver Island.
It sounds as though you live in a metropolitan area that's close to an Amazon warehouse. Comparing overnight domestic shipping from a warehouse that's a loss leader for the company involved to an international standard ground forwarding service handling items that likely originate from small home businesses is an apples and oranges comparison.
Of course, there's room for improvement, but we also have to remember how good we have it. Unlike most other countries, Canada's pretty tightly economically integrated with the US and the program could take better advantage of that fact. Unfortunately, I suspect the small size of our market doesn't make it an attractive proposition at the moment. When I took an unscientific survey of US sellers many years ago, I found that sales to Canada don't make up a very significant proportion of most sales from eBay US sellers.
