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Canada Post
Topic Started: Aug 25 2012, 12:55 AM (121 Views)
Darcie	Aug 25 2012, 12:55 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I mailed something to my daughter in Montreal (a seven hour drive) and it took five days to get there. I figure that Canada post put their employee on a bike to bring it there. She mailed something to me on Wednesday, we shall see how long it takes to get here. I have consistently found Fedex to be less expensive, faster and more reliable for parcels.



campy	Aug 25 2012, 01:13 AM Post #2
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	Darcie Aug 25 2012, 12:55 AM I mailed something to my daughter in Montreal (a seven hour drive) and it took five days to get there. I figure that Canada post put their employee on a bike to bring it there. She mailed something to me on Wednesday, we shall see how long it takes to get here. I have consistently found Fedex to be less expensive, faster and more reliable for parcels. Sure but you pay Fedex more. Question: Did you send it airmail or regular mail? I mailed a parcel to the U.S. via Canada Post and was surprised how quickly it got there.



FuzzyO	Aug 25 2012, 01:15 AM Post #3
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Darcie says she pays less with Fedex, not more.



margrace	Aug 25 2012, 01:30 AM Post #4
Gold Star Member Posts: 5,367 Group: Member Member #723 Joined: April 1, 2010	I left my sun glasses at my sister in laws and she tried to mail them to me. Well the price stopped her $9 to send them from Beaverton to Burks falls. I now have them when we went to visit.



Darcie	Aug 25 2012, 01:35 AM Post #5
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Last month I sent a blanket I had knitted to my daughter in Vancouver. I first went to Canada Post and they wanted $29 something or other. Then I went to Fedex and they charged me $17 something or other, and it got there in 3 days. Previously I had done the same with sending another daughter a knitted blanket to Montreal, I saved $7 in that case. Last Christmas I mailed a Christmas parcel for my greatgrands to Vancouver, after New Years I had a notice that I had to pay $49 to get it back as it was the wrong address. When I phoned Winnipeg they had a scan of the parcel and found that it was the correct address but that not even a card had been left. I am presuming the person was too lazy to go there, it was an office open from 8 am to 10 pm. I paid the required fee to get it back and sent it on by Fedex for $23 which was $8 less that what it had originally cost me. Have to say that Canada Post did reimburse me. T'was too little too late to disappoint my great grands since I had mailed it at the beginning of December to make sure it got there.



Bitsy	Aug 25 2012, 01:37 AM Post #6
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	FedEx is much more expensive than the US post, I wonder what is different in Canada?



Darcie	Aug 25 2012, 01:53 AM Post #7
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I used to think that also, but I have been very surprised that it has not been so for me. The difference might be that I go to the Fedex office to mail stuff, just like I go to a post office. I figure they probably charge if they have to pick it up.



campy	Aug 25 2012, 02:02 AM Post #8
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	We have to compare apples to apples when it comes to Parcels and how you want them shipped. Size and weight come into consideration. I did a comparison on a 5 pound parcel from London to Montreal 10 x 10 x 10.5 Ordinary shipping and wrap the parcel yourself. Canada Post 25.76 Fedex 34.92.



lilal	Aug 25 2012, 04:37 AM Post #9
Blue Star Member Posts: 1,545 Group: Member Member #206 Joined: February 2, 2006	I mailed identical parcels- size & weight - by Canada Post from Chilliwack BC. One to Spruce Grove, Alberta and the other to Mesa, AZ. The one to Alberta cost me $7.53 the one to Mesa $5.19. The lady at the sub post office didn't have a clue as to why that was either! We are lucky to live within a half hour's drive to a U.S. post office where we now mail anything going to Mesa at about half the cost of mailing it at home.



campy	Aug 25 2012, 04:40 AM Post #10
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	lilal Aug 25 2012, 04:37 AM I mailed identical parcels- size & weight - by Canada Post from Chilliwack BC. One to Spruce Grove, Alberta and the other to Mesa, AZ. The one to Alberta cost me $7.53 the one to Mesa $5.19. The lady at the sub post office didn't have a clue as to why that was either! We are lucky to live within a half hour's drive to a U.S. post office where we now mail anything going to Mesa at about half the cost of mailing it at home. Canada and the U.S. have mailing agreements with each other. If the parcel is being delivered in the U.S. you are actually getting the U.S. rate.



haili	Aug 25 2012, 05:48 AM Post #11
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,084 Group: Member Member #387 Joined: September 15, 2006	I send cards to different parts of Ont. and the time varies from a week to a couple of days - to the same town!



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