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Wondering what has happened to the items that I have purchased from US
buyers in the last month or so, I was about to initiate contact with each of
them who used USPS to see whether there was a prospective delivery time / date.
Before doing so I was made privy to the following information.
This morning in the Vancouver "Sun" daily newspaper there was a brief
article advising that the USPS had apparently unilaterally decided to route all
parcels destined for western Canada (presumbaly from Manitoba to British
Columbia) through Vancouver's main post office! As a result of this
decision there has been an ongoing backup of parcels required to go through
Canada Customs, so much so that there are now in excess of 150,000 parcels
waiting for clearance; Canada Customs states that it hopes to clear these
parcels before Christmas(!).
So, a parcel sent from Green Bay to Winnipeg is now not going through a
direct or even mid-west US route, but is going to the west coast then back east
- incredible but true, sadly. Who knows what protocols are in place in these
circumstances for parcels to be lined-up to wait to clear Customs.
If the time estimate is accurate and there is the usual rush for parcels
being sent for Christmas, then it is likely that these too will fall well
behind.
The backup also means the 30 day so-called "protections" for fraud or
non-delivery offered by ebay, Paypal and others, such as they are - could
probably be "frustrated", which in contract law generally means useless and
inaccessible due to circumstances not in the parties' control and not the
parties' fault.
As if the whole delivery "thing" weren't fraught enough.
Patience and perhaps a tracking number on all more recent purchases might
be a comfort though more costly.
Craig, Vancouver
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Title: Message
- Re: [MOPO] USPS delivery to western Canada Craig Goebel
- Re: [MOPO] USPS delivery to western Canada Tom Martin
