I'm 1 hr west of Craig in Banff/Canmore & i've frequently had packages from Japan delivered in 4 days from ordering. Shipping via DHL. I ordered a full size guitar case from the UK and it arrived in 5 days via DHL.
Are you in a remote area? I can regularly get things to Calgary from the UK by DHL in 2 days, similarly from Japan.
Geez, some of you do manage to get fast service.
Here in Canada, I can't seem to receive in anything less than 2 weeks. And that's even when using courier services.
Heck, it even once took Canada Post a full month to just deliver a letter in the same city!
I more than once had to call the customer service to try and figure out what was going on and the last time, the lady on the phone told me that "Canada Post is not responsible for delivering mail that is not shipped within Canada with a tracking number".
If the USPS runs slower than a glacier, I think that Canada Post is more on a tectonic plate scale!
This is really surprising. Last time I got a package from California via DHL, it took them a 1½ week...I'm 1 hr west of Craig in Banff/Canmore & i've frequently had packages from Japan delivered in 4 days from ordering. Shipping via DHL. I ordered a full size guitar case from the UK and it arrived in 5 days via DHL.
This is really surprising. Last time I got a package from California via DHL, it took them a 1½ week...
That is plus 40$ customs and brokerage fees paid at the door.
This is something I never could understand. We have free trade agreements, proximity, infrastructure yet a box of oranges from South Africa takes less time to get here than a piece of computer equipment.
Shipments from other continents fly right into Canada. That would be my guess.
Not necessarily. When I bought a lens from Japan that came FedEx, it went from Tokyo to Memphis, then Memphis to Calgary. Lots of backtracking, but they have everything coordinated so that the planes arrive into the hub around midnight, the packages get sorted and go out again around 3am to arrive at the destination city in the morning for delivery that day.
Not necessarily. When I bought a lens from Japan that came FedEx, it went from Tokyo to Memphis, then Memphis to Calgary. Lots of backtracking, but they have everything coordinated so that the planes arrive into the hub around midnight, the packages get sorted and go out again around 3am to arrive at the destination city in the morning for delivery that day.
This is something I never could understand. We have free trade agreements, proximity, infrastructure yet a box of oranges from South Africa takes less time to get here than a piece of computer equipment.
I know, but it's still quite baffling.
The worst I ever got was a DVD rom in a Toronto-Montreal package that went Toronto, Atlanta, Kentucky, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal... Too bad I didn't have a camera on board to film it all... that was FedEx...
On the good side, the box wasn't lost.
Yes, Fed-ex in N America seems to take some sort of pinball trajectory....
Maybe they have a Plinko machine to set the routes!Also we have to pay for the ping pong ball bouncing.
And UPS is miles ahead from Purolator.To Canada anyway, FedEx is miles ahead of UPS.
Maybe they have a Plinko machine to set the routes!
And UPS is miles ahead from Purolator.
Anybody ever seen them drop an entire shipment of computers and refuse to send them back?
Or anybody seen one of their poor delivery drivers finishing his rounds with a flashlight?
Or have to fill-up a shipping form on a carbon paper slip when everybody had moved away from this?
Have their driver go five times around the block because he can't find your address even if you turned all the house lights on? And then you have to go to the curb to flag him so he can find your home?
That's my Purolator service experience so far.
Purolator is 90% owned by Canada Post, so that might explain things.
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