Everyone likes to slag Canada Post, but for a change I am going to laud them. I have a package (my new lens) on the way from New York. I was given a USPS tracking number. For the past several days the USPS tracking has ended at "Arrived Abroad" and that's it. On a lark I decided to go to the Canada Post website and enter the United States Postal Service tracking number -- and it worked! It not only shows the item being received in Canada and passing through customs (it was released from customs this morning), but shows the full trace back through the U.S. Postal system as well. Because the U.S. steps shown all say "International item...", it is probably fair to assume this also works for items from any foreign country that offers mail tracking, so that once items are received in Canada from Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or where-ever and are no longer being tracked by the country of origin, you can enter the foreign tracking number at Canada Post's website and continue to track it. That is pretty damn useful!
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Date: 2005-10-20 08:57 pm (UTC)It's quiet yet common knowledge that they had some huge inside fraud and theft problems with staff around four or five years ago. I heard through reliable work sources (namely my CP-rep at the time) that at the main post office downtown (the one by the library) an internal theft ring pocketed somewhere between $1,000,000 and $1,400,000 dollars from birthday cards before getting caught. A pleasant side affect to all of this is that in their need to improve security, the process and technological changes have improved service.