Canada Post

[mbarrick]

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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[valerian.livejournal.com]

I gotta laud them too, as far as service goes (pricing is a different matter however). Only once that I know of, out of shipping more than a thousand items in the past year & a half, to destinations all over the world, has anyone ever reported they never got their item. I realize part of the responsibility lies in the hands of the local carrier, but it isn't going to get to the local carrier if CP and Canada Customs don't work well together.

Plus their free online shipping service is a freaking godsend for me (not to mention my small business discount)!!