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Then I remembered buying duck stamps from a similar seller on Ebay (maybe the same one) where the letter took months to reach me.
By the end of February I had written it off.
It showed up on April 3rd. Stamp on the cover reads December 14th, 2022.
How on earth is it possible for letters from this seller to get consistently delayed by 3-4 months? If someone was walking with this letter from Minnesota(?) they would have arrived sooner.
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Hey Jules. Weird Gremlins seem to be afoot. I received an envelope today from a US member whose stuff consistently gets to me in 1-2 weeks. It was postmarked January 19th and was in pristine condition (so no “hurricane season” excuses from the postal authorities)! Go figure!
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The letters probably been jammed in a mailbag when "emptied".
The mailbag has been left in a truck.
The item has been jammed in the auto sorting machine or lying underneath the sorting machine.
The item or mailbag has been left in an aircraft and been all around the world enjoying its vacation.
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My best guess is those agencies that hold up mail for import and GST taxes flagged this one as carrying “merchandise”. The envelope gets pulled from the mail stream then sits there waiting for someone to decide what to do with the darn thing. Was it opened?
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Agree with Theresa, commercial return address and "Do Not Bend" will automatically draw attention in the absence of a customs form on cross border mail. Most make it through but some are returned to sender. Considering the lost dollar amount involved in total (for both the US and Canada) it will eventually become an issue.
In the meantime if you are sending merchandise as documents to save $8 or $10 please don't complain about the high cost of postage, Your actions are contributing to it.
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As I just mentioned in another post I just got an order from Sweden that was only sent on March 27th - very impressive!
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U.S. to Canada and Canada to the U.S. has been slow for the last two years. Then one gets pulled aside and this happens. It’s like the two agencies are fighting one another.
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Theresa, the letter was not opened and neither was the one that was delayed years ago.
The most opened letters I have ever had are the ones mailed from the Netherlands - both letters and parcels from there get regularly checked.
"In the meantime if you are sending merchandise as documents to save $8 or $10 please don't complain about the high cost of postage"
This reminds me of how I mailed reel parts to Europe 3 months ago. The reels parts were the size of a coin , made of plastic and slightly raised, so after I put thin sheets of bubble wrap in the latter, it was a bit thicker, but below 30g. There were two identical parts to mail - I deliberately bought two so if one got lost, at least the second one will arrive.
The first one made it through for the regular postage of $2.71 no problem.
The second one was returned after some 2-3 weeks. I added a couple of bucks to cover the oversized letter rate and it too arrived in the destination point.
Now get that. The part's cost would have been pennies but given they can be found nowhere else , the Vancouver based shop charged $8/piece, delivery from Vancouver to me in BC (same province) was $15. If they were to mail them directly to Europe, they would have charged $60 !!
At the same time I am buying fishing tackle from China that comes with either zero shipping charge, or close to nothing and all items HAVE A TRACKING NUMBER LIKE ANY REGISTERED LETTER IN CANADA !! It blows me away, as the parcel would at least cover this same leg in Canada - Vancouver-Terrace, where Canada Post would charge $14-15. I have also seen very low rates on registered parcels from Germany.
I think just as many other things our postal system is messed up.
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Received the following from the Netherlands 10 days after purchase. I thought that was pretty quick with no problems. Shipping was only $3.
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"I am buying fishing tackle from China that comes with either zero shipping charge, or close to nothing and all items HAVE A TRACKING NUMBER LIKE ANY REGISTERED LETTER IN CANADA"
China has been considered a "developing nation" by the UPU and has been allowed to ship items to the US and other nations at far below cost. Keep in mind they were selling items for 99 cents including shipping to US addresses on Ebay and making money,. Our government threatened to pull out of the UPU and the treaty with China is being modified in stages which will be complete in 2025. It has nothing to do with either the US or Canadian Post Offices which have been required to subsidize Chinese postage for years.
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This can be the case with China but then Germany is hardly a developing country. The IPU agreements are a mess. But I am sure instead of rates going down in Canada to match those in Germany, what we pay to have goods delivered from China or Germany will go up.
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I bought a couple of fishing license stamps on Ebay last year. When they did not arrive by mid January 2023, I thought they must have been delayed.
Then I remembered buying duck stamps from a similar seller on Ebay (maybe the same one) where the letter took months to reach me.
By the end of February I had written it off.
It showed up on April 3rd. Stamp on the cover reads December 14th, 2022.
How on earth is it possible for letters from this seller to get consistently delayed by 3-4 months? If someone was walking with this letter from Minnesota(?) they would have arrived sooner.
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Hey Jules. Weird Gremlins seem to be afoot. I received an envelope today from a US member whose stuff consistently gets to me in 1-2 weeks. It was postmarked January 19th and was in pristine condition (so no “hurricane season” excuses from the postal authorities)! Go figure!
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The letters probably been jammed in a mailbag when "emptied".
The mailbag has been left in a truck.
The item has been jammed in the auto sorting machine or lying underneath the sorting machine.
The item or mailbag has been left in an aircraft and been all around the world enjoying its vacation.
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My best guess is those agencies that hold up mail for import and GST taxes flagged this one as carrying “merchandise”. The envelope gets pulled from the mail stream then sits there waiting for someone to decide what to do with the darn thing. Was it opened?
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re: How is this even possible - USA to Canada - 4 months !
Agree with Theresa, commercial return address and "Do Not Bend" will automatically draw attention in the absence of a customs form on cross border mail. Most make it through but some are returned to sender. Considering the lost dollar amount involved in total (for both the US and Canada) it will eventually become an issue.
In the meantime if you are sending merchandise as documents to save $8 or $10 please don't complain about the high cost of postage, Your actions are contributing to it.
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re: How is this even possible - USA to Canada - 4 months !
As I just mentioned in another post I just got an order from Sweden that was only sent on March 27th - very impressive!
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U.S. to Canada and Canada to the U.S. has been slow for the last two years. Then one gets pulled aside and this happens. It’s like the two agencies are fighting one another.
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re: How is this even possible - USA to Canada - 4 months !
Theresa, the letter was not opened and neither was the one that was delayed years ago.
The most opened letters I have ever had are the ones mailed from the Netherlands - both letters and parcels from there get regularly checked.
"In the meantime if you are sending merchandise as documents to save $8 or $10 please don't complain about the high cost of postage"
This reminds me of how I mailed reel parts to Europe 3 months ago. The reels parts were the size of a coin , made of plastic and slightly raised, so after I put thin sheets of bubble wrap in the latter, it was a bit thicker, but below 30g. There were two identical parts to mail - I deliberately bought two so if one got lost, at least the second one will arrive.
The first one made it through for the regular postage of $2.71 no problem.
The second one was returned after some 2-3 weeks. I added a couple of bucks to cover the oversized letter rate and it too arrived in the destination point.
Now get that. The part's cost would have been pennies but given they can be found nowhere else , the Vancouver based shop charged $8/piece, delivery from Vancouver to me in BC (same province) was $15. If they were to mail them directly to Europe, they would have charged $60 !!
At the same time I am buying fishing tackle from China that comes with either zero shipping charge, or close to nothing and all items HAVE A TRACKING NUMBER LIKE ANY REGISTERED LETTER IN CANADA !! It blows me away, as the parcel would at least cover this same leg in Canada - Vancouver-Terrace, where Canada Post would charge $14-15. I have also seen very low rates on registered parcels from Germany.
I think just as many other things our postal system is messed up.
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re: How is this even possible - USA to Canada - 4 months !
Received the following from the Netherlands 10 days after purchase. I thought that was pretty quick with no problems. Shipping was only $3.
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"I am buying fishing tackle from China that comes with either zero shipping charge, or close to nothing and all items HAVE A TRACKING NUMBER LIKE ANY REGISTERED LETTER IN CANADA"
China has been considered a "developing nation" by the UPU and has been allowed to ship items to the US and other nations at far below cost. Keep in mind they were selling items for 99 cents including shipping to US addresses on Ebay and making money,. Our government threatened to pull out of the UPU and the treaty with China is being modified in stages which will be complete in 2025. It has nothing to do with either the US or Canadian Post Offices which have been required to subsidize Chinese postage for years.
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This can be the case with China but then Germany is hardly a developing country. The IPU agreements are a mess. But I am sure instead of rates going down in Canada to match those in Germany, what we pay to have goods delivered from China or Germany will go up.
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