USPS - Mailing from US to Canada
 

(inspired by juicy's post)

I sent a check to a designer on the 19th, i walked it right into the USPS center and asked them to get this there overnight.

Costed me $15 dollars for the service.

Here it is on the 23rd and its still not there yet!!!!!

Naturally the designer wont release my work, and i dont blame him ... but thats why i said OVERNIGHT IT!!!

I do have a tracking number, and i dunno wtf to do with it, lol

has anyone else overnighted anything to canada and had it actually overnighted?

go to the ups site and track it. it may have got held up at customs. that happens alot more frequently now.

dumb fuck lol overnight shit with fed ex and ups only neve the USPS fucker take my word for it

We do a lot of Priority Mial to Canada, it can take 2 weeks instead of 3-4 days. The border is a black hole

yup...if you didn't include a contact phone number for him it is probably sitting in the UPS office.

I mailed 2-3 day gaurantee once and it took 5 days, was a laptop

UPS standard or expedited to canadad requires 3 copies of an invoice for the customs shitheads for packages. I bet you you shit is sitting in customs right now.

When i shipped the contest books to the people in canada UPS requires so much red tape customs crap without it nobody would have gotten there books on time

Last I heard, which was about a year ago, the USPS Overnight and the Canadian equivalent, Canada Priority Post, were not integrated, so you could not send mail overnight from one country to the other using those two services (well actually you can send it - but it doesn't arrive overnight). They should have told you that at the post office (assuming that is still the way it is).

FedEx is always the way to go for overnight between the USA and Canada.

Yup. FEDEX, next day service.

no shit, FedEx that stuff. it's easy. USPS will say next day, but they will never guarantee anything. and the fact that they don't have any kind of tracking sucks dick.

yup, fedex rocks.

Fedex is the *only* way to go; avoid USPS and especially UPS (the charge a huge "customs brokerage fee" to bring stuff across the border.)

USPS seems to be a bit of a joke. We wanted to ship a small package (Bday gift for my wife's dad) from NYC to Ottawa; it's about a 6-7 hour drive. USPS said it would take them *10 WEEKS* via their cheapest service. WTF do they do with the package? Store for 9 weeks then send it out?

Ars has been UPSing my overnight check,and it was late once out of the whole year.i have no complaints

here is the tracking number for USPS:

EU81 7617 289U S


I did give them a phone number, and they said it would be there the next day ... this is fucking bullshit, i want my damn designs!!!

You entered EU81 7617 289U S


Your item was processed and left our 11460 facility on May 19, 2003. Status is updated every evening. Please check again later.

Track & Confirm


Delivery Status

You entered EU81 7617 289U S

Your item was processed and left our 11460 facility on May 19, 2003. Status is updated every evening. Please check again later.

wtf?

Its updated every evening but the last contact with the package is on the 19th?!?

That must mean my shit is just sitting there .... FUCK!!!

Delivery Status


You entered EU81 7617 289U S

Your item was processed and left our 11460 facility on May 19, 2003. Status is updated every evening. Please check again later.


Wonderful tracking eh?

quiet, is this normal from your experience?

Have you ever used USPS for an overnight service accrosss borders? I wonder if maybe i fucked it up somehow.

I went to the window and said "i need this there overnight" so she said "oh you have to fill this form out, and put it in an EXPRESS envelope" and i did it.

She processed it and i payed $15

FedEx's overnight from US to Canada takes less than 48 hours

If you ship to Canada:
If you are ok with a person send it via FedEX
If you don't like a person send it via USPS
If you HATE a person send it via UPS

The scanning systems (bar code) are not compatible between USPS and Canada Post. Thats why its good to use a worldwide courier with one database, ie FEDEX.

lil2rich, you did fill out PS Form 2976 Customs CN 22 and affix the green sticker part to the outside of the package right?
Listed on it a detailed description of contents and value in US dollars?

he sent a check, in an envelope.
should cost 15.50 to Canada.

I never send letters, is it different for that?
Less crap, no customs forms, etc. ?

The to and from waybills have a spot on them to describe the contents.

For a check, you could use - "documents, value $1.00 USD" that should be sufficent.

yes it was a check ... within a plain envelope, and within an express envelope.

Yes i filled out the green sticker declaring the value.

If this is such a known issue, why the fuck dont they tell me that instead of charging me an overnight fee?!??!

In November 2002 I sent a package to my girlfriend's parents in Japan via surface mail. Cost me £37 (about $55). Six months later... May 2003... the stupid post man knocks on the door and wakes me up. The heavily battered, opened-by-customs package is returned with "not claimed" scribbled on it. Bullshit! They didn't even receive a notification that a package was waiting for them. Now I have this sitting in my office:

http://www.hotlinkpro.com/media/package.jpg

Postal service sucks dick. :321GFY

I have the returned package and the original postage receipt. I'm in two minds whether to go down there and kick up a fuss until they give me a damn refund. There must be some compensation for this kind of thing.

:feels-hot :feels-hot :feels-hot

what's inside of it?

always use fedex for int'l, although they lost $9k in cash the other day :(

Cash is never good to send. couriers have to eat too.

Update : still not here.

yo rich next time contact me before you mail shit or anybody else
for the last 2 years i learned through trial and error what to use for what

I got a check over night once, from San Diego, took 13 hours, UPS overnight shipping, 13 hours to get to montreal, and I didn't even sign for it, the guy left it in my mailbox around 9am (got to mtl at like 4 or 5am)