Wednesday, February 10, 2010

It's Not Really Expedited

I ordered a very small hard drive for one of our computers to be mailed from Richmond, about 800 km away, a day's drive through the mountains. The supplier sent me a tracking number and I watched as the package was picked up by Canada Post and sent to Mississauga, Ontario. There it sat until the supplier contacted Canada Post and initiated a search for the wayward package. Finally, about 2 weeks after it was originally mailed, it arrived. The transplant worked and the patient is doing fine.

It's interesting that the person the package was mailed to can't really talk to Canada Post about such misdirections, despite having paid for the item. They will only act on complaints from the shipper. Whatever.....

I wonder if anyone in Mississauga looked at the parcel and wondered why something intended for somewhere in the Kootenays was sitting in Ontario? Apparently not.

Expedited Parcel Post could be the wrong term for this "service".

1 comment:

The Clothesline said...

Thank you for reviving my sick computer! xyl