These guys honestly do things that baffle me

I've had packages stuffed into my mailbox before to the point where the box is deformed and I can't even take the thing out. Or they do the typical sticking of the delivery notice on the door even though they didn't even try...last time the guy didn't even bother taking the package out of the vehicle

And of course somehow the large envelopes that clearly say "DO NOT BEND" somehow end up bent.

Definitely going the Flex route; speaking to the Ombudsman is generally useless as well, sure I end up receiving my package instead of it being completely missing but it still took a week or two, if not three over the projected "delivery date"

Not sure if pure incompetency or laziness or both

if it's shipping from anywhere but Canada Post I ship to my work since it's open 7 days a week and guaranteed someone is there the whole day. The reason I won't use my work address if it's Canada Post anymore is because of where I work, and the postal code associated to my work office they default all packages and letters to the main City Hall building vs delivering it directly to said office. It makes it more annoying for me since I gotta drag my ass over to the Hall and only during normal business hours.

Or I just utilize my parents address a lot since they're retired and are often home.

Hmmmmmmm.......... I've bought shit loads of stuff from Amazon.ca. Could they all have been sent via Canada Post? I'll have to check. The Tamiya stuff from Japan would be Canada Post for sure.

I think Amazon.ca ended their contact with Canada Post recently and only use Purolator now

Amazon did use Canada Post before for the stuff i ordered in the past

they have a contract with purolator now, but doesn't mean they dont use other carriers :) they also are starting to have their own delivery vans! if you havent noticed the "amazon" pedo vans haha


Also, what do you guys mean by Flex Delivery ? Whats the difference between doing that type of delivery or just to your home

I've ordered stuff using Amazon prime the past week or so, utilizing their one day delivery. They used Dynamex to deliver. I don't like their service since they knock on the door once and leave package there...

flex delivery basically allows you to get parcels/mail shipped directly to any Canada post office and you go pick up whenever it's convenient within 15 days. They give you your own PO box address.

vs

just to your home - mailman may never come, may not leave a delivery notice, no more missing /stolen packages/packages being left out in the open on your front door, no bent documents etc

absolutely love the flex delivery option and highly recommend it to you guys. It's free too

Once, so far, I've had a delivery from Amazon's own guys. It was a window regulator. I was still at work, the delivery guy called my cell, asked if I was at home. I told him my parents were, then he said that he thought they were afraid to answer the door and asked if he could leave it at the door, which I was fine with anyway.
I called my parents right after to let them know and they had no idea the delivery guy was even there looool.

I did once get a package that was nearly exactly the size of the communal oversized boxes (the ones where they leave a key in your smaller box so you ca open it). It fit fine when the postie put it in, since their key opens the entire front, but with the frame around the individual door the box was a very tight fit. I had to stab my key into the box and slowly wiggle it back and forth to scrap it down both sides til it came out. My neighbours must have thought I was an idiot standing there taking 15 minutes to get my mail :lol

theres a difference between buying from actual "ship and sold by amazon/fulfilled by amazon" which comes directly from amazon's warehouse meaning shipped via purolator. and then theres buying from 3rd party retailers on amazon, which is probably ur case, shipped by the sellers choice of carrier, which is japan mail which becomes canada post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...O5&sh=9f3926dd

I know that our packages are important and it's frustrating when you don't receive them on time, so hopefully this comment from reddit sheds some light on the situation.

Worst time to be a mailman with all this snow.

A mailman dropped off some mail on Saturday......

Oddly enough, one of them being a recall for my mazda3............:pokerface:

Don't think so

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/help/custom...?nodeId=918804

It is not that hard to fact check this:noyoudidnt:

working at Fedex as a courier, it wasnt much better for us. Not sure what that poster meant by we gave them our overflow..we were pretty swamped ourselves. UPS , not sure bout purolator, at least hires extra personnel to go with their drivers to tackle more in each route. And we dont get vacation during holidays, we go on a blackout where everyone has to be working lol And the snow really screwed us this year, we can't deliver a lot of packages when people live in really big hills and/or streets dont get plowed and we have chances of getting more stuck than usual

December sucks for all postal workers so you need to cut them some slack, especially with how cold the weather has been the past few weeks (and all the ice on the roads).

You can call Canada Post if they leaves a notice on your door without knocking or ringing the door bell. That's one of their biggest complaints, so they've been trying to crack down on that. Friend that delivers mail told me that the other night during Xmas dinner.

^ True... I was at the post office picking up a package the other day and the lady in front of me was ranting away that she stayed home all day and no one rang her doorbell just found the notice... and the post office lady showed her how to read the card and find the letter carrier's ID# and call in to complain about it.

I'm shocked they let workers take vacation /timeoff during the busiest month of the year :O

#union