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Originally Posted by Moose
Eta C, that's more than a little unfair. The problem with that shipping option wasn't evident until it was much too late to do anything about it.
Canada Post's shipping options, except Same-day Air (which is actually done by Purolator, a separate private courier), all apparently hand off to USPS at the border. Canada Post says 8-10 days for its slowest ground option to the US (and has no trouble at all doing 3-5 domestically). If Canada Post is being told one thing while USPS is doing another, then LICD is just as much a victim as their clients were.
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Do you have any evidence that that was indeed the case? I'm quite sure that Canada Post knows about media rate.
And the thing about media rate is that it's very helpful for certain things. I have several enormous boxes of books that I have to ship to Ohio soonish. (My best friend has moved back there again.) Sending them UPS or USPS regular rates would be pretty prohibitive. There are maybe a dozen of these boxes, too. I don't know how much lower media rate is--I haven't looked into it yet--but it's a lot. I don't know when the boxes will get there, the USPS doesn't know when the boxes will get there, and neither does my best friend. But they
will, and it'll be way cheaper than any other shipping method.