So, Eta C, is it your position then, that if you were to ship something to Canada through the USPS, you would necessarily know the details of what happens after the hand-off to Canada Post, or would you trust that the USPS and Canada Post have already worked out the logistics to their mutual satisfaction? The former is not a reasonable position. The latter is.

Sohmer made a mistake, just the once, in offering that rate. He did not have sufficient information, for whatever reason, to rule out that option. Nor, apparently, did his American clients who chose that shipping option from the several he'd listed (including overnight). If his American clients walked into that trap, I don't think it's reasonable to castigate a first-time canadian shipper for not recognizing what "media rate" means filtered through a non-USPS explanation.

You might also want to re-read my initial post with a bit less chip on that shoulder. I wasn't castigating USPS specifically for media rate, I was commenting solely on the fact that parcels shipped "ground" from Canada and advertised 8-10 days to the US can apparently end up on media rate without the shipper's knowledge. As far as I remember, LICD now ships UPS ground to the states, and it's been working well for them.

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