| Meiczyslaw | 18 Mar 2013 1:42 p.m. PST |
POLTRONS! ECTOPLASMS! PICKLED SEA GHERKINS! (Etc) My favorite was "caroling ape beans". |
Chef Lackey Rich  | 18 Mar 2013 1:47 p.m. PST |
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| The Tin Dictator | 18 Mar 2013 2:01 p.m. PST |
To be fair, the USA is a big country.
And one state looks like another state.
And in Quebec they speak French.
So………… I blame the French ! As the saying goes…"Close enough for government work."
You should be happy that it made it here at all. |
| wrgmr1 | 18 Mar 2013 5:23 p.m. PST |
Many Many moons ago….
I was working at the airport for a company that loaded an unloaded Canada post Trucks for CP Airlines.
One bag of mail destined for New York out of Toronto came back from Kuala Lumpur. |
 John the OFM  | 18 Mar 2013 6:45 p.m. PST |
So………… I blame the French ! That covers a lot. |
| IWillNeverGrowUpGames | 18 Mar 2013 6:58 p.m. PST |
Ha! I am right there with you on Canada Post .. then again USPS has done the same to me many times. My latest Canada Post one was last week. I ordered some games from a store in Toronto (I live 30 minutes east of the city) and they shipped it out Priority Courier via Canada Post. The SAME DAY they sent me the tracking information, Canada post's tracking service had the package as DELIVERED SUCCESSFULLY (at 11am) and PICKED UP FROM CUSTOMER (at 4:30pm). How the heck do you deliver a package that hasn't even been picked up? /facepalm 2 days later it arrives on my doorstep. Big box of expensive games dropped on my stoop on a major street and they left. No doorbell. No knock. I was home. /sigh. At least it came to the right address though. |
| Rrobbyrobot | 19 Mar 2013 5:32 a.m. PST |
I see your public schools are catching up with ours. You poor, poor people. |
| Rrobbyrobot | 19 Mar 2013 5:16 p.m. PST |
So, Tennessee is the center of the universe? Even if only for Fedex? That's just plain weird. |
| IWillNeverGrowUpGames | 20 Mar 2013 11:12 a.m. PST |
You know Ditto .. I thought about that afterwards and realized that EVERy time I order something from the US and have tracking it always seems to go to Tennessee first. So yeah, Tennessee is the center of the mailing universe it seems, for more than just FedEx too. Good to hear you got a refund though. If you pay for priority service, you should darn well GET priority service! |
| spontoon | 06 Oct 2013 6:47 a.m. PST |
As a loyal CPC employee I should regale you with stories of items with virtually no address on them that we have successfully delivered to the correct person. You wouldn't believe some of them. " The red house next to Bill's", that sort of stuff. Surprises me sometimes that any mail amkes it to the corrct address. Come on folks! Name, Street name; #; Postal code. Get all that we don't even need the province. So, let's blame it on the French and the Yankees! |
| doug1717 | 06 Oct 2013 12:36 p.m. PST |
Canadian mail men make $75,000 USD a year to deliver flyers and drop parcels at the wrong house.
The corporation has hired more contractors but the union pushes for those wages to increase and make them less efficient, all the while they campaign for more unionization.
Starting wages for part time inside workers is $25.00 USD an hour.
It's a mess. |
| andygamer | 06 Oct 2013 10:49 p.m. PST |
And the Royal Mail's Parcel Farce, er, Force initially delivered one of my Front Rank packages to Sydney, Australia rather than to Toronto, Canada! I can only imagine we colonials all look alike or they got Sydney, Nova Scotia confused with the bigger place. (BTW, Front Rank got on the posties' butts immediately and I had the package quite quickly afterwards.) But I shouldn't complain as the Royal Mail made up for it when my next Front Rank package being sent to my business office that's for a privately-owned ambulance service was marked by the R.M. as "emergency medical supplies" and I received it in two(!) days. |
