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[lorbay]

Its no wonder mail takes so long to get to Canada. This guy lives near Tacoma WA not far from the boarder from Vancouver BC.
Look where the tracking is going.







Label/Receipt Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Class: Priority Mail International Parcels
Service(s): International Parcels
Status: Processed Through Sort Facility

Your item was processed through our ISC SAN FRANCISCO (USPS) facility on January 19, 2012 at 7:13 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.





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Detailed Results:

Processed Through Sort Facility, January 19, 2012, 7:13 am, ISC SAN FRANCISCO (USPS)
Arrived at Sort Facility, January 19, 2012, 7:02 am, ISC SAN FRANCISCO (USPS)
Dispatched to Sort Facility, January 17, 2012, 5:30 pm, SHELTON, WA 98584
Acceptance, January 17, 2012, 3:09 pm, SHELTON, WA 98584
Electronic Shipping Info Received, January 17, 2012



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[razor524]

UPS took a package of mine from Colorado, destined for Mississippi, to Maine first! I wonder who routes these things?

 

[wiset1]

Crazy! I would like to see some of that Star Trek beam me down scotty technology kick in any time now. As soon as you make an order the item is beamed to your mail box within 5 minutes...wouldn't that be cool?

 

[PTsideshow]

Problem the answer is in the header

Class: Priority Mail International Parcels
Service(s): International Parcels
Status: Processed Through Sort Facility

Your item was processed through our ISC SAN FRANCISCO (USPS) facility

It has to go through one of the scattered INTERNATIONAL Sort centers customs et all whether you need customs approval or not. Still better than having to use a broker to handle the customs paper work!
:clown:

 

[randywa]

If I remember my mail hauling days right, Seattle and Portland both have a an International sort. But that doesn't mean that the guy that loaded the trailer put it in the right maxi.

 

[randyrls]

Crazy! I would like to see some of that Star Trek beam me down scotty technology kick in any time now. As soon as you make an order the item is beamed to your mail box within 5 minutes...wouldn't that be cool?

Nah! I want a replicator! I need 20 Barons, 15 Cambridges, 20 cast aluminite blanks in colors of gold and purple, and a powermatic lathe!

As long as I'm going crazy, I might as well go crazy BIG!!!!!

 

[dogcatcher]

UPS took a package of mine from Colorado, destined for Mississippi, to Maine first! I wonder who routes these things?

My guess would be a bad zip code or the person keying in the numbers hit the wrong one. After the first bar code is applied, no person looks at it until it gets to the keyed in location. Considering the USPS and UPS handle millions a packages a day, a few errors are to be expected. For the service they provide at the cost they charge it is still a bargain, if you don't believe that ask a Canadian what their postage rates are for packages.

 

[Smitty37]

Hmmmm

UPS took a package of mine from Colorado, destined for Mississippi, to Maine first! I wonder who routes these things?

My guess would be a bad zip code or the person keying in the numbers hit the wrong one. After the first bar code is applied, no person looks at it until it gets to the keyed in location. Considering the USPS and UPS handle millions a packages a day, a few errors are to be expected. For the service they provide at the cost they charge it is still a bargain, if you don't believe that ask a Canadian what their postage rates are for packages.[/quote]

I don't know what their rates are but I do know that more than one or two of them has complained when I charge extra for international shipping to Canada.:biggrin: Also, I'm not sure that USPS has as many international sort facilities as they used to. Most of mine go through either Philadelphia, PA, Jamaca, NY or Chicago, IL on their way internationally depending somewhat on where they are going.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Actually, very little mail is sorted by hand...most is done by machines that "read" the bar codes as the mail travels along conveyor belts and is shunted off by mechanical shunts... if two pieces were in close proximity, both could be shunted off onto the correct belt (for one of the pieces - wrong for the other).

 

[lorbay]

UPS took a package of mine from Colorado, destined for Mississippi, to Maine first! I wonder who routes these things?

My guess would be a bad zip code or the person keying in the numbers hit the wrong one. After the first bar code is applied, no person looks at it until it gets to the keyed in location. Considering the USPS and UPS handle millions a packages a day, a few errors are to be expected. For the service they provide at the cost they charge it is still a bargain, if you don't believe that ask a Canadian what their postage rates are for packages.

Yeh you guys have great rates down there. If only we could have flat rate shipping would be an improvement.

Lin.

 

[Smitty37]

Hmmm

UPS took a package of mine from Colorado, destined for Mississippi, to Maine first! I wonder who routes these things?

My guess would be a bad zip code or the person keying in the numbers hit the wrong one. After the first bar code is applied, no person looks at it until it gets to the keyed in location. Considering the USPS and UPS handle millions a packages a day, a few errors are to be expected. For the service they provide at the cost they charge it is still a bargain, if you don't believe that ask a Canadian what their postage rates are for packages.

Yeh you guys have great rates down there. If only we could have flat rate shipping would be an improvement.

Lin.

Yet I have had at least 1 customer up there who won't buy from me because I charge Canadians exactly the difference between US shipping costs and Canadian when I have free shipping to US addresses figured into my price (even though the total price might still be lower than he can get the kits elsewhere).

 

[maxwell_smart007]

I hope you're not talking about me, Smitty - as that's not true for me. I just mentioned that 'discounted shipping in lieu of free shipping would be nice' in a general sense in the marketing thread - not directed at you.

I buy from just about everyone - just not often! I just don't turn as many pens as some!

 

[lorbay]

UPS took a package of mine from Colorado, destined for Mississippi, to Maine first! I wonder who routes these things?

My guess would be a bad zip code or the person keying in the numbers hit the wrong one. After the first bar code is applied, no person looks at it until it gets to the keyed in location. Considering the USPS and UPS handle millions a packages a day, a few errors are to be expected. For the service they provide at the cost they charge it is still a bargain, if you don't believe that ask a Canadian what their postage rates are for packages.

Yeh you guys have great rates down there. If only we could have flat rate shipping would be an improvement.

Lin.

Yet I have had at least 1 customer up there who won't buy from me because I charge Canadians exactly the difference between US shipping costs and Canadian when I have free shipping to US addresses figured into my price (even though the total price might still be lower than he can get the kits elsewhere).

LeRoy you have always treated me fair when it comes to shipping even when you have free shipping to the US and I pay the difference its still OK with me.

Lin.

 

[Smitty37]

Not You

I hope you're not talking about me, Smitty - as that's not true for me. I just mentioned that 'discounted shipping in lieu of free shipping would be nice' in a general sense in the marketing thread - not directed at you.

I buy from just about everyone - just not often! I just don't turn as many pens as some!

You aren't the one Andrew.

 

[maxwell_smart007]

You aren't the one Andrew.

Thank you, Smitty - I was worried that perhaps you had misinterpreted what I had said, or perhaps that I had misspoke, in the market research thread. Thank you for responding!

Andrew