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Oh Canada! A mild postal rant

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baseballcardstoreca

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Saturday, December 18, 2021 10:54 PM

Lol, sometimes you gotta grab the mule by the horns or what was that old saying again?

A pleasure and you had the wife chuckling about popeyes chicken you nailed it right on,

Can't believe i have to go a whole province over just to get Popeyes, Mr Subs, Mary Browns, Arby's etc...

CollectorTBNL wrote:

.. And a few hours after having posting this, Steven arrived at my house for a personal delivery of a box of cards. Much faster than the pack mule delivery service.

Thanks and hope you had a safe drive back in the snow!

baseballcardstoreca wrote:

Now there is a video i would watch,

9 pocket pages?

Blargh wrote:

I have shipped "letters" of about 250 cards within Canada. I keep a kitchen scale and 3D printed slot of doom to ensure they stay as letters and not packages.

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baseballcardstoreca

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Saturday, December 18, 2021 11:01 PM

Probably not,

You know how somewhere along that line they want to nail Canadians for "Customs and/or Duties" whereas Canadians can send loads to the US and Americans never get charged any extra fees.

The advantage of Chit Chats is they drive over the border, which when they were closed they were an essential service and the prices are better than Canada post, with the ease of printing an all in one postage and shipping label right from the cpu.

Shaw Racing wrote:

You can get them to ship to Canada as well?

baseballcardstoreca wrote:

A tip for fellow Canadians, i use a service/company called Chit Chats, they bring all my US mail across the border at very good rates.

If you have 1 reasonably close to your area it may be worth going through them and even mailing within Canada they have a better rate than Canada Post not major savings but still less than the post office.

As most already know the trick with Canada Post is to get it as flat as possible so it fits through their outdated slot template contraption, because if it's thicker than what fits the rates skyrocket

rmpaq5 wrote:

The other day I mailed some secret santa gifts for my wife to the states. A ten pound box the charged me about $25 (coffee mug and Tim Horton's coffee). A bubble mailer with a baseball cap in it (so net weight about 5 ounces?) they wanted...wait for it.....$59. The bubble mailer was "too long" the clerk said. So I folded the end and taped it with packing tape. Exact same package was now $6.