Canada Post is f**ked pThey have an increase in parcels due to on-line shopping due to china virus. Busier than Christmas, less people working due to social distancing/china virus. I mailed a package to Fort Mac on the 6th of June. Somehow it ended up in Stoney Creek (2 hour drive from here) on the 22nd. WTH? Incompetent management has made me consider using couriers instead.
Item got shipped back to to irunguns by Canada post
- Thread starter MajorCow
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Any packages shipped through CP and where a signature is required are being automatically re-routed to the nearest postal outlet for customer pickup. This is so the CP employee (the mailman) can avoid direct contact with the addressee. It’s a Covid/union thing (they would rather make their customers and the people at the postal outlet risk exposure!).
They don’t even attempt delivery and complete the mail delivery notice at some other point in the process rather than at your doorstep. This is why you sometimes don’t get the delivery notice until some time later.
It’s all BS!
They don’t even attempt delivery and complete the mail delivery notice at some other point in the process rather than at your doorstep. This is why you sometimes don’t get the delivery notice until some time later.
It’s all BS!
- Location
- British Columbia
Canada Post has implemented a recent policy in regards to firearms. If you are shipping a gun, you have to go online and use the "click-n-Ship" thing, enter the details, and print the label. It requires small business membership or whatever--I have had Ventureone for ever so not an issue. This is apparently to ensure that you have to put the age thing on so it has to be signed for by someone over 18. It is possible that this policy existed before, but it has only been since mid May I have been asked by the lady at the outlet I use. I have known her for about 18 years, and she knows I regularly ship and receive firearms. She isn't an anti-gunner so the fact she is now asking suggests a new policy because she never cared before. My own thought is that it is a way for Canada Post to make things more difficult for gun owners, and also potentially for Canada Post (run by the Fed gov't) to see who is shipping guns. Those people here who are reporting their gun related shipments are being delayed or misdirected or whatever, yeah, you are probably right. That happened before but since May 1st it seems that certain individuals feel empowered to "take a stand" against gun owners and guns in general and that probably includes some people working for CP. Whether or not that is mandated unofficially from the top is hard to say and we would never find out anyway. Just like we will likely never find out the truth about what truly happened in Nova Scotia.
This isn’t a conspiracy, the border is literally rejecting AR-15 parts. It just happened to me a few days ago, and I know another person who was affected as well.
Not sure why this isn’t big news yet, but it’s happening. Luckily for me, the CBSA shipped my order back to the sender, otherwise order AR-15 parts at your own risk, they may just confiscate it and you’ll lose your item and your money. It’s a very risky time to purchase parts/firearms from the USA.
Not sure why this isn’t big news yet, but it’s happening. Luckily for me, the CBSA shipped my order back to the sender, otherwise order AR-15 parts at your own risk, they may just confiscate it and you’ll lose your item and your money. It’s a very risky time to purchase parts/firearms from the USA.
Oh so you're one of those "me myself and I" peoplethings, everything has to revolve around you. I see, what do we call you people these days, oh yes, a narcissist.
Guess what princess, there is a metric #### ton of members on this forum besides you. Just because something hasn't happened to your precious little self, doesn't mean it hasn't happened at all.
I put in shipping notes and let them do not selected age proof as I am working from home and will wait for it.
They just didn't listen to me...
So even I stand at my door waiting for my package, the delivery guy will still give a card not give the package to me. I will waste my time and drive to CP and lineup to pick up my package. And they don't even check the Id.
They just didn't listen to me...
So even I stand at my door waiting for my package, the delivery guy will still give a card not give the package to me. I will waste my time and drive to CP and lineup to pick up my package. And they don't even check the Id.
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I shop online regularly. Of three firearms purchases via Canada Post, I had to submit three investigations. And then, mysteriously, after I started an investigation quoting "Please let me know who the RCMP should contact" my guns showed up the next day.
Nice tips!
Now they have to wait 21 biz days before opening investigation, generally you have to wait one month after init delivery date.
IRUNGUNS will be keeping these threads open so please post your Canada Post experiences here.
We have had a conference call this morning to address your concerns with our rep and the Regional Manager for Canada Post.
We will also be having a follow-up call in 2 weeks in the hopes of addressing some sort of improvement in their service.
This thread will also give us the opportunity to share your concerns by sharing your experiences with them.
They have offered further rate reductions through their API so there will be some savings which will be past to the consumer. The discounts are marginal, 5 to 8% but they will help.
IRUNGUNS uses Canada Post due to the amount of rural business we have as other carriers do not offer service to some of these locations given that IRUNGUNS sell across Canada.
IRUNGUNS also uses Canada Post insurance coverage rates on all packages.
This is done to not only protect you but to protect us as a business.
Point and case.
The GSG-16 comes from Germany which is shipped directly to ATI. ATI ships the rifle out to distribution, distribution ships it to IRUNGUNS.
IRUNGUNS sells said rifle to someone in Canada. We export the rifle to Canada where the serial number and rifle are confirmed and checked before shipping it out to the end user.
The rifle travels around the globe problem free but the end user in Canada receives the rifle with a broken sight.
Someone must pay for that, its not the customers fault, but its not ours either.
We understand things happen occasionally and as such we would cover the costs but when it becomes problematic, things need to change.
So, we made the insurance optional, well that did not work either.
A hand full of people ruined it for everyone else.
If you sign a waiver and decline coverage on your package and afterwards it shows up damaged well the onus is on you.
Not for IRUNGUNS to send you a new gun.
What further baffles us after declining coverage, we had a customer dispute the purchase with his credit card company because his restricted firearm showed up fine but the original box was damaged so therefore he demanded a new gun to get a new box.
In the end because of the waiver the arbitration was not successful, but we lost a customer. This is also not acceptable.
Problem solved, so now everything is insured and both the customer and IRUNGUNS are dilemma free.
Our shipping policies will not change but neither will our prices. Our prices in Canada are the same as they are in the U.S.
We do not have the ability to offer free shipping or discounted shipping.
When one outsources a service there is a cost, we kindly ask that you remember that when ordering from anyone.
We hope this helps everyone understand our shipping policies and procedures.
We have had a conference call this morning to address your concerns with our rep and the Regional Manager for Canada Post.
We will also be having a follow-up call in 2 weeks in the hopes of addressing some sort of improvement in their service.
This thread will also give us the opportunity to share your concerns by sharing your experiences with them.
They have offered further rate reductions through their API so there will be some savings which will be past to the consumer. The discounts are marginal, 5 to 8% but they will help.
IRUNGUNS uses Canada Post due to the amount of rural business we have as other carriers do not offer service to some of these locations given that IRUNGUNS sell across Canada.
IRUNGUNS also uses Canada Post insurance coverage rates on all packages.
This is done to not only protect you but to protect us as a business.
Point and case.
The GSG-16 comes from Germany which is shipped directly to ATI. ATI ships the rifle out to distribution, distribution ships it to IRUNGUNS.
IRUNGUNS sells said rifle to someone in Canada. We export the rifle to Canada where the serial number and rifle are confirmed and checked before shipping it out to the end user.
The rifle travels around the globe problem free but the end user in Canada receives the rifle with a broken sight.
Someone must pay for that, its not the customers fault, but its not ours either.
We understand things happen occasionally and as such we would cover the costs but when it becomes problematic, things need to change.
So, we made the insurance optional, well that did not work either.
A hand full of people ruined it for everyone else.
If you sign a waiver and decline coverage on your package and afterwards it shows up damaged well the onus is on you.
Not for IRUNGUNS to send you a new gun.
What further baffles us after declining coverage, we had a customer dispute the purchase with his credit card company because his restricted firearm showed up fine but the original box was damaged so therefore he demanded a new gun to get a new box.
In the end because of the waiver the arbitration was not successful, but we lost a customer. This is also not acceptable.
Problem solved, so now everything is insured and both the customer and IRUNGUNS are dilemma free.
Our shipping policies will not change but neither will our prices. Our prices in Canada are the same as they are in the U.S.
We do not have the ability to offer free shipping or discounted shipping.
When one outsources a service there is a cost, we kindly ask that you remember that when ordering from anyone.
We hope this helps everyone understand our shipping policies and procedures.
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I have 4 shipments from Amazon outstanding (not firearms related), all shipped from Amazon's Georgetown warehouse to Vaughan. That's a 40 minute drive without traffic. The packages need to go to the Gateway sorting facility in Mississauga, then onto Vaughan, about a 30 minute drive from there. Two of them shipped June 13th, two of them June 17th. I have rec'd none of them, with estimated delivery times ranging from overdue to early July.
So I have 4 different shipments shipped from a warehouse 40 minutes from me, taking 3 weeks to arrive.
Crazy.
So I have 4 different shipments shipped from a warehouse 40 minutes from me, taking 3 weeks to arrive.
Crazy.
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I don't know how common postal screwup are. Only one comes to my memory, personally, after 5 decades. Last year I ordered an old pocket knife from a U.S. vender. Tracking showed that it shipped to the opposite side of the country. Got delivered to somebody who brought it back to the post office. Then it was correctly sent to me. My address was marked accurately. Stuff happens.
You were not what? Instead of doing what any basic human being would do, which is to realise that your precious self with your own limited experiences, isn't alone in the universe and that when someone replies to you with something that isn't specifiying you AT ALL, in this case an entire forum of members, you should be thinking about everybody else on the forum but yourself. But instead of that, you went the narcissist "everything is about me" "it didn't happen to me so it can't happen" way. And when you get called out, you have the audacity to say you didn do nufin'.
I get frustrated pretty quickly? ROFL classic deflecting. That's not me frustrated, that's me calling out a narcissist for what he is. Sounds like you're a hypocrite too.
Sorry for jacking this thread up IRG, it had to be done.
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ambishooter
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Southeastern Canuckstan
Not only CP, but most courier services has gone out of whack since the start of this pandemic. Don't expect the ETA until you track it and it says FOR DELIVERY, to which it still goes undelivered for some other reasons.
