Living on a farm and ordering ammo?

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bigcoupee

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Canpar won't ship a P.O. box or land location. Other than having it shipped to someone I know in the city is there any other way. Will canpar do general delivery and i pick up at the nearest office?
 
A lot of couriers have an arrangement with businesses in the nearest town for drop off, (and yes they do sometimes leave it with the post office) Where I lived, they would leave stuff at the Home Hardware. Be best to give them a call and inquire
 
Canpar will deliver to my house, but most of the time I get the place I'm ordering from to hold for pickup at the depot since I'm never home to get it. Canpar has never had any issues doing that for me, getting the retailers to relay that to Canpar when you order is the hard part.
 
When I lived in Alberta I had to get things delivered in town as they didn't deliver in the country. Here I can get things right to my door except Amazon that shows up in the post office and I have to pic it up except really big things.
 
Raton57 said:
When I lived in Alberta I had to get things delivered in town as they didn't deliver in the country. Here I can get things right to my door except Amazon that shows up in the post office and I have to pic it up except really big things.
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Same here if your off the beaten path they will leave it if you can get a local spot to sign for it when necessary
 
Our local pharmacy is the Loomis/Canpar depot. Purolater I give them my friends address and make sure I am there when they deliver. The UPS guy will phone me when he has a package for me and meet somewhere in town
 
None of the couriers will deliver outside of my nearest town. Some will leave at the local depot, but Can-Par doesn't come within 600 km of me. They have sub-contractors that handle the local area and there is no local office. But if you can get the message into their collectively thick skulls, they will drop it off at any address in town. I've had no real issues with most couriers, but with Can-Par it's always a complicated struggle.
 
I'm in the country as well and have couriers drop off at a local machinery dealership. Lots of local people do this. We buy quite a bit from these guys and they don't charge us anything. Ask at business you frequent about this.
 
Use a friends or local business office in town, that's what I do. Ammunition doesn't need to be shipped to the address of the buyer (PAL holder). Only ran into one company in Quebec who refused to ship to an address that wasn't listed on the PAL. They said the CFO stated they couldn't, but called the Quebec CFO and no such rules exist.
 
Use Canada post flex delivery. Sign up for flex delivery, then they give you your flex delivery address. Once it arrives at a post office of your choice, you will get a email telling you, and they will hold it up to 15 days. Really you can't go wrong.
 
jparent said:
Never had trouble getting anything delivered rural.
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You have obviously never really lived off the beaten path then.

Here, it has to be delivered to a Physical address, not a PO box. Our local Co-op will accept parcels from Fed-ex, Canpar etc..I think the post office will as well.
 
jrcarbine said:
Use Canada post flex delivery. Sign up for flex delivery, then they give you your flex delivery address. Once it arrives at a post office of your choice, you will get a email telling you, and they will hold it up to 15 days. Really you can't go wrong.
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They will accept ammunition ?
 
If it doesn't come Canada Post, it doesn't come out here. I have pretty much stopped ordering from anyone that uses Canpar for anything unless I am seriously desperate and do a mass stock up. It's not worth the 2 hour round trip to pick up a package.
 
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