I sympathize with the OP. Because of a small omission, he’s going to have to pay for postage twice and is concerned about how his buyer is going to react to it.
I live in the US, but was born in Canada. A year or two ago, I was told by an American postal clerk that the rules had changed regarding addressing mail to Canada. The name and address must be in CAPITAL LETTERS and it’s no longer ok to address things to Grandma and Grandpa or Uncle George and Aunt Betty, the complete real name and address must be written in CAPITAL LETTERS or the mail will be rejected by the Canadian Postal System. I thought he was joking with me. Nope, serious. I had to remove my nice, legible, clearly typed label on my parcel, and replace it with my own not-so-pretty handwriting in CAPITAL LETTERS. So yeah, it looks like they are getting really picky about how things are addressed. Canadians, has the CPO gotten pickier within Canadian borders too or is this newfangled persnicketyness saved for foreign mail?
Also, this year, when my BIL tried to mail me some candy (Chicken Bones) from Winnipeg, the parcel was refused at the border. Somehow, sending 2 lbs of candy from Canada to the US upsets the American candy making industry or some such thing. My BIL was warned when he mailed it that it might get past customs and it might not. No refund on postage if it gets refused you know. Getting things across the border is such a crap shoot. Often times it seems to depend on what kind of mood the inspector at the border is in when your parcel arrives to them.
It works both ways. There’s this thing called an international border, and apparently as soon as you cross one inch past it postal rates go way up, in both directions. Living in Canada, I would never buy from an American on eBay without asking the shipping rate first, because it’s not going to be the same as shipping to the US. Live with it.
Oh, and thank you for condemning a whole country because of a few idiot buyers and customs regulations :rolleyes: Yeah, there’s no problems like that in the US, everyone pays on time and you don’t have to deal with border niceties. [hijack]US Immigration can take their regulations and shove 'em.[/hijack]
Okay biggirl was totally out of line. Those bigass Alberta clippers are where we get our watershed for which we is thankful and of which none of you Southwestern bastids can have any.
However, there is no way you can think a Canadian degree is better than an American degree. There are 180 of them between freezing and boiling. You only have a hundred. This allows Americans to be more precise in describing the weather, without sounding like dorks.
I buy from the US all the time and have rarely gotten hosed for shipping. There’s one company who is not getting my business although I would like to buy from them because they won’t ship their tiny little package by post - they want me to pay around $45 for something that would fit in a regular envelope. I should give them a call and see if they couldn’t possibly ship by mail instead of using a very expensive courier.
Anyway, I don’t support this rant either, except for the guys who didn’t pay. That ain’t right.
(Two holidays this week for us? I can only think of one - what am I missing?)
Calgary Stampede Parade Day? As you know, featherlou, a lot of Calgary businesses take the day off for the parade. But that doesn’t explain the rest of Canada.
But those two points of Celsius are easy to relate to. 0 water turns to ice 100 it boils. With those two reference points it makes it much easier. I know what 15 degrees feels like I know what 32 feels like. Plus we have that decimal system to work with to fill in those gaps (Ok yeah, it makes us sound like dorks)
I went to buy a piece of software form a US maker in Saint Paul, MN. Cost? $65 US for the software, which was downloadable. Cost of downloading it? Negligible. Cost of extra CD for archival purposes? $10.
Cost of shipping said CD to Canada, via the only choice (DHL International Courier)? $60.
When I when to the post office today, the guy told me, “Yeah, they’ve really been acting like pricks lately. I’ve seen stuff mailed to ‘Grandpa Johnson’ that was sent back because that wasn’t a proper first name. Oh, and you put the ZIP code last. They’ll probably send it back again just for doing that. I’ll just write Canada again below the ZIP code.” :rolleyes: Luckily for me, his contempt for the Great White North was palpable and he didn’t charge me. Just put a new date stamp on it and threw it in the bin.
Fuck it. I’m done with Canada. Any Canadian who snipes my auction at the last second gets immediate negative feedback. Hopefully, the NO FUCKING CANADIAN ORDERS message in my auctions will be warning enough.
Uncheck the “Ship to Canada” button, then check the one that says “Block bidders from countries where I don’t ship” and you won’t have to be as big an asshole on eBay as you are here on the SDMB.
