http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-12T10:36:44 -05.00 Dain 11 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-12T06:27:05 -05.00 Dain 11 ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-11T19:00:49 -05.00 Dain 11 Originally posted by: Braveheart69

LOL! When I went to ship Jordan's trade package I asked for delivery confirmation and the USPS laughed and told me it wasn't available because Canada's post office stinks. The lady went so far as to say it will be hard to setup because she thinks packages going to Canada just sit around for awhile until someone up there decides to do something with them, could be days or weeks. OUCH!!



Humn... a certain song comes to mind... "Blame Canada, Blame Canada...."

LMAO!

LOL yeah "Blame Canada" is an all time classic I think a big part of the delay is customs though (which also stinks here). And that's not really true about not being able to get tracking - some USPS employees say that but its not really true - you can get it but only if you send global express ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-11T18:34:41 -05.00 Dain 11
Humn... a certain song comes to mind... "Blame Canada, Blame Canada...."
LMAO! ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-11T14:53:47 -05.00 Dain 11 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-11T13:17:30 -05.00 Dain 11 ), and it cost me almost $9 to ship it. I could've got someone to drive me up there and personally deliver it and it would've cost less than that! ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-11T11:42:52 -05.00 Dain 11 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-11T07:00:19 -05.00 Dain 11
You guys don't have as many remote communities that are costly to deliver to because there's a major city in practically every state so you're never *that* far away from a city. From where I live I could drive due north as far as I wanted and not see another major centre (say 1m ppl) at all (we're talking like 30 hours plus of driving). To the east, I'd have to drive like 12 hours or something to get to calgary as a larger centre. Due south? Seattle, 2 1/2 hours. Portland, 5 hours. Various points in California, 12-24 hours. ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-11T06:47:02 -05.00 Dain 11
-Dain ]]> http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=511 2007-03-11T06:41:38 -05.00 Dain 11 Originally posted by: Dain

Ok, I may be missing something obvious here, but I've wondered this for quite a while now. I see a lot of auctions where shipping to the US is cheaper than Canada, from a Canadian seller?!?



Case in point:



http://cgi.ebay.com/Nintendo-N...1QQcmdZViewItem


That's just literally the way it is at the post office (sometimes). It can be cheaper to ship to the US than ship to the opposite coast of canada.

If you think about the size of canada vs the population its not too surprising that our postal costs are higher. We are quite spread out as a population, whereas you guys have a major city everywhere. Easier for your postal system to be more efficient and cheaper as a result because its built on a larger scale.

When someone here is sending to the US it just has to get to the border from Canada post's perspective and then its USPS' problem. So that $22 price within canada is all canada post, whereas that $20 price is just the price of getting it to the border and then getting USPS to deliver the rest of the way, basically. And USPS is the more efficient operation so...


$20 shipping to the US, $22 for Canada.



What gives? Am I missing something?



-Dain

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