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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
I greatly admire many things about Amazon but ... they used to use Canada Post to make deliveries and tat was fantastic. Service was quick, reliable and the backup was the parcel was down the street at th local postal rep (like a drug store). If you weren't home during the day, Mon to Fri, when the postman shows up, you could get it until 9 pm around the corner, and even on Saturday or Sunday.
They switched to UPS a year ago but now, since they only deliver Mon to Fri when many of us are at work, its virtually impossible to get a parcel in a timely fashion. It's a nightmare. There is only one good thing about this development: since all I order now are e-books, the electrons arrive through the air in under 560 seconds and I bypass UPS entirely.  |
Yeah, I found out the last time I ordered from Amazon.ca (been a quiet year, order-wise.) I've been thinking of writing a complaint about their use of UPS, since after several bad experiences I really hesitate before ordering from a company that ships through them.
Not that FedEx can be as problematic. Purolator were a bit better - they have outlets throughout the city, so I don't have to drive all across the city to wait in line to get my stuff.
Canada Post = great.