Title: Postal Rates
Description: rant
AceofHearts - March 17, 2008 09:47 PM (GMT)
I go into the Post Office to mail 3 parcels of similar weight. One to Australia, one to California and one to Alberta.
Australia 5.95
California 6.20
Alberta 10.25
What is going on?????? The furthest away is the cheapest and yes I asked for cheapest on all 3. On what planet could this ever make sense????
Rant over ****sigh******
Breeze - March 17, 2008 11:34 PM (GMT)
indygo88 - March 18, 2008 02:24 AM (GMT)
You've got me..... (???) For the life of me, I don't understand why it's cheaper for you Canadians to ship out of country. Who designed your postal rates???? :bash: An odd system, it is......
catsalive - March 18, 2008 03:17 AM (GMT)
Amazing! And there's no alternative :angry:
jennannej - March 18, 2008 03:42 AM (GMT)
That IS quite an odd system. :alien: :bananawhip:
needmorezoloft - March 18, 2008 12:35 PM (GMT)
Not sure where in Canada you live... but if you live close to the US, it would be cheaper to mail it from the US to Canada. :shrug:
That's just weird tho :wacko:
CheriePie - March 18, 2008 08:06 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (needmorezoloft @ Mar 18 2008, 08:35 AM) |
| Not sure where in Canada you live... but if you live close to the US, it would be cheaper to mail it from the US to Canada. :shrug: |
Actually she often does. Ace and Lauren live near Toronto so every once in awhile, they drive into Buffalo to do their mailing. (And I suspect visit BookCloseouts at the same time since I think that's close to the border too, no?) :giggle:
SimplyCee - March 18, 2008 08:23 PM (GMT)
AceofHearts - March 18, 2008 09:32 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (CheriePie @ Mar 18 2008, 04:06 PM) |
| QUOTE (needmorezoloft @ Mar 18 2008, 08:35 AM) | | Not sure where in Canada you live... but if you live close to the US, it would be cheaper to mail it from the US to Canada. :shrug: |
Actually she often does. Ace and Lauren live near Toronto so every once in awhile, they drive into Buffalo to do their mailing. (And I suspect visit BookCloseouts at the same time since I think that's close to the border too, no?) :giggle:
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I can't go into BookCloseouts as I have no will power at all :rolleyes: I try to mail all US and Cdn books from the US but mail int'l from here as it is about the same. BookMooch books go right away unless I have a scheduled trip
boomda181 - March 18, 2008 10:05 PM (GMT)
Do you have a VentureOne card? It doesn't give much of a discount but it allows me to at least send it Priority for the same price. It is awful, but I would much rather send to the States or Intl than send in Canada and especially not within Ontario.
geishabird - March 19, 2008 01:57 PM (GMT)
As if the skill-testing questions aren't bad enough... :rofl:
Gothamgal - March 19, 2008 02:53 PM (GMT)
This is really weird. :wacko:
AceofHearts - March 19, 2008 09:09 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (boomda181 @ Mar 18 2008, 06:05 PM) |
| Do you have a VentureOne card? It doesn't give much of a discount but it allows me to at least send it Priority for the same price. It is awful, but I would much rather send to the States or Intl than send in Canada and especially not within Ontario. |
thought you had to be a small business to get the Venture One card
boomda181 - March 20, 2008 01:12 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (AceofHearts @ Mar 19 2008, 04:09 PM) |
| QUOTE (boomda181 @ Mar 18 2008, 06:05 PM) | | Do you have a VentureOne card? It doesn't give much of a discount but it allows me to at least send it Priority for the same price. It is awful, but I would much rather send to the States or Intl than send in Canada and especially not within Ontario. |
thought you had to be a small business to get the Venture One card
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I did too, but my post office recommended I get one because I send so many books :blush: The savings are not huge, but it gets a little bit of a savings.