Canada

[12345jamesstamps]

Registered Mail to Canada seems to have shut down due to the virus.

My letter mailed in April states delivery June 8th to Quebec City from San Francisco.

[sin-n-dex]

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@12345jamesstamps wrote:

Registered Mail to Canada seems to have shut down due to the virus.

My letter mailed in April states delivery June 8th to Quebec City from San Francisco.

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No one is signing anything, it's being left in the mailbox. At my work we don't send out Registered mail (for the past year) because there's no point, it just goes as normal mail and costs more.

C.

[slippinjimmy]

Registered Mail is now the worst possible choice to use.

When USPS decided they would no longer track incoming international Registered Mail postal services around the world replied by doing exactly the same thing.

Even when tracking was being done Registered Mail is the absolute slowest service there is due to the special handling.

Under Covid almost every postal service worldwide has instituted "Force Majeure" meaning that they do not collect signatures on delivery.

Registered Mail, slow, expensive and next to useless these days. For Canada you are better off using regular First Class Package which will be tracked to delivery.

[pjcdn2005]

 International registered mail is unlikely to get scanned in Canada...it isn't even possible for us to send a registered letter to the US from Canada. We have to use a more expensive service to get tracking.

I've heard that registered is actual one of the slowest services but I would be surprised if it actually took that long.

[reallynicestamps]

"Registered" is notoriously foreign for "steal me".

The newer systems like Canada's ExpressPost/ Expedited/ Priority Post are faster and more secure. Some are also cheaper.

And as noted, Registered Mail is only tracked within its country of origin.

The way Canada Post and eBay are apparently handling the No Signature policy, is to accept the delivery scan as proof of signature. So it is still worth buying  (Canada Post charges only $1.50 which is very cheap insurance on a $650+ shipment) , the carrier will not leave it unattended, she just doesn't get the signature on the weird little electronic thingy. The buyer will be picking up at the PO. 

[sin-n-dex]

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@pjcdn2005 wrote:

 International registered mail is unlikely to get scanned in Canada...it isn't even possible for us to send a registered letter to the US from Canada. We have to use a more expensive service to get tracking.

I've heard that registered is actual one of the slowest services but I would be surprised if it actually took that long.

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Some of my smaller stamp lots from the UK and Germany have been sent registered which isn't tracked once it arrives in Canada.

C.

[dariudaudery_0]

I am not shipping to Canada anymore (From EU) for this reason - Canada post does not collect signatures, does not track registered mail. Packages more very slow because nothing is tracked.

It has been a problem way before Coronavirus, Canada post sucks..

[doc-holmes]

That's why I won't sell to the US. In Canada, we're trained to wait a month for our packages to arrive. If you send the US, they get antsy after a week. I doubt anything gets more than 25 kms away from my house in a week. 

[sin-n-dex]

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@doc-holmes wrote:

That's why I won't sell to the US. In Canada, we're trained to wait a month for our packages to arrive. If you send the US, they get antsy after a week. I doubt anything gets more than 25 kms away from my house in a week. 

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I have 10 days handling and some buyers pester me 12 hours after paying about how it hasn't been mailed yet. READ the listing!

C.

[katzrul15]

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@doc-holmes wrote:

That's why I won't sell to the US. In Canada, we're trained to wait a month for our packages to arrive. If you send the US, they get antsy after a week. I doubt anything gets more than 25 kms away from my house in a week. 

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Wow - that is really sad.  We still sell to Canada and you are correct, you are a patient bunch!  US buyers do complain, A LOT - my Canadian buyers already know it is arriving via pony express, so they just seem so grateful when things do arrive!  

OP - the other posters are correct about registered.  Good luck!

[doc-holmes]

Since shipping, I've been waiting a week and a half for something to arrive, and the seller lives in the same city as me! Canada Post certainty takes its time. I would have just picked up, but we couldn't coordinate it. 

[chapabargain]

What Virus?