Shipping from Canada is killing me!

[Scoop224]

Bought something in Canada last week off the classies. Got tracking number and entered it into my app, as well as going to the Canada post website. No updates, nothing.... Just showing "accepted" for the last week. I think this will be the last time I buy something that's not in the US to begin with. How long should this take to get here? It's near Buffalo NY and I'm in Cincinnati.... Only about 600 miles. I routinely get stuff shipped here from the west coast US that only takes 3 days at the most. Has customs seized my package?

 

[glasseye]

If it's anything like shipping from here TO Canada it could take anywhere from a week to 6 weeks. The trouble with most International shipping is unless you buy the superduperuber $$ insurance and tracking it's pretty much all in the dark. Hope you get it soon.

 

[Adrean]

Isn't USPS infamously horrible?
I get packages delivered to Toronto from the UK and Germany faster than New York State!

 

[Troy421]

I bet it's pricey USPS stinks

 

[Ryedan]

Shipping from the US to Canada has generally taken about 2 weeks for me. Tracking in that direction is the same as your experience the other way. I used to just accept this and deal with it, but shipping to Canada has gotten a lot more expensive lately and I've developed great Canadian sources. Have patience and don't sweat it. It will work out for you!

 

[blackHelix]

Canada post is brutal. I can get stuff shipped from Florida to Ontario Canada faster than some things come right in province.

 

[Scoop224]

I hope they don't lose it....it's an original D.I.D.

 

[ch2468]

One thing I've noticed from snail-mail packages from the States is that tracking stops at the border. Chances are the postal service is just clogged... Easter weekend and all.

 

[grandmato5]

Patience

 

[Scoop224]

Oh my GOD!!! Been checking the Canada post site every day and no updates until today. It took seven days, an entire WEEK!.... To travel 64 kilometers (40 minute drive according to GPS) to travel from Grimsby ON to Mississauga ON!!!!!

An entire week!

That is just pitiful! I will never deal with this kind of shipping again, that's for certain. This is the worst service I've ever witnessed in 20 years of using shipping for personal business. Dark ages up there, I feel sorry for folks that have to deal with this kind of ineptness.... New meaning to the term snail mail..... More like freaking GLACIER mail...

 

[exnihilo]

From what I've seen, the major hold up is forms/NAFTA. Not political, but in my experience that's what usually does it. Ground travel requires it, air does not: guess which one of those two the cheaper route uses. I work for a large shipping company, so this is only my experience.

cg

 

[Scoop224]

Oh, it's definitely ground travel......from the looks of it the courier is crawling on hands & knees. I thought they had motor vehicles up there in the great white north? Our superior postal service has got me spoiled.

 

[MBear]

Canada post is brutal. I can get stuff shipped from Florida to Ontario Canada faster than some things come right in province.

That's interesting.
I'm an American in Canada.

Where I live (San Diego), we're actually lucky if USPS mail makes it to our box at all.
Here in Ontario, I can order liquid and I receive it the day after it was shipped.

I'm thinking perhaps the issue is customs/border stuff.
Tougher to vaping supplies into Canada, I believe.

 

[blackHelix]

I think it's all in where you live. I assume that in Markham you might get things a bit faster (the largest hub is just in Mississauga). I live in N.O. and it takes forever sometimes!

 

[Neon]

Oh, it's definitely ground travel......from the looks of it the courier is crawling on hands & knees. I thought they had motor vehicles up there in the great white north? Our superior postal service has got me spoiled.

Beavers can only haul so much at one time ya know