The United States Postal Service is a communications channel alongside telephone and internetworks. The exchange of mail facilitates being billed for and sending payments for utilities and merchandise, but in recent times the mail has become unreliable and important communiques are some times neither received nor delivered. Late payments can result from this leading to lowered credit rating.
Our experience at KDX over the past several years has gathered a long list of missing mail, and many vendors are promoting paperless billing as a way of bypassing the mail. But paperless billing depends on dependable internet or cellphone service, and we are unconvinced that these electronic channels are stable enough to sustain consistent connection.
What has been the experience of your radio station operation with regard to mail service?
What kind of postal service serves Canada?
Canada?, is by Canada Post and my experience is that things sent to me from the United States even when I paid for it express goes express with USPS but when it gets here it slows to a crawl and it's not express anymore. It even sits for a few days at one location. They don't care how I paid to have it sent. How can a package sent US mail priority get from Florida to Ontario in 3 days and then take 5 more days from there to get to me?
Sometimes something sent to me in Toronto from the USA gets to Canada in Montreal way out of the way and then has to come all the way back to Toronto by slow truck when it was supposed to be express.
But DHL can get something to you from anywhere in 2 days delivered!
But at least Canada Post is reliable and will get to you...eventually.
I used to sell a lot on e-bay, up to a few years ago. When I was, I found Canada Post extremely reliable, quite fast (using their business class expedited service) but expensive. It was actually cheaper to ship to anywhere in the U.S. than to ship within Canada.
USPS, as stated, was cheaper, but I only ever lost parcels using them. Not one with Canada Post. And once, around Christmas, I watched a package I sent go in circles 3 times (in the Georgia area) before eventually ending up at its destination. Of course, I, the seller, was blamed as opposed to the delivery service. But that's what you take on when you sell online.
Overall, I'd much rather ship within Canada than to the U.S. (at least from Canada).