On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 19:38 +0100, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> >> IME Canadian postal services are one of the worst in the 'civilised'
> >> world. (My father lives over there, and has an even lower opinion of
> >> them.) Other bad ones are France and Italy.
> >
> > What kind of experiences have you had? FWIW I find canadapost to be
> > amazingly good, often better then much more expensive services (i.e.
> > FedEx).
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> Packages returned with an "error in address" or "no such receipient" or=20
> something like that for no apparent reason. According to my father a=20
> reason is that they are very picky about how an '8' or 'B' should be=20
> written (or maybe it was (also?) some other pair or symbols). (This was=20
> when I still hand-wrote the address labels.)

Strange, I've never even had a package returned.

FWIW there are rural areas where addressing can get "interesting", so I
can believe that being a problem in some places. My experience is that
despite clear errors in address (i.e. often the wrong postal code,
sometimes even the wrong city) I've still received my mail, and I've
never had something I've sent returned.

The only mistake I have experience was once sending a letter to my
parents in Austria, it took about 3 weeks longer then it should of. When
they finally received it it had been marked in Australia and then
forwarded to Austria. An honest mistake IMHO. So now I always write the
following:

AUSTRIA
EUROPE

Never had a problem since.

TTYL

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