On 2010-11-29 13:38, 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).
> Packages returned with an "error in address" or "no such receipient" or
> something like that for no apparent reason. According to my father a
> reason is that they are very picky about how an '8' or 'B' should be
> written (or maybe it was (also?) some other pair or symbols). (This was
> when I still hand-wrote the address labels.)
>
Thank you soo much Wouter for sharing yours and your father's experiences w=
ith us. Now I understand why the "Canadian postal services are one of the w=
orst in the 'civilized' world."
I will not ask why you think France and Italy are bad ones as well  ;-)





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