Canada Post is insane.
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1. Canada Post is insane.
Al Hartman · Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:55
Rod made this post and I accidentally deleted it instead of approving it...
(Sorry Rod)
From: Rod H <[email]>
Date: Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:46 pm
Subject: Canada Post is insane. rod_h...
Hello,
Just wanted to share a little story with you. As you will probably recall I took possession of a large amount of TS-related gear from a deceased user and went about handing it on to other users via two TS Gear Handouts. I have some stuff leftover and thought to get greater exposure I'd put it on eBay at a nominal price. So I'm offering TS1016 Rampaks for a buck plus shipping.
This is where it gets really weird:
Canada Post wants $18.58 to ship one RamPak to Texas from Vancouver. To ship TWO RamPaks wrapped together the postage is $8.52 surface and $10.10 air mail.
Wait...it gets better.
To ship one RamPak to Brazil costs $48. To mail TWO RamPaks to Brazil it costs $10.47 by surface and $20.23 air mail.
I guess the word logical is not in the Canada Post dictionary. And we wonder why the Post Office is going broke.