It's official, Canada Post has lost my medical results.

So I warn you all, please, please choose a shipping option that generates a tracking number. I decided to skip the $20 fedex cost as mail takes "2-3 days tops"(Post Delivery Supervisor, 9:12 am, Feb 4, 2008) to get from the Dr's office to my city.

So let that be a lesson to cash-strapped VJers that saving $20 may cost you a lot more in the end.

I do hope your Dr. can get another package off to you through a reliable courier without asking for an additional fee other than for the delivery.
I have not used Canada Post since they lost our Christmas presents two boxes and two cards from two different locations three years ago and I will not use them even if it were to send a card. They are not and never will be my favourite corporation.
Ron

I am so sorry, Galateia. Will the Panel Physician send you a new one?

You know - throughout the entire process of K1, Canada Post was always unreliable...letters from Montreal would take 10 days (such as Pkg 3 or the interview letter) I sent back several '1-2 day' guaranteed items and Canada post didn't get those done on time.

Twice I used Priority Post to send my fiancé a money order in the US - guaranteed 3-5 business days....14 days later they couldn't track it and I was ready to cancel 1....mysteriously it showed up quickly after some prodding....and I noticed online that it said it had been signed for several days earlier - so basically they lied. Even now, letter from my parents take 10 days or so on average, whereas if I send even a larger package through USPS..takes maybe a week...of course they do work an extra day Frankly they've given better service so far tho.

On important items (and you probably realize in hindsight) pay the extra $$...worth the peace (and piece ) of mind

I'm so sorry

so sorry to hear this! since your old medical will only be expired by 4 days MAYBE they will accept it, and just put you as "pending" until they receive the updated one..

not a fan of Canada Post either!

How horrible.. SOOO sorry to hear that.. UGH...

Disgusting news.

Do let us know if your doctor's office can whip you up a new package.

I, myself, am engaged to a Canadian. We both went on a trip out to Cali, where his father lives (his father moved from Canada to Cali a few years ago for his job) last year, and he looked at my fiance & said, "Son, when you move to the US it will make you realize that the mail system in Canada is like that of a third world country".

I couldn't agree more. On SO many occasions things have never gotten there, including stuff our lawyer sent. We have ordered tickets before that never came in the mail, even months later. So, overall-Canada post is only used for when he gets a bill. Otherwise, as we learned long ago, Canada post is overall worthless. I dream of days my fiance can mail anything to anywhere in the USA & it will be there in 3 days or less!

I scheduled his medical this afternoon, and definitely opted for the $25 Fed Ex charge. Good luck!!!!!!!

I know for sure that they will not accept my old medical, I emailed them and asked, to which they snottily replied that if I had accepted my original date for July of last year, there would have been no problems.

The Doctor's office has assured me they have done pending approvals when medicals were done the day of the interview or when results were pending, so I am no longer worried. However, talk about a PITA.

Sister Galateia, that totally succckkkkks Hopefully you can use the old medical - or get the doc to reprint the results and pick them up in person if possible.
{{{{{{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

get canadapost to issue you a letter that they in fact lost your package. then show it to the panel physicians to get a duplicate copy of your medical. if they charge to reissue, get canadapost to pay for it. i'd say go to the CEO if you have to. this is unacceptable.
I'm not a great fan of Canadapost myself.

No tracking number, no proof it was ever sent. End of story, according to the supervisor today. He wasn't mean about it, just matter-of-fact. They have no way to track it or confirm it is lost if it was sent via normal mail.

so when did you actually mail it out? if you mailed it out on Jan 24, it has only been 7 business days. it might still be floating around somewhere. I mean if expresspost has taken 5 business days for me, plus you guys were in a middle of a snow storm so you never know. if it can't be tracked then even the supervisor has no way of knowing if it's lost or what.

Regardless, I leave tomorrow morning. Whether it is still in postal land or not is moot at this point. According to the supervisor, it should have been there Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest.

Wish me luck, everyone.

Best of luck to you hon

Thanks. The biggest thing I am worried about right now is that I'm sick enough to go to a clinic and find out if I have something serious like bronchitis, I can't stay awake for longer than 2 hrs at a time and am perpetually coughing ... and coughing ... and coughing in that horrible, uses-your-whole-body-it's-so-deep, something-is-stirring-in-the-depths-of-your-lungs, if-the-cough-doesn't-end-soon-you-are-going-to-retch kind of way. I'm also fevered, dizzy, disoriented, unable to walk a straight line, and going through kleenexes at a dangerous rate. I also cannot get through a whole sentence without coughing, and I can barely talk.

Just the kind of shape you want to be in for one of the most important interviews of your life.

Oh man....
this is.....sigh...I feel horrible for you.
Please, drink lots of fluids, take some NyQuil and go to bed. Get a good nights sleep.
I will be thinking of you tomorrow, we all will be.

Oh good Lord. Have a hot toddy, quick!!!! Have two!!!

- 1.5 oz rye whiskey
- 1 tblsp honey
- 1/4 fresh squeezed lemon
- 2/3 - 1 cup boiling hot water

Not to detract from the horrid news about the lost medical results, but I do want to stick up for Canada Post with some miraculous stories:

- a cheque from a Vancouver client arrived in Montreal, using regular mail, in just under 24 hours

- I mailed boxes of stuff and paid for slug speed (Van-Mtl) and what should have taken a month took 2-3 days

and more...


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I hope you get your health back quickly G.

drink lots of ginger tea,hope it helps.good luck !!

You've gotta be kidding me.

US Postal service is slow beyond slow. The office is full of equal opportunity workers who operate at the pace of turtles. They lost my insurance papers for a month in November. Even though it had a tracking number on it, they had no idea where it was.
In December we tracked a book ordered from the net. It left Arkansas Dec 10th, in Dallas, TX on Dec 14th. It got to my home in Houston, TX in January! It didn't even leave Dallas until the 21st.

I walked out to the mail box one day and what do I see? USPS has delivered the mail, but left everybody's door open (master lock was unlocked). Another time I wrote "Person moved: return to sender" (like I used to in Canada). Sure enough, about 4 days letter I find the same envelope in my mail slot.

Waiting in line at USPS is tiring. I spent 1 hour there one time.

You know how sometimes they put those notices in your mail when you get a package in? The kind you can sign and then they will deliver it. I sign.....they don't deliver. They just leave the signed form in the mailbox.

Contrast all that to Canada Post who run customers through in record time every time. 5 minutes at Christmas time tops. Otherwise it's instant. The people who work for them actually care about customer service. And everything I mail seems to get there quick.

Get this. USPS walks into my wife's office to drop off the mail. He doesn't pick up the outgoing mail while he's there. So my wife runs out the door after him with the outgoing mail. He asks if she has a table inside. She says yeah, why....He then asks would you mind if I came and sat inside your office and ate at your table? She looked in his van and it was full of wrappers and garbage.

The only good thing about USPS is that they deliver on Saturday. Canada Post doesn't. Although you can still do pickup and drop offs on Saturday with Canada Post. Just no regular mail at your mailbox.