Parcel delivery, the good and the bad
Some local businesses have seen the online side of their sales boom during lockdown, only to run into the bottleneck of parcel delivery and the hassle of lost or stolen shipments. Canada Post is not keeping up, but it’s also being asked to handle more items, and bigger and more cumbersome items, than ever.
dwgs 19:37 on 2020-05-30 Permalink
Canada Post is a mess. It took 17 days for them to deliver a phone from TO to MTL.
Blork 21:14 on 2020-05-30 Permalink
No kidding! I had a package marked as “shipped” from BC that was supposed to take two days to get here and I ended up waiting 14 days for it. Ditto a package from Sherbrooke that was supposed to arrive next day. It’s been five days now, and the tracking just says “delivery date pending.” :-/
Alison Cummins 23:16 on 2020-05-30 Permalink
Somone I know in the biz has a theory that UPS just parks its containers for three days to let the virus die before opening them and sorting the contents.
I think they’re just overwhelmed.
In addition to the more/ more complicated packages problems, a lot of delivery is done by small subcontractors who can lay themselves off and collect CERB payments. So staffing has dropped.