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[flemmings]

I suppose for some people who live in the future, Canada Post's 'weigh it yourself, measure it yourself,  print it yourself, pay online with a credit card' system may be a boon, but I think you still have to bring it to a postal outlet.  And the option of inputting the details to a smartphone and then having them print the label may save time, but they still require that you pay in advance with a credit card, which frankly I'm not prepared to do. And they still require a phone number for your recipient, which one may not have. Yes, I know- invent one because odds are good they won't call. But it's an awful lot of faff IMO.

If I had a printer and if you could just toss the parcel into a post box I might be tempted. But I don't and you can't. So at some point-- maybe the weekend when temps will hit 5C and tomorrow's snow is melted-- I shall limp to the post office and mail my parcel. Or cab it. Physio is adamant that my swollen leg is not owing to the cyst but I think different. And my grumbling knee is certainly caused by it. Ah well. If my doctor us right, using Voltaren will cut the inflammation from six months to four. I should be mobile by (sob) March.

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[heleninwales]

I've found Evri's system useful, but we do have printers. I'm also happy to pay online with a credit card (or it may have been PayPal, I can't remember). But you weigh the parcel, make the arrangements online, print out the address label and then the courier comes to collect. As our Post Office is currently much further away and only a small counter, I found this preferable to having to take the parcel to the shop.

[flemmings]

I believe Canada Post will only pick up for businesses, or at least that's how it works in cities. They're not much into service. In a country this large and a population this sparse, it can't be a paying proposition but that doesn't stop them trying to make it one.

[dewline]

It is somewhat annoying, given that the postal outlet that I used to be able to walk to inside half an hour has been closed down and the two next closest surviving locations require a bus ride.

[flemmings]

We had one at the bottom of our street but they closed it, and another at the top of the street but either they stopped it or the owner decided he was only doing courier service. And then Canada Post removed the mail box a block away from him. Another fine federal boondoggle.