Time for delivery

gravitas · #1 January 6th, 2007

Hey Kirk. I *finally* got 'round to ordering your book this Christmas. However, I ordered it approximately two weeks before the date, and it still hasn't arrived. Granted, I am in Canada, but this seems like an inordinately long amount of time, even for our postal service... I was just wondering, what's the length of the average period one can expect to wait before PlaneTalk's arrival?

Kirk Lorange · #2 January 6th, 2007

Hi Gravitas ... I think I need to add to my order page: "Canadians -- expect to wait three times longer for delivery than any other country". Why is that? It takes less than a week sometimes to the US or UK; Canadians sometimes wait three weeks, even to main cities.

gravitas · #3 January 6th, 2007

Thanks for the speedy response. You're right, it is quite the conundrum. My guess is that it's just Canada Customs- they've been quite anal about this sort of thing since you-know-when.

It's more than likely that we'll receive it having been opened and checked for Anthrax (you... wouldn't mail us Anthrax, would you?

), maybe with a service charge, depending on how thorough they've decided to be

bugly · #4 January 6th, 2007

Actually the issue is not only Canada customs as getting postal items from Canada also takes months. I hav ordered kites (another hobby) from Canada which on average take 8 weeks to arrive (if they ever do) in Australia. From the US the same items take only 5 to 10 days. So unless customs search all parcels leaving the great white land as well as does that arrive I suggest that canada post is the problem ;-(

gravitas · #5 January 6th, 2007

Well, in the States they call it snail mail... Picture that same snail trying to get around on a glacier

allthumbs · #6 January 6th, 2007

I have always suspected that there is a 20 ft. speed bump at the Canadan border which accounts for my busted guitars and snail mail speed.

gravitas · #7 January 6th, 2007

Kirk Lorange · #8 January 7th, 2007

I don't think it's a customs issue because I can send these 'letter class', which means they don't need the customs sticker. I used to have to use the sticker when I sent VHS, but DVDs are classed as 'printed material only' and I was able to dispense with the sticker ... what a great day that was, too! Filling them all in everytime I sent out orders was a real pain!

gravitas · #9 January 7th, 2007

Well, that's reassuring. At least now we know that, when it gets here, we won't hear "Andwe'rechargingyoufifteendollarsbecausewethought youwereterroristsbutyou'renot

"

It'll have been about three weeks on Monday, so if it shows up this week, I'm sure things'll be perfectly fine

Kirk Lorange · #10 January 7th, 2007

What's your postal code, gravitas? ... I just want to check my records.