Discussion: Guidelines re Items Being Shipped to Canada

[kturock]

There is the possibility of tracking for everything to Canada, it is just that it is an entirely different service, and it costs a lot more than it does in the states. The problem most people have is they ask for "delivery confirmation" when they mean "tracking number". We DO NOT have a sign for system ie: Delivery Confirmation, but we do have a tracking number that tells you if it have been delivered.
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Somehow I over looked part of this.. Delivery confirmation doesn't require a signature.
The delivery person scans it and leaves it in a safe place.
There is signature confirmation, that is like d/c but it's extra. It has someone sign and that gets scanned into the database. I know for pick-ups at the window, you sign on the same machine that's used for debit & credit cards. I don't know how it works for carriers.

[carmachu]

Get over the tracking issue and just insure your packages wherever you send them.

How about no? Tracking is an intergral part of trading and proof things have gone out and come in. I've had mixups that I could only get resolved with folks becuase I provided the tracking numbers proving they shipped. In many cases the label they left on teh door saying its at the post office blew away or fell off or what not.

I've had things just disappear into the ether in the canadian system.

[kturock]

Get over the tracking issue and just insure your packages wherever you send them.

How about no? Tracking is an intergral part of trading and proof things have gone out and come in. I've had mixups that I could only get resolved with folks becuase I provided the tracking numbers proving they shipped. In many cases the label they left on teh door saying its at the post office blew away or fell off or what not.

I've had things just disappear into the ether in the canadian system.

MOST every country offers insurance, not all. Some only up to a certain dollar amount.

[Ironhide]

Get over the tracking issue and just insure your packages wherever you send them.

How about no? Tracking is an intergral part of trading and proof things have gone out and come in. I've had mixups that I could only get resolved with folks becuase I provided the tracking numbers proving they shipped. In many cases the label they left on teh door saying its at the post office blew away or fell off or what not.

I've had things just disappear into the ether in the canadian system.

To think that tracking is an intergral part in trading is a fallacy. If your package gets lost in the mail, can you get your dollar value (or a certain percentage) back for what was lost with a tracking number? No. Can you with insurance? Yes.

[MagickalMemories]

Neither insurance nor tracking is an integral part of trading. The only universally integral part is shipping (for non-scammers, anyway).

Remember, folks, that we're talking about personal preferences here. There's no wrong or right in differences of opinion. Just differences.

Eric