Comments on: My mail has been stolen constantly by a Canada Post worker

By: Anastasia @ eco-babyz

Anastasia @ eco-babyz — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:30:57 +0000

I’m in the U.S. and in the past 6 months two packages that were supposed to be delivered for my online business from Canada got ‘lost’ or most likely stolen of course. So annoying! I hate to have to tell my sponsors to send the items again at their expense, especially when it is a small business owner such as an Etsy shop, ugh.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:16:24 +0000

Our mail here in Victoria has been mis-delivered for years.
I’ve even found our mail labelled in the foyer as “not at this address”
by local neighbours in the building who are just stupid neighbours who
received our mail.

They are not required to deliver my mail either by law. However, we all live in the same building. Nevertheless… Canada post has never taken responsibility for any mis-delivered or lost mail in my entire almost 50 yrs. of using their services. They stink and their employees (many of them) are lazy twit heads sucking money out of the system. They have no incentive to do a good job.

Our mis-delivered mail is a constant thing. Every month, it happens. We have written letters, called Canada Post managers here, and even spent 3 yrs. trying to get our money back on one mis-delivery.

Just a reminder, whenever you see any organization that ‘needs’ an Ombudsman, that means they have an internal management issue; otherwise they wouldn’t need another person or persons to fix a problem. Canada post ombudsman is another useless office; they do nothing until you have essentially gone mad with frustration via the regular route. On the regular office route for complaints….they stink here in Victoria. Heck… I have a direct number to the manager and he doesn’t like me either… because he cannot do anything about the lazy mail delivery people. I mean… how frigging hard is it to deliver mail to the correct
address??? I have worked as a consultant for 24 years (Envir. Eng.) and I have never made an error that got into the public domain… So.. .I expect people doing grunt mail delivery to do the job perfectly every time without errors… PERIOD!@!!@@!@@

By: vivian

vivian — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:20:12 +0000

postal workers are not allowed to take the mail home. Mail from overseas can be opened and inspected of course, but also in Canada, a postal inspector can open the mail for inspection, there is no need in Canada to get a warrant for this.

As far as location of the mailbox, we complained about ours, but we had the visit of two burly looking postal inspectors who told us in no uncertain terms that our mail would now be delivered to the community mailbox which is safer and more secure. We are old and it is further for us, but it is a fact that mail is safer because when we had our mailbox at our driveway, it would sometimes get stolen by kids if we forgot to pick it up. With bills and banking online now, I don’t worry too much about the mail.

I’m sure some stealing happens,but there are other factors to consider. I remember hearing of a postal employee who simply got rid of the mail instead of delivering it, he was caught.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:29:37 +0000

I just had 30 Euros cash stolen from a Christmas card I posted to Gatneau from Australia. I placed the 6 5Euro notes inside a Christmas card and a well sealed envelope. The receiver got the envelope with nothing in it. But even more surprising the envelope did not appear to be tampered with! So 30 Euros is nto a lot of money and they say do not post cash, fair enough. But i do not expect a CanPost thief to take my contents and forward the empty envelope. Do the postal delivery people take their goods home before delivery the next day? I presume there is plenty of surveillance in the Mail Centres so where do they get the chance to steal? Like i said to my friend who the Euros were for, “I hope the thief buys a fatal overdose with my money”

Shame CanPost vet your employees harsher and prosecute those who steal your customers property.

By: Janessa

Janessa — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:04:19 +0000

My biggest complaint is consistently paying for “Sign on Delievery” and the people I send my parcels to have told me they were never asked to sign anything! When I check the signature on line it is always a scrawl(?) for signature. Everytime!!
So, why are we paying for a signature to make sure our parcels are delievered when carriers/delivery are too lazy to have the addressee sign? Just read a Montreal postal worker was suuspended for doing this when it happens regularly in AB,Sask.MB where I send parcels.

By: mcarter

mcarter — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:16:28 +0000

@Rodney M:
It is illegal for your postal carrier to NOT deliver anything that has been sent to you, whether it is addressed to you or if it is flyers, junk mail, etc. Someone has paid to have that stuff delivered to you and they must, as contracted, carry out their delivery.

A “NO JUNK MAIL” sign on your mailbox may filter out some flyers delivered by kids who are just as happy to not have to walk up to your door, but anything sent via Canada Post must be delivered.

By: mcarter

mcarter — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:11:43 +0000

Yeah, i don’t know when “Kiki” last bought a stamp in the USA ‘cos it hasn’t cost as little as 5¢ to mail a letter there in 40+ years.

Those of you who have had international mail returned to you can feel welcome to blame the postal services on the other side, too. After all, it’s likely the folks on that end who have failed to make the delivery.

Poster above complaining about mail forwarding not working: mail forwarding only redirects YOUR mail to your new address and does not extend to former residents or tenants mail continuing to arrive at your address. If they don’t subscribe to mail forwarding where do you think their mail will go?

Newsflash, folks: Some people steal. Some people are incompetent. ALL postal services have their problems, just as ALL boats leak. Anyone who has a beef with Canada Post should have a conversation with someone in Italy or Spain. We have it pretty good compared to a lot of places.

I have NEVER (yet) had a problem with the service provided by a CP letter carrier. HOWEVER, since parcel delivery has been contracted out to a privately-owned courier company I’ve had no end of trouble.
- Missing parcels.
- “Attempted” deliveries that never happened.
- Delivery Notice Cards not left OR left in mailbox WEEKS after I had inquired and picked the thing up on my own at the post office.
- Parcels being “out for delivery” for three days.

Your mileage will, no doubt, vary from one area to the next, but whenever I hear someone chirping about privatizing the postal service I think of far downhill parcel delivery has gone in my area in just a few years.

Privatizing the PO will save some money in the short term and *might* keep postage costs lower, for awhile, as candidates will low-bid their way to hefty contracts to deliver mail, but in the Canadian economy it cannot last. Canadians are among the highest-earning people in the world and, thanks to unions and Canadians’ general feeling of entitlement, the cost for anything resembling a service will continue to increase.
So get used to Canada Post functioning as it is or buckle up for an inferior and equally costly privately-operated equivalent.

By: ludington

ludington — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:58:54 +0000

Kiki, you can get a 5 cent stamp in the US, but you’re going to have to put 8 1/2 of them on a letter.

By: Rodney M

Rodney M — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:24:09 +0000

I like my courier if I am not home they take to the local SDM and leave me notice. I only had probs with them a few times due to damb junk mails there is sign in my box no junk mail please. and has been fine for the past few months lets hope it stays that way.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:07:50 +0000

You have complaints about what is happening with your mail from the mail man, what do you think about this story that is currently underway that is investigating mail men at Canada Post that complete their routes within four or five hours but are paid for an eight hour shift. They earn between 18$/hr and $25/ hr or more.

http://www.thetorontopost.net/2012/11/canada-post-employees-work-part-time.html

By: me

me — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:30:37 +0000

Do you have proof that they are stealing it or is it just more convenient to blame them because they have access?

By: LH

LH — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:33:35 +0000

I guess not everybody is perfect. I never had issues until this last package from Gap never came. It was tracked and said item successfully delivered. I never got. Checked the post office and nothing. So CP told me to contact the sender and make a claim. My guess is they safe dropped, which they said they never do. They’re liars because I’ve had many packages safe dropped by CP and left at my front door. This time I was away but had a house sitter at the time of the delivery. Someone probably saw it and stole it. Or they delivered to the wrong house and the person who accepted the package probably kept it. Anyway I hope the Gap gets their claim. They were gracious enough to send me the same order and luckily every item in the sizes I wanted were in stock. I don’t have to put out any more money. I just hate the wait. Way to go CP. I bet you have to pay out a lot of claims because of incompetence.

By: Employee Pay

Employee Pay — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:13:03 +0000

Canada Post pays for all operations through postage fees, your tax dollars are not used to pay for any part of Canada Post’s operations.

Since something is being stolen I’d of notified the RCMP & Canada Post at the same time…..

By: BOB

BOB — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:20:05 +0000

Canada Post has such bad service. A lettermail from my parents was suppose to arrive in 4 days can be delayed for over a week. The lettermail still isn’t here yet. Why would they even bother with delivery standards if they can’t follow them. After reading everyon else’s post, I have come to realize I might never receive this lettermail due to the high volume of lettermails that get lost and opened along the way. This “lost” lettermail will cost me about $2000. I hope they’re satisfied with what they find inside my lettermail. Canada Post should be replaced with another postal carrier company. They suck.

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