Canada Post Lost My Medical

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Best of luck to you hon

[Galateia 1]

Best of luck to you hon

Thanks. The biggest thing I am worried about right now is that I'm sick enough to go to a clinic and find out if I have something serious like bronchitis, I can't stay awake for longer than 2 hrs at a time and am perpetually coughing ... and coughing ... and coughing in that horrible, uses-your-whole-body-it's-so-deep, something-is-stirring-in-the-depths-of-your-lungs, if-the-cough-doesn't-end-soon-you-are-going-to-retch kind of way. I'm also fevered, dizzy, disoriented, unable to walk a straight line, and going through kleenexes at a dangerous rate. I also cannot get through a whole sentence without coughing, and I can barely talk.

Just the kind of shape you want to be in for one of the most important interviews of your life.

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Best of luck to you hon

Thanks. The biggest thing I am worried about right now is that I'm sick enough to go to a clinic and find out if I have something serious like bronchitis, I can't stay awake for longer than 2 hrs at a time and am perpetually coughing ... and coughing ... and coughing in that horrible, uses-your-whole-body-it's-so-deep, something-is-stirring-in-the-depths-of-your-lungs, if-the-cough-doesn't-end-soon-you-are-going-to-retch kind of way. I'm also fevered, dizzy, disoriented, unable to walk a straight line, and going through kleenexes at a dangerous rate. I also cannot get through a whole sentence without coughing, and I can barely talk.

Just the kind of shape you want to be in for one of the most important interviews of your life.

Oh man....

this is.....sigh...I feel horrible for you.

Please, drink lots of fluids, take some NyQuil and go to bed. Get a good nights sleep.

I will be thinking of you tomorrow, we all will be.

[Krikit 1,165]

Oh good Lord. Have a hot toddy, quick!!!! Have two!!!

- 1.5 oz rye whiskey

- 1 tblsp honey

- 1/4 fresh squeezed lemon

- 2/3 - 1 cup boiling hot water

[SpiritAlight 1]

Not to detract from the horrid news about the lost medical results, but I do want to stick up for Canada Post with some miraculous stories:

- a cheque from a Vancouver client arrived in Montreal, using regular mail, in just under 24 hours

- I mailed boxes of stuff and paid for slug speed (Van-Mtl) and what should have taken a month took 2-3 days

and more...

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I hope you get your health back quickly G.

(F) (F)

[natasha peter 0]

Best of luck to you hon

Thanks. The biggest thing I am worried about right now is that I'm sick enough to go to a clinic and find out if I have something serious like bronchitis, I can't stay awake for longer than 2 hrs at a time and am perpetually coughing ... and coughing ... and coughing in that horrible, uses-your-whole-body-it's-so-deep, something-is-stirring-in-the-depths-of-your-lungs, if-the-cough-doesn't-end-soon-you-are-going-to-retch kind of way. I'm also fevered, dizzy, disoriented, unable to walk a straight line, and going through kleenexes at a dangerous rate. I also cannot get through a whole sentence without coughing, and I can barely talk.

Just the kind of shape you want to be in for one of the most important interviews of your life.

drink lots of ginger tea,hope it helps.good luck !!

[Texanadian 10]

I, myself, am engaged to a Canadian. We both went on a trip out to Cali, where his father lives (his father moved from Canada to Cali a few years ago for his job) last year, and he looked at my fiance & said, "Son, when you move to the US it will make you realize that the mail system in Canada is like that of a third world country".

I couldn't agree more. On SO many occasions things have never gotten there, including stuff our lawyer sent. We have ordered tickets before that never came in the mail, even months later. So, overall-Canada post is only used for when he gets a bill. Otherwise, as we learned long ago, Canada post is overall worthless. I dream of days my fiance can mail anything to anywhere in the USA & it will be there in 3 days or less!

You've gotta be kidding me.

US Postal service is slow beyond slow. The office is full of equal opportunity workers who operate at the pace of turtles. They lost my insurance papers for a month in November. Even though it had a tracking number on it, they had no idea where it was.

In December we tracked a book ordered from the net. It left Arkansas Dec 10th, in Dallas, TX on Dec 14th. It got to my home in Houston, TX in January! It didn't even leave Dallas until the 21st.

I walked out to the mail box one day and what do I see? USPS has delivered the mail, but left everybody's door open (master lock was unlocked). Another time I wrote "Person moved: return to sender" (like I used to in Canada). Sure enough, about 4 days letter I find the same envelope in my mail slot.

Waiting in line at USPS is tiring. I spent 1 hour there one time.

You know how sometimes they put those notices in your mail when you get a package in? The kind you can sign and then they will deliver it. I sign.....they don't deliver. They just leave the signed form in the mailbox.

Contrast all that to Canada Post who run customers through in record time every time. 5 minutes at Christmas time tops. Otherwise it's instant. The people who work for them actually care about customer service. And everything I mail seems to get there quick.

Get this. USPS walks into my wife's office to drop off the mail. He doesn't pick up the outgoing mail while he's there. So my wife runs out the door after him with the outgoing mail. He asks if she has a table inside. She says yeah, why....He then asks would you mind if I came and sat inside your office and ate at your table? She looked in his van and it was full of wrappers and garbage.

The only good thing about USPS is that they deliver on Saturday. Canada Post doesn't. Although you can still do pickup and drop offs on Saturday with Canada Post. Just no regular mail at your mailbox.

Edited February 6, 2008 by Texanadian