Re: [MOPO] New Mandatory Address Requirements for Canada

[Craig Goebel]

There are international postal conventions to which virtually every country with postal services belongs. If the Candian service has introduced any new addressing requirements they are, as Bob notes, essentially variations of those already in use. The prospect that the postal service is turning back truckloads for minor "noncompliance" seems somewhat unlikely. Anyway, the paypal address info setup that many sellers seem to copy and paste onto parcels works fine. If paying by mail buyers should include their own label.   Return addresses though have to be as clear as the recipient's. So there is an issue related to legibility of that - make sure it's complete or else that will result in a rejection of receipt. And that's the same for the US and other countries now.   Starting and since late Fall the US and Canadian services have been a loggerheads and I'm not sure who is to "blame", over where the US will deliver parcel post in Canada - there was a change from Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver Customs depots to Vancouver only for all of western Canada, so there has been a long backlog - first for Christmas; possibly now there is no room for MORE parcels and there is a turnaround of trucks / other delay - as FEWER Customs agents check many more parcels than before for, as Phil states, contraband and explosives.   Going the other way of course, there is the interdiction of homemade foodstuffs such as cookies and fudge and horrors (!?) farm-drawn bottles of maple syrup from Gramma that have not been preapproved (tasted by Gitmo prisoners?).   Still, the mail does leak through.   Craig, Vancouver ----- Original Message ----- From: Vaughn K. Mann To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] New Mandatory Address Requirements for Canada Hello, What are the specific requirements?....................I just sent about 10 up there............Thanks, Vaughn At 03:04 PM 3/9/2005 -0600, Captain Bijou wrote: Are all MoPOers aware of the recently instituted mandatory addressing requirements on all mail sent to Canada??   A worker at my local post office gave me a inter-office bulletin outlining the new requirements, which begins with the following paragraph:   "Canada has instituted mandatory addressing requirements on all incoming mail. Canada is refusing all mail that does not conform to the new requirements and has been returning truckloads to us every day."   I've had two packages to Canada recently returned for no apparent reason. The culprit must have been the way the labels were addressed. Any other MoPoers have this experience recently??   Earl Blair CAPTAIN BIJOU www.captainbijou.com   Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 04/03/05 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.