Your package has suffered a Force Majeure,

that’s a new one for sure.

Received this by e mail from Canada Post: Shipment Status: Force Majeure on July 07, 2011.

Canada Post is experiencing circumstances beyond our control causing a possible delay of the item. We are committed to delivering the item as soon as the situation is under control. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

I had ordered a bunch of stuff from Well.ca on the 29th of June. Everything was going swimmingly until the package reached a sorting facility in Quebec on the 7th July.

Now they {Canada Post} are claiming that is not their fault the mail is backed up. Nope, they were not the ones who locked their workers out.

As everyone and their dog know this is all the fault of the Chrétien Liberal Government who turned Canada Post on its head back in the dark oh days of the natural governing party.

I had a different problem with an order I made with Ashton Green. I placed the order 2 days prior to the Postal union going on strike. Ashton green [kudos to them] foresaw possible delivery delays and switch the shipment from the usual Can Post system to Purolator courier.

Unbeknown to Ashton Green Purolator and the Can Post have more in common than being owned by the Canadian Government. There are very similar ineptitude's when getting parcels into Labrador.

My Purolator parcel went to St. John’s where it was handed over to Can Post for delivery to me during a Can Post lock out of its workers.

Now one would be excused for thinking that a courier company would pick the delivery system of least resistance and fasted mode. Nope, not Purolator, they hand over packages to Can Post destined for Labrador regularly either in St. John’s or some times Goose Bay.
Then some times packages arrive on one of the scheduled airlines servicing coastal Labrador from Goose Bay [as it should].

So don’t bother to figure that out. As every one and their dog know [see above].

I wonder if the OC Transpo buses are running on time today.

Cloudy some fog and light rain all day Sunday, light rain again this morning. The upside is the road dust is supressed.