Canada Post Alert re July 18 & 19 (upcoming weekend)

For anyone who "didn't get the memo" from Canada Post, I thought I'd post it here, as it could inconvenience or confuse some sellers over this coming weekend: "The following services will be unavailable Saturday, July 18 to Sunday, July 19 while we perform essential maintenance:canadapost.ca – new profile creation, changes to existing profiles and access to FlexDeliveryepost.ca – all servicesWe apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we thank you for your patience."

Oh yes..... it's all coming back to me now. The last time Canada Post announced a planned outage, I recall it went twice as long and ran into a second day of work stoppage for all online tools. Mobile wasn't affected at the time. I use the Canada Post website for two things and two things only: 1. To give my domestic buyers an EXACT delivery estimate in terms of business days for their package as I might be the only seller annoyed by the vagueness of ebay.ca's 'one to eight business days' which is neither accurate nor truthful as the 'one' is only good if a buyer lives, like, next to me and delivery to remote and northern communities in Canada takes up to and including 13 or even 14 business days from my location; and 2. HS Codes for international shipments. I need those codes for customs and, as I discovered the last time there was an outage, there may be other places online to find the codes but I am leery as to their trustworthiness. At least one code I found on an alternate site was not the same as another I'd used before. If it's a random website providing the information, what is it to them to give the wrong code? Suddenly, an innocent box of diecast cars destined for New Zealand has been commandeered at the border for having been declared as containing live bull frogs or something. Naturally, I am being somewhat facetious. Does anyone have an alternate site for HS Codes up their sleeve? Thanks.

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kaymar_88 wrote:
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