Amazon.ca international shipping - how long?

[dannyjl]

I placed my first order with amazon.ca on May 6th and am still waiting for the disks to arrive in Japan. I've been ordering from the U.S. amazon site for years and it takes about 2 weeks, quite often less, for disks to arrive. The company always over estimates the shipping time by weeks so I ignore that estimate. However, I was a little shocked when my Canadian order showed up with a 6 week estimate. I shrugged that off and went ahead with the order.
Going on 4 weeks now and wondering what other shoppers experience has been with disks sent outside of North America. Care to share?
Danny

[Johnny Vinyl]

Recently I ordered some vinyl from amazon UK to be shipped to me in Canada. Email was sent on the 18th saying it had been dispatched. They estimated delivery around the 28th, but nothing so far. It doesn't actually bother me, but hopefully it'll arrive sometime this week. Did you receive a dispatch notice email from amazon.ca?

John

[dannyjl]

Yeah, got the mail saying it was shipped 5/6/09 - like 4 weeks ago. Went to my account page but no orders at all are listed. This was my 1st time with ama.ca so don't know what to expect. I've gotten stuff from ama.uk faster to Japan than from the ama.com. Why the heck should Canada be so out of whack?

[sschen]

Originally Posted by dannyjl

Yeah, got the mail saying it was shipped 5/6/09 - like 4 weeks ago. Went to my account page but no orders at all are listed. This was my 1st time with ama.ca so don't know what to expect. I've gotten stuff from ama.uk faster to Japan than from the ama.com. Why the heck should Canada be so out of whack?

If you chose standard shipping, I have very bad news for you, that really is the equivalent of surface/seamail. Amazon.ca quotes 8 to 12 weeks for delivery. I have used this method of shipping twice in the past to Australia, and let me tell you this, I won't be doing it a third time unless it really is a title that I want for my collection rather than one I want to watch immediately. This method of shipping is notoriously slow. Both packages took 10 weeks or more to get to me. I am not exaggerating when I say ou can travel around the world faster than that.

What annoys more is that the postal rate for their standard shipping is hardly considered cheap either.

[jpthomas27]

Originally Posted by sschen

What annoys more is that the postal rate for their standard shipping is hardly considered cheap either.

If it was cheap at least there would be some relavence to the topic of this forum.

[sschen]

Originally Posted by jpthomas27

If it was cheap at least there would be some relavence to the topic of this forum.

Amazon.ca standard international shipping costs is about the same as the other international amazon sites. Amazon UK takes a week max to deliver using their standard shipping. I normally received titles from Amazon US, Germany and France within two weeks. So for the same international charge, why is bl**dy amazon.ca taking 8-12 weeks to deliver? Surely being a global conglomerate, they would have negotiated very good pricing with their local couriers/postal services. The wait with their "standard" international shipping is worse than appalling. They shouldn't even call it "standard", they should call it "slower than snail" shipping.