All Contracts Have Gone to Purolator

[Brandon K]

On Friday I had three packages from Amazon, all coming from different carriers. One from Canada Post, one from Amazon's own delivery, and one from Purolator.

So I'm walking home from Starbucks in the morning and my Canada Post carrier - who normally arrives at my place around 2pm - sees me, knows that she has two small (carryable) packages for me, and flags me down from across the street so that she can give them to me.

Meanwhile, I'm waiting all day for Purolator - my Amazon package was on his truck at 7:33 am - and at 6 pm, apparently he's not going to finish his deliveries for the day, so now my package is locked in his truck all weekend (instead of having an option to pick it up from the depot), and I can only hope he'll deliver it to me on Monday.

As for Amazon's own carriers, they somehow always manage to sneak into my apartment building without being buzzed in. I don't know if they're delivering to someone else as well, which is possible. But their carriers are shifty. And of course you never know when they're coming. And they call you but they don't leave a message, so it's pointless. I never answer calls I don't recognize.

Canada Post is the best, definitely in part because I have a great carrier, but also because they deliver at a known time every day, and if they happen to miss me (which is hard because I work from home), the post office is 15 minutes walk and I just pick up my package.

Purolator is the worst. Love Canada Post. Not the biggest fan of Amazon's own carriers.