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A while back I ordered some books from Chapters.  Towards the end of February they shipped me my copy of Le Morte D'Arthur and Ivanhoe; having moved my copy of The Once and Future King to 'Temporally Unavailable to Order' status.  Anyways, I got free shipping, which meant that I couldn't track the item.  Instead, I could only get delivery confirmation.

Yesterday, I started wondering where the hell my books were.  After all, some merchandise I ordered from eBay around the same time had arrived here — and this stuff was coming from Florida and California, not Ontario.  So, I waded through my email until I found the message with the Canada Post pseudo tracking number.  Off to Canada Post's page I go, where I enter the code into the inquiry box and send off my inquiry.

Parcel delivered.

What?!  Parcel delivered?  I never had received the delivery attempt notification, much less the parcel.  So, off to Kings Place I go, as the last parcel I had had been delivered there for me to pick up.  A check of parcels for my address revealed one, and it was a book, but it's not from Chapters.

Since they didn't have the package, they gave me a number to call to find out just where in the system it was.  So, I trudge back home and call the number.  They have absolutely no problem with finding out where my parcel is, as it's at the post office in Kings Place.

Thankfully Scott was home by then, and he's got a car rented, so we pile into the car and I go back to the clerks who couldn't find the parcel.  They check the system, again, and still come up with nothing.  Finally, after I insist that it must be there, one of them offers to go back in the mail room and check.  Less than a minute later she's back and bearing books.  Someone had decided to mark my parcel as delivered, so it didn't show up in the computer.

And that's the story of how two books from Ontario took longer to get to me than one that had to go through customs.

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