A warning about cheating on Canada Post weight
I'm sure most of you have noticed you can cheat a bit on weight when you use the PayPal shipping tool to ship via Canada Post. I have been cutting the weight by 20-25% for months with no problems... 100s of packages.
Party is over
About a month ago a couple packages were sent back to me for lack of correct postage. Figured I may have gone just a bit too light. Last couple weeks they started to roll back by the dozens. Today I got 2 packages back that were 2.3 kg and they were rejected because they were 100 grams off. 100 GRAMS! Thats a bloody envelope.... Absurd
So one of two things has happened:
My mail has been flagged as an abuser or something and they are rejecting it for any error at all.
OR
They are getting abused too much via PayPal and have adopted a zero tolerance on postage.
When you buy posted on the site with credit card and its off, they charge card. But with PayPal they can not do that. So it seems, with me now anyway, they are rejecting packages that have the wrong weight.
I have had more packages returned in the last 4 weeks then I have in 10 years total.
So I have had to pay for dozens of packages to rush back out, or worse, refunds. And a ton of cranky buyers...
Just a word of caution, be careful on package weight with the PayPal shipping tool and Canada Post
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