Shipping between US and Canada

From: "Dan Cohoe" <dancohoe at oxford.net> The way it was explained to me (bear in mind that this is at least third-hand information that I have no easy way to confirm), is that Canada's system for re-delivering mail that fails on the first attempt (which is a lot of mail here in the USA, too), is different. That somehow the path there is relatively short between "this came back to the post office" and "let's sell this on our eBay site". My wife buys and sells dolls from and to Canada, and apparently her colleagues go to check Canada Post's ebay auctions when their dolls don't get delivered. And have actually found them there. (They are reportedly really good about pulling the auction if the rightful claimant comes forward.) There's also a tactic where the shipper includes hir name, address, and phone number in the package, so that when they open it, they have another chance of being contacted to fix the problem. FWIW, Vince