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Have any Canadians here experienced Canada Post's cross country mail service?

Just another testament to postal services. Had an input board mailed to me parcel post from Wichita Kansas last week. Despite the holiday weekend, it showed up at my Ottawa door today. Thank you USPS and Canada Post!
 
Other than it's costly, usually late, getting more expensive, and needs updating/up grading...not bad, eh?

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62vauxhall said:
I live in Surrey, born in North Van and a lifelong reident of the Lower Mainland. Vancouver had independant record stores which I visited and shopped at since the 1960's. A couple of them survived to this day. A few newer ones cropped up within the past 20 or so years and a some even newer ones more recently.

A couple I've not visited because they're inconvenient as hell to get to in Downtown Vancouver and parking costs a fortune. I figure the clientele they're after are the well off, carless, upwardly mobile who can afford the million dollars (give or take) it costs to own a one bedroom condo or the $3000 per month it takes to rent it.

Therefore, I cannot afford to shop in those.

There are some shops I visit regularly and a few semi-regularly. I'm also aware of one or two thrift stores that seem to get a greater than average amount of music I'm interested in.

But one record store I visited less than two weeks ago really impressed me and it was in Kelowna not Vancouver. Prices were not dirt cheap but the selection, organization and tidiness was top notch. They had two copies on hand of a record I've been trying to find for over a year.
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I've been to that Kelowna shop when it opened. He had some good prices back then
 
You must know which of the two shops I found there that I'm referring to.

Not the other with initials M.C. Don't think I spent more than 5 minutes in that one. New mixed with old, all filed by artist's first name, a clerk who advised I was interrupting her phone call when asked a question. Won't be going back there again.
 
If that has happened multiple times, I suspect the shipper is sending it late. I get bricklink shipments to Ontario from across Canada by Canada Post lettermail and it works very well. I have also sent a lot of stuff without an issue. I can only think of one item that took over two weeks in the last few years. It is easy to blame the post office no matter what. I would check the dates on the cancellation, it sounds fishy.
 
62vauxhall said:
But one record store I visited less than two weeks ago really impressed me and it was in Kelowna not Vancouver. Prices were not dirt cheap but the selection, organization and tidiness was top notch. They had two copies on hand of a record I've been trying to find for over a year.
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Can you please tell me the name of this record store as I'll be in Kelowna in the next week or so to see some family and golf?
 
62vauxhall said:
I live in Surrey, born in North Van and a lifelong reident of the Lower Mainland. Vancouver had independant record stores which I visited and shopped at since the 1960's. A couple of them survived to this day. A few newer ones cropped up within the past 20 or so years and a some even newer ones more recently.

A couple I've not visited because they're inconvenient as hell to get to in Downtown Vancouver and parking costs a fortune. I figure the clientele they're after are the well off, carless, upwardly mobile who can afford the million dollars (give or take) it costs to own a one bedroom condo or the $3000 per month it takes to rent it.

Therefore, I cannot afford to shop in those.

There are some shops I visit regularly and a few semi-regularly. I'm also aware of one or two thrift stores that seem to get a greater than average amount of music I'm interested in.

But one record store I visited less than two weeks ago really impressed me and it was in Kelowna not Vancouver. Prices were not dirt cheap but the selection, organization and tidiness was top notch. They had two copies on hand of a record I've been trying to find for over a year.
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Cool.
I would have to think there are some places that are not downtown. I was there this summer, and did a quick google search(mostly for music shops), but I noticed there's even a turntable shop in North Van.

My mind boggles every time I go there when I get to thinking about the real estate situation. Heck, the downtown hotel prices boggle my mind.
 
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