Customs in the U.S. is just as bad! My son who lives in Canada, one hour from the border to MT sent me a pair or child’s titanium glass frames for myself by priority post. They crossed the border in one day and then we could no longer track them. We checked in daily at the Main Post Office in Idaho Falls inquiring about them. Finally after a month they arrived, after sitting on a custom official’s desk in Seattle for all that time. Why would a pair of eyeglass frames sit on a U.S. custom official’s desk for so long, don’t they have the equipment to quickly scan such small packages and send them on their way? Hold ups can happen in either direction, but I detest the actions of CUPW which have held the citizens of Canada hostage usually around Christmas time almost every second year and nothing has ever been done about it! They are handsomely paid, they have taxi service paid to the start of their routes and then back to the post office and paid vacations and yet Canadians have laid back and accepted the semi-annual strike as something that is a regular event before the price of postage increases. Of course, since most of the strikes have happened under Liberal majority governments what else can I say? The Liberals would NEVER step in to mandate the workers back to work,(and the NDP are more Liberal than the Liberals re- Jack Layton the ever loving politician who when he was in Toronto City Council thought nothing of living in subsidized housing as a nice perk of his job when he could well afford to pay more for an apartment and let a poor person live in the apartment he was occupying) Thank God for small favors and a Majority Conservative Government! Finally a mandate to make the damned well paid workers get back to work and stop making Canadians hostage! Hurray! Posted by the Mrs Chief