I will try to help you as much as I can.

1- We have more parcels than christmas time;
2- We are short staffed because a lot of employees need to stay home for different reasons (stay with kids, those with health problems);
3- Facilities are the same size as before this pandemic, we dont have more docks to unload the stuff;
4- Since the major warehouses (Amazon, Best Buy and so on) are located in Mississauga, the Gateway sorting plant in Toronto have many vans that await to be unloaded (sorry, I don't know how man), here in Montréal I heard that we had 350 vans waiting to be unloaded, with an average of 2000 parcels per van.

I'm just a postman, so I can only talk about the reality of my office that I see each day:
Some routes have like 150 parcels everyday, Most of our routes are evaluated at around 35 parcels/day. Our little Ford Transit can't hold much more parcels than that. Everyday we leave with what we have, it's ''clean floor'' when we leave. In christmas time, they offer overtime to deliver parcels after our shifts and on week-ends, at my office, management don't offer overtime to deliver parcels after our shifts or in the week-ends. A lot of us postman, again at my office, offered ourselves to do overtime, but it is refused. No more delivery guarantee so no need to rush to deliver.

Management don't care, so they don't feel the need to rush the delivery of these parcels and who the people blame for the delays, we the employee. It's a tactic that they excell in. Yes, we have a union, but believe me when I say that we the don't have the power to stop or delay the parcels, only management has. Don't believe me? You still are receiving flyers in your mailbox? We asked to stop them because it forced us to go every door and it was denied.

If your parcel don't move for a coupe of days, weeks for others, it means that it is still inside a van, and I fear that vans are not unloaded in a first come first served basis.

I also think that parcels from outside the country are not the corps priority, I haven't seen many parcels from the USA quite as often as I have to before this pandemic started.

I hope it helps and we hope, as you do, that management change his mind about the overtime (it helps me buy my toys too)....

I don't even use Canada Post when I mail packages to the US anymore.  I can ship like 3 or 4 packages using USPS for the price of shipping one package from Canadapost across Canada.  Stuff I ship to the US are usually delivered before Canadapost even 'accepts' the package in the sorting facility.  Even my Ebay auctions, I charge way more for shipping within Canada than to the US even though I live in Canada.  That's just how sad things are. 

If I was not able to ship via USPS, I wouldn't be able to sell anything on Ebay cause the costs for shipping would be too cost prohibitive.

I do like the splash of colour on the new boxes, as I found the black boxes very dour. What I think hasbro thought of as classy I found boring.

I'll be glad to see her too, but I don't see any way that it can end well - we know Gideon has her Darksaber

They also have up preorders for all the announced TVC figures now including Luke Stormtrooper.

Sw E4 Vin Luke Skywalker Trooper https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B083ZZ6QC5/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_P6dTEbQ12Z0K5

Quote from: IanToronto on April 01, 2020, 04:34:52 PM

I was so excited to find a single BS Yavin Luke on the pegs....it was the only one I wanted as it has the corrected spelling of Skywalker on the box...Yay!

I never even knew they had corrected it.  I just never looked, but one Walmart by me has about 10 of this figure.

Well.... got a call this afternoon that my probe droid was ready for pickup but not until tomorrow........ then a few hours later they closed all stores....... Bleh