I make purchases from a few businesses in Canada. There are times that a package can make it from Victoria, B.C. to me in Boston, MA in five days via Canada Post, US Customs and the USPS. These are rare. The most common is for an order to be dispatched from a nearby location in Southern Ontario to Boston, MA to take anywhere from twelve days to thirty-six days. I do not blame any of these on the company doing the shipping. I had a small package of reeds for my bagpipes leave St Catharines, go to the sort facility in Kitchener, and leave Canada in two days. The same package shows up at the USPS sort facility twenty-two days later. Then several more transfers before delivery in Boston. The shipper did run a trace to find the package had sat around in a sort bin at US Customs for most of that time. Whether the international shipment is from Scotland by the Royal Mail or from Canada by way of Canada Post, most of the slow down is right here in the good ol' U.S.A.

I am a better Jones person for it.