Over the weekend I *may* have been trying not to address the fact that without notice Canada Post went on strike AGAIN!
I dropped off an armload of orders at a post office in the afternoon, drove home and found out that they had gone on strike.
Once in the system you can’t go get you packages back out (unfortunately).
I was hoping for some news this morning, but even the major news outlets are quiet.

But, I did have a dream where the header on my website read “I ship lettermail” – Stephen King. 
That kind of says it all.
The horrors obviously persist!

Disclaimer: “I ship lettermail” – Stephen King is not an actual Stephen King quote. I don’t even know a Stephen King, except the famous one who writes horror and I don’t actually know him (surprise!).

Edit: I added the title to my header, I figure at this point I need to lean into these persisting shipping horrors 🙂

If you are wondering… “How do I order then?”
Use the shopping cart as normal.
Read on for which shipping method to choose… (this is a repeat of info on another strike post with updates)

Americans: Sorry, still not shipping. It’s so complicated with goods having different countries of origin and figuring out tariffs in advance. The fees for sending CUSMA compliant 0% duty items also are an additional expense.

Canadian Option 1: If you order your items ‘expedited’ to a street address or area where couriers actually go (not sent ‘last mile’ by Canada Post), we will try ship them by courier (probably Purolator). If you know couriers don’t go to your home, but will drop at work, etc, you can add a different street address when ordering.

Canadian Option 2: If you order your items by lettermail we will hold them until the strike is over, or send courier if we can not lose too much money doing so. Sorry, I can’t subsidize $20+ to ship what would be $4.29 lettermail, but if you paid $12+ in lettermail and I can ship for $18 courier, then I will subsidize. Basically, if I can not lose too much shipping your item, I’ll ship it for the lettermail price you paid. It comes with a tracking number.

Canadian Option 3: If you want the cheap lettermail shipping prices and know you are in no rush, you can still order and I’ll send when strike is over – feel free to add that in your order notes, super handy 🙂

Questions? Feel free to reach out via my contact form. That’s the easiest way for me.

Again, my apologies. It’s been a (another) wild time over here with dealing with overloaded couriers (who don’t usually do rural pick ups, so I’m driving farther to drop off) and figuring out solutions! Living in large urban areas (Vancouver, Toronto, etc) means access to cheaper couriers. Where Bear Dance Crafts is, we have to mail into those places – and sending a box by courier to them isn’t cheap. The last strike we subsidized shipments (cost us more to ship than customers paid) then had to courier boxes to Vancouver also out of pocket. Some of those shipments were lost and had to be replaced too – so I am not overly excited to to do that again.

**You can also leave a note on your orders. Are you in a rush? Are you okay waiting to see what happens with the strike? Please feel free to leave me a note about what is ideal or any important information a courier might need, like a buzzer number **