Hello everyone,
I'm writing this post both to share some lessons in sending passport and to get some answers regarding my puzzles.
I was very fortunate to receive a PPR on September 19. The email asked me to mail my passport to Ottawa and include a return envelope (see exact instructions below):
"If your documents are being returned to a Canadian mailing address, please submit a Pre-paid Xpresspost envelope from Canada Post or a pre-paid return envelope from any other courier service."
"If you have a mailing address in Canada, please submit by mail in a single package all required documents {including Passport(s) OR photocopy(ies) of passport(s)}, to the following address:"
So, very naively, on the next day that I received the PPR, I sent my passport using regular mail, and asked the staff at Canada Post to give me a pre-paid envelope for returning passport from Ottawa. I explicitly chose regular mail because I thought that was the instruction in the email, and I did not want to deviate from those instructions at this final stage of application.
However, later on, I realized that I should actually use Xpresspost to send my passport as well - that will shorten the delivery from 4 business days to 2 business day. More surprisingly, yesterday when I received a shipping notification regarding an item from Ottawa, the tracking number was different from the envelope that I sent, and the service is expedited parcels (4 business day for national delivery), rather than Xpresspost (2 business day for national delivery).
My suggestion: When sending the passport, get two large Xpresspost pre-paid envelopes. Someone on this forum said, just fold the return envelope and put it inside the outbound envelope.
My questions:
1) Did Ottawa CPC change the shipping method because the original envelope is too small, or the pre-paid postage for the small envelope (max weight = 500g) is not enough?
2) Does anybody have any experience with expedited parcels? Any possibility that the delivery time is shorter than 4 business days?
Another question, does anybody want to do a flagpole at Emerson, Manitoba next week?
I'm writing this post both to share some lessons in sending passport and to get some answers regarding my puzzles.
I was very fortunate to receive a PPR on September 19. The email asked me to mail my passport to Ottawa and include a return envelope (see exact instructions below):
"If your documents are being returned to a Canadian mailing address, please submit a Pre-paid Xpresspost envelope from Canada Post or a pre-paid return envelope from any other courier service."
"If you have a mailing address in Canada, please submit by mail in a single package all required documents {including Passport(s) OR photocopy(ies) of passport(s)}, to the following address:"
So, very naively, on the next day that I received the PPR, I sent my passport using regular mail, and asked the staff at Canada Post to give me a pre-paid envelope for returning passport from Ottawa. I explicitly chose regular mail because I thought that was the instruction in the email, and I did not want to deviate from those instructions at this final stage of application.
However, later on, I realized that I should actually use Xpresspost to send my passport as well - that will shorten the delivery from 4 business days to 2 business day. More surprisingly, yesterday when I received a shipping notification regarding an item from Ottawa, the tracking number was different from the envelope that I sent, and the service is expedited parcels (4 business day for national delivery), rather than Xpresspost (2 business day for national delivery).
My suggestion: When sending the passport, get two large Xpresspost pre-paid envelopes. Someone on this forum said, just fold the return envelope and put it inside the outbound envelope.
My questions:
1) Did Ottawa CPC change the shipping method because the original envelope is too small, or the pre-paid postage for the small envelope (max weight = 500g) is not enough?
2) Does anybody have any experience with expedited parcels? Any possibility that the delivery time is shorter than 4 business days?
Another question, does anybody want to do a flagpole at Emerson, Manitoba next week?
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