The Canada Post strike is delaying product shipments — including ones from Flic Film, Reveni Labs, Camera Traders, and Analog.Cafe.
Canada Post is part of an EMS system that coordinates shipments via various countries’ domestic/government mail services. It’s often the cheapest, safest, and easiest way for small businesses and individuals to ship goods. This is what I use when I ship film, cameras, books and accessories from the Analog.Cafe-associated Etsy shop, FilmBase: filmbase.etsy.com
Canadian film photography businesses you may’ve heard of that rely on EMS include Flic Film, Reveni Labs, Camera Traders, and Analog.Cafe. If you plan to shop at any of those places in the next few weeks, double-check the shipping times!
How the Canada Post strike is affecting Analog.Cafe and other small Canadian businesses: update.
Canada Post isn’t the only courier service available here. Of course, there is DHL, UPS, and FedEx, all of which are significantly more expensive than EMS (and not necessarily better). There are also smaller, localized couriers, like Chit Chats, which I’ve been using to fulfill orders at my Etsy store (FilmBase).
Unfortunately, shipments via EMS that started before the strike are in limbo.
(This includes my customers expecting a film camera in the mail… My apologies, and thank you so much for your patience! This will eventually be resolved, but please feel free to contact me regarding your order anytime at [email protected].)
EMS is a network of local mail services, such as Canada Post, USPS, and Royal Mail, that allows us to ship using cheap, reliable, and familiar services. ems.post/en
Many shipments can’t come to Canada because the seller is shipping via EMS, blocked by Canada Post, where I live.
This means I may not get new cameras and gear for review for a long time. I’m also waiting for a component for making an instant film camera from scratch — which is suck in EMS as well. Similar issues may affect others like Flic Film, Camera Traders, Downtown Camera, and Beau.
But the good news is that there are no problems with outgoing shipments or returns. A whole bunch of gear is on sale at FilmBase until December 3: filmbase.etsy.com/ 😉
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