Sending Our Love Across the Miles Via Canada Post

Time flies! It seemed like yesterday when we brought our younger new infant home from the East York General hospital in a baby basket with us more than three decades ago!  In a twinkling of the eyes, they  are grown, healthy, working and leading their own independent lives. We thank God for all His blessings upon our family for the past many years.

 Though our two grown children do not live in the same city as ours, we do keep in close contact with them via social medias such as emails, text messages and Skype. We talked to J. who is living and teaching in South Korea today and he told us that he received our birthday parcel a day after his birthday at school. He said when he opened the gift from us, he had tears in his eyes as he looked at how much it cost us to send it to him. He felt so much love from us and it was the thought that counted. He was going to enjoy his treats slowly as he knew that these were treats of love from his parents. I was very happy to hear that!!! The expensive postage was worth it!

I always wonder how long does it take to have a parcel sent to a foreign country from Canada via post mail? I got my answer this time. It took  ten days ( including Saturday and Sunday) to have a parcel delivered via Canada Post's Express Mail service from Canada to South Korea. This was important information for us as we need to remember that for the next time when we want our loved ones to receive our packages of love in time for any special occasions!

A week later, it was our first born' child's birthday. I looked up the address for his company and we also sent a birthday parcel to E. in San Fransisco. Since E. is working in the States and he could buy anything we can buy in Canada, I used a smaller parcel box.

 What should we send our grown son for his birthday?  I spent days trying to send him something which was meaningful and he would enjoy.  Finally, a light bulb went on in my head! 

 E. loves playing games! Why not send him a game that would challenge his grey matter?

I got him a 3 D puzzle which came with three levels of difficulty. Knowing how much he enjoys challenges, we picked a Level 3 which stated in the package "As in Calculus" ! That did it for me! Calculus was not easy for me, therefore it should not be too easy for E., I hope.

To give our son a taste of home, we also included a box of P.C. Birthday Cookies, a P.C. Ginger Peach Herbal Tea and couple other little package of chocolates to fill up the box.






This time I was a little smarter. Before we paid for all the little treats, we made sure they could all fit inside the parcel box and the weight was within a certain amount. For a parcel that was just a little over one kilogram it was around Can.$ 25.00.

 We packaged it and sent it on Wednesday evening the week of Good Friday.  We were told that it would take around four business days.

 E. sent me a lovely email to thank us on the following Wednesday, which meant discounting the holidays and weekend, it took 3-4 days for  Canada Post's Express Mail to deliver a package to our son in San Fransisco. Not bad at all! 

Judging from the reactions and the emails we got from our two grown children, no matter how old we are, we will always be happy to receive a birthday  gift! The gift does not have to be expensive, just some thought about the person, that's all it counts!

R.T.
Toronto