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November 21

Can I ask about ups or fedex in New Zealand?

Is there a ups or fedex store in North Auckland? I'm asking a friend in NZ to send a xmas gift. 66.183.24.246 (talk) 00:15, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

What were results of the Google search when you asked Google about locations of UPS stores or FedEx stores in North Aukland, New Zealand? What did you learn from Google when you did that?--Jayron32 01:01, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Is there any other express mail services that work in NZ besides Fedex and UPS? My friend doesn't live near the locations that I looked up. 66.183.24.246 (talk) 01:54, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes several. It might help if you clarify what you're friend is trying to do. Do you want your friend to send something via express service from North Auckland to British Columbia in Canada, and they or you want to send it via a physical location rather than pickup? If so, the simplest and cheapest option for someone who is not regularly sending items is probably NZ Post's [1] International Express Courier service [2] since this can be sent via any PostShop [3]. Note that in this case, I can't recommend International Courier [4]. Although that option is often good enough, since it goes via EMS the Canada Post strikes [5] are likely to mean a significantly delayed delivery [6]. I'm not sure who handles the delivery for the express courier service but I think it may still be DHL [7] but in any case it's not directly affected by the Canada Post strikes per the earlier link. Incidentally DHL still operates independently [8] although as with most other couriers they have few physical locations relying mostly on pickup services which are undoubtedly preferred by their business customers anyway. Likewise other services [9] [10] [11]. Note that while some couriers do have dropoff agents for small volume senders for national delivery services e.g. Fastway [12] AFAIK, most of these still don't deal with international delivery services via their drop off locations although I'm fairly sure some services do allow pickup services for one off deliveries. (And it occurs to me it's possible some may allow you to drop off something at their agents if you've prearranged a delivery.) BTW North Auckland is fairly ambigious. Do you mean the North Shore, New Zealand or further north like Orewa? Nil Einne (talk) 03:42, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

I'll need to ask my friend in where she specifically lives. She would be sending a gift to where I live. By the way, what was the longest postal strike in Canada before this current one? 66.183.24.246 (talk) 14:39, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Here's an article from the Canadian Encyclopedia on postal strikes in Canada [13]. The one in the summer of 1981 was particularly long and damaging, and the 1974-75 strikes were also quite bad (citizens were much more dependent on the postal service for all sorts of things back then). --Xuxl (talk) 15:14, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

should I ask at a template or a wikiproject?

From one show I made, from WP:SPLIT, into season 1 to, ect. Like My Hero Academia Season 2, there is a short sentence for a t.v. rating, but from Template:Japanese episode list doesn't have an item similar to | Viewers = as taken from Template:Episode list. Then is there a way to change it to a number and not a sentence explaning the rating to an episode? Tainted-wingsz (talk) 00:22, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

upon looking at it, I'm more inclined to ask at the help desk. Tainted-wingsz (talk) 19:46, 21 November 2018 (UTC)