Postes Canada

This is my closest post office to home. It’s in the Shoppers Drug Mart In the north east corner of the store (used to be south east before the renos). It’s an average post office.
This outlet is tiny and doesn’t offer a lot of packaging options but has a small sampling. Unlike other larger outlets, there isn’t really an area that isn’t «in line» where you can assemble your parcel or write on it etc without being in the way. So my advice would be to come prepared.
Parking wise, weekday evenings are the best time to pick up a parcel so you can park outside the doors. Otherwise you are walking more into the Safeway parking area, dodging cars etc. Especially important if you are picking up a larger item.
I rarely find a line up here of more than 1 – 2 people. Which is good because the staff don’t move very fast. They are polite at best but no one is overly friendly or seems to care about the customer. Around Christmas they understandable get extra stressed and have no sense of humour so don’t try joking with them (I’ve tried).
One thing to note: A few Christmases now they’ve told em I don’t have enough time to «regular parcel mail» gifts before Christmas and have told me to pay to guarantee delivery. In all cases, the regular parcels I sent got there at the same time as the ones I paid extra for. Of course there are no guarantees but if you are willing to take a chance, you can save a lot of money, especially if you are sending to another major city.
They do have some neat collectible stamps available for purchase and boxes for shipping smart phones etc which I haven’t seen at some other post offices. That is handy to know!