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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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In case anyone is planning to order from the mint.ca site in the next while, this announcement, posted at the mint.ca site, might be of interest to you:  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Probably, many new limited sets will be introduced, cause everything unsold must go till the 2014....
Hope, that's not the reason, and some useful innovations / changes planned to be deployed as website new functionality.
Or maybe new interface?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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^Maybe. Better late than never but it's probably just new sets for the Christmas season.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
548 Posts |
There are sending all employees down to Shipping to clear the backlog there...
...we wish.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
6768 Posts |
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There are sending all employees down to Shipping to clear the backlog there...
...we wish. They wish too... Imagine which additional profit the Mint could report for 2013. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
867 Posts |
Obamacare will now be available via the mint's newly updated site. All of our American friends are invited to sign up...  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
576 Posts |
Early Friday afternoon (eastern Canada) checked the RCM site. It was up again. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3690 Posts |
Per the message, its down Saturday at 5pm until Sunday at 5pm.
That's more than regular maintenance. Have to believe that it's a system upgrade - either software or hardware.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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(CNN) -- HealthCare.gov, the problem-plagued federal online site for signing up for insurance under Obamacare, will go down for extended maintenance on Friday night and overnight ahead of Saturday's deadline to have it working for most people, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.
The Obamacare question: Can the website handle the volume?
The overnight maintenance overnight is set to last from 9 p.m. ET Friday until 8 a.m. ET Saturday. Oh wait a minute, it's the mint's site we're talking about...  |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Is it not perfect timing for on-line shoppers to visit Canada Post during the maintenance and save 15% on nearly all Royal Canadian Mint coins?! Perhaps the Mint knew Canada Post's sale - and decided to lay low from the embarrassment of not having a Black Friday sale. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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I don't think the RCM is capable of being embarrassed about anything they do. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Is there something about being a crown corp. that makes it harder to subcontract shippers and freighters? With the profit they make I think they can afford to do it. What are they achieving by holding everybody's money for a long period of time?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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At the risk of repeating, the delays are not a result of physical shipping. They are production related.
As well, the Mint had some significant water damage last month that impacted their production schedules. Because it's not public knowledge, I can't give details.
They also don't charge customers until items are shipped so I don't see how they are "holding everybody's money for a long period of time".
That said, no matter what the cause, these delays are certainly frustrating.
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11/30/2013 12:31 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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The announcement is now posted on the front page of the RCM mint site. The site won't be available until tomorrow (Dec. 1) at 5:00 p.m. Eastern... |
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Valued Member
United States
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Website is back up, but it's sluggggishhhhh........
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Posted 11/28/2013 11:54 pm
