Canada Post’s website (canadapost.ca) has been offline for most of the day today. The first posting about the problems they were experiencing was posted this morning at 10 am.

Monday September 17, 2007 10:00AM
We regret that most of canadapost.ca is currently not available.

Our technical service provider has experienced an unexpected failure.

We are taking all steps necessary to restore our Web site as quickly as possible.

We hope to be back fully operational by 3PM (EDT).

We will provide regular updates on this site throughout the day.

No word at this point as to how deep this problem runs. I was expecting a package delivery today but, no sign of it. Come to think of it there was no mail delivery today at home or the office. Hmmm.

Here is a screen capture from the Canada Post website from 6:30 pm today.

OK, being the curious sort I tried to find a page that was working. I happened upon one and decided to take a chance to see if I could track my wayward package.

Nope. No such luck.

So, I tried to query the server to ascertain what version of ISA they were running.

Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 2074

500 ( Connection refused )

Stumped again. Ah well. Hopefully they are exercising their disaster recovery plans.

Tags: Canada Post Site Failure, Canada Post Website Down, Disaster Recovery