Thank goodness for this UPS location! My grad school application was due today, which of course means that two days ago I was in quite a state as I tried to find someone who could ship the thing to Alberta. I went to two shipping places (both sort of grungy and staffed by folks who clearly weren't the least bit interested in my desperate quest) and neither could help me. By the time I reached this UPS location I was giving up hope and at my wits end, already envisioning myself going through the whole application process again next year because I waited too long to ship the application.
Happily, we won't find out what might have happened if my shipping efforts were once again thwarted, because this UPS location saved me. As soon as I walked in I knew this place was different. It's convenient (steps from Christie station), clean, bright, and organized. The fellow working answered my desperate "please tell me you can get this there by tomorrow" with a reassuringly confident "of course we can" and then proceeded to make that happen while being polite and patient. The cost was less than I'd been quoted by either of the other places I visited. And (the real point, I suppose) the package arrived exactly on schedule, less than 24 hours after I entered the UPS store. UPS FTW!