re: Postal Rate Increase Effective January 11, 2016
Holey smokes! You will have to pay 90c to mail a letter within the country? Whew! Plus you have to pay taxes on the stamps when you purchase them? That makes our 49c rate seem like a pittance.
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re: Postal Rate Increase Effective January 11, 2016
The current price for first class 'regular' size postage within the UK is 63p. That does though permit up to 100g. but no more than 5mm thickness. That equates to Canadian $1.27 and US$.95. No doubt these will increase in the new year.
Aside from the different pricing from country to country, wouldn't it be nice to have a global service level structure; where sizing is standardised; where types of service (normal, registered, signed for, tracked etc) are standardised?
I think I'll start lobbying for a new organisation: I'll call it a Universal Postal Union, or UPU for short.
re: Postal Rate Increase Effective January 11, 2016
Yes Michael - Those are SOME of Canada Post's 2016 postage rates.
Theresa - the amount of tax a Canadian pays depends on which Province they live in. It depends whether the province has the Harmonized Sales Tax (Federal & Provincial combined) or if the two taxes are separated which result in that province only paying GST (Federal Tax) on postage. It's a complicated tax system especially when some postal services are subjected to fuel surtaxes on top of sales taxes.
There's two things in life that are certain if you live in Canada - death & taxes!!!
re: Postal Rate Increase Effective January 11, 2016
Michael - The tourism tax is when we take the US$ at Par from the tourists and say thank you for visiting us as we stuff the extra 35c on the dollar in our pockets. LOL
re: Postal Rate Increase Effective January 11, 2016
Hi everybody,
I read on the Canada Post site tha the increase is temporaly retrive by the order of the liberal governement on the 15 (+/-) of december... to give time to the minister to study all the reason for increase the fee..... sory for my so-so english but I am shure you understand me
"NO INCREASE IN JANUARY 2016"
If you want to find the notice on CanadaPost make a search on the main page.... good luck
re: Postal Rate Increase Effective January 11, 2016
I wonder what is happening with all the printed stamps that were made to accmomodate the new rates? I bet some will find the market via the back door, and create a speculative market for stamp dealers. (That has previously happened in 1994 with the 2 denominations of the christmas stamps (52c and 90c that were pulled and re-issued as 50 and 88c)
re: Postal Rate Increase Effective January 11, 2016
Gilles:
My sister works at Canada Post in Mississauga. She forwarded me an e-mail "to all employees" stating that the 85-cent to 90-cent domestic letter rate will not go ahead as planned on the 11th of January. The gov't wants to study it. No mention of the other rates going up or not.
Everyone is in a holding pattern. I don't think anyone at Canada Post knows what is going on.
David
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