Canadapost stamp increase from 63 to 85 cents.

[ZenOps]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...very-1.2459618

Buuuuurrnn.

I remember when it was five cents.

[hurrdurr]

yeah 22c per stamp is gonna help them recoup that 104m loss.

Go home Canadapost, you're drunk

[benyl]

Originally posted by hurrdurr
yeah 22c per stamp is gonna help them recoup that 104m loss.

Go home Canadapost, you're drunk

you aren't very good at reading are you.

�5,094,694 people get door-to-door delivery in Canada.
�Average cost per address is $269.
�3,804, 574 get mail through group mail boxes.
�Average cost per box is $117.

$1,370,472,686 for individual delivery.

That is a lot of cash to be saved. Let say you put 36 addresses per box, that translates to $1,655,755.

That is a roughly $1 Billion in savings if you allot $300 million for changing over the boxes.

[Tik-Tok]

85 cents if in a pack. $1 individually.

Don't send enough snail mail to care, but I certainly don't like the rest of that article. Fuck CMB's. I like my mail delivered to my house. I don't have a clue where they could even put one in my hood.

[rage2]

The big item is that inner city is losing to the door delivery and going with supermailboxes. That was one of the few positives living inner city for me.

[BigShow]

As long as they don't start charging to receive epost, I could care less.

[TomcoPDR]

Originally posted by ZenOps
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...very-1.2459618

Buuuuurrnn.

I remember when it was five cents.

Investing in those permanent "P" stamps will soon be worth more than the nickel.

[AndyL]

So they're actively driving the only users of their service away?

Its the enmaxs etc that need Canada post - 30% hike - they'll find other alternatives again.

They already lost the Amazon's etc - you'd think they'd be more interested in the bit companies who send out 20,000 pieces per day - not the mom and pop who send out a dozen Christmas cards per year...

[sexualbanana]

I work for a non-profit and send out mail on the regular. This is going to crush my budget.

[revelations]

GLad I bought a 50$ roll of stamps.. but it has to be done to keep the Canada Post going ....

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by AndyL
So they're actively driving the only users of their service away?

Its the enmaxs etc that need Canada post - 30% hike - they'll find other alternatives again.

They already lost the Amazon's etc - you'd think they'd be more interested in the bit companies who send out 20,000 pieces per day - not the mom and pop who send out a dozen Christmas cards per year...

The market is getting smaller. Everyone is trying to make you pay for paper bills or statements. Internet has taken over.

That said, I still prefer CanadaPost over UPS/Fedex. You have to admit, CP has a much higher overhead than private couriers as private can cherry pick who they service.

Like many crown crop, they are already switching away from direct hire to outsourcing. Mail delivery and sorting are now done by contractors on fixed cost. But CP has a large obligation to pension for the old gen workers and with revenue going south, their financial situation will get worse.

[hurrdurr]

Originally posted by benyl


you aren't very good at reading are you.



$1,370,472,686 for individual delivery.

That is a lot of cash to be saved. Let say you put 36 addresses per box, that translates to $1,655,755.

That is a roughly $1 Billion in savings if you allot $300 million for changing over the boxes.

Reading > Me.

[thetransporter]

I wish CP would push a program with amazon and ebay where it had a streamlined/default process to order anything from the US , as many US sellers are too stupid to mail to Canada (they call it over seas) this way less business to UPS and more to CP. But ordering from China - the Chinese get things faster here and cheaper.

and CP mail forwarding is a joke @ $50 the USPS website is $1 ( I do know they have 300million more people)

but now ebay is collecting "import" fees when you buy something from the US.

[rage2]

I believe DHL and UPS *does* have a streamlined shipping process. Duties are all included and paid for in your shipping quote, so none of the brokerage crap. The problem is that vendors are not taking advantage of it.

[adam c]

I could be missing something here but on the webpage it shows 9.8 billion pieces of mail delivered in Canada
so that's 9,800,000,000 x $0.63 = $6,174,000,000

so their operations costs are $6.3 billion?

[yellowsnow]

feel sorry for my mail carrier... she's been delivering mail to our street for over 15 years apparently

[ercchry]

fuck off! i dont want a superbox

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by adam c
I could be missing something here but on the webpage it shows 9.8 billion pieces of mail delivered in Canada
so that's 9,800,000,000 x $0.63 = $6,174,000,000

so their operations costs are $6.3 billion?

Not everything is shipped from Canada.

I could be wrong, if you pay a stamp in HK to mail a letter, Canadapost doesn't get paid to deliver that on the Canadian side. But it's done with agreement that HK will also do the same when we send them a letter.

Since we all order cheap shit from China these days with standard postal service, CanadaPost will have to deliver all those cheap crap with no recourse.

[adam c]

Originally posted by Xtrema


Not everything is shipped from Canada.

I could be wrong, if you pay a stamp in HK to mail a letter, Canadapost doesn't get paid to deliver that on the Canadian side. But it's done with agreement that HK will also do the same when we send them a letter.

Since we all order cheap shit from China these days with standard postal service, CanadaPost will have to deliver all those cheap crap with no recourse.

I've ordered cheap shit from China and the US and they came with Canadian stamps? CP must be selling their stamps overseas?

[toyboy88]

Originally posted by ercchry
fuck off! i dont want a superbox

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