Canada Post New Domestic Letter Rate Jan 13 / 2014

From Canada Post .ca
http://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/a...ndPostOffice
In Canada
0-30g $0.65** | 30-50g $1.10 | 50-100g $1.34
**Effective January 13, 2014, Canada Post is accepting all standard lettermail items weighing up to 30 g and mailed within Canada at a reduced rate of $0.63 until March 31, 2014, subject to this Offer. Canada Post has the right terminate this Offer at any time.

?????? Rate rises then is - what - deferred? Whazzat?

possibly means to cleanse the system of all 'permanent' rate postage sold prior to taking them off sale (?) and after that date (or prior)declare permanent postage invalid?????

What it means is that previous scheduled annual 2c increase
for domestic mail up to 30 grams has been scrapped.
So instead of paying 65c it remains at 63c until
March 31, 2014 when the really high rates will jump in.

To me it seems just a way to placate the public for awhile.
As if saving 2c on a letter is going to make up for what
will happen to postal rates after March 31.

The Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra is in deep doody
for his recent actions, actually non actions
and remarks about the GTA ice storm.
Maybe that also has something to do with it.

Our politicians and these over paid departmental mandarins
must think we're really stupid to be able to get away
with all of this.

You know what ? We are, for constantly allowing them to
get away with it.

The CEO of Canada Post is not a "departmental mandarin." And CPC is not a department.

Please, please I know that the Crown corporation called Canada Post Corporation is no longer the Post Office Department and
that the CPC CEO is not Postmaster General of Canada.

The announcemnet means that it Now costs 65c plus tax to mail a letter within Canada.

IF you still have any 63c stamps they will be also accepted until the March 31 new announcement takes place (pending approval).

Any link to Mr Chopra's GTA words or news?

Then why puzzler do all the new stamps due to come out in the next month have the 63c denomination on them?
In the Jan -Feb 2014 Details the Chinese new year stamp, the black history stamps and pioneers of winter sports stamps all have
63c imprinted on them on them.
And as it states on the CP announcement in the first post of your
thread Effective January 13, 2014, Canada Post is accepting all standard lettermail items weighing up to 30 g and mailed within Canada at a reduced rate of $0.63 until March 31, 2014,

Here is a link to the Toronto Star article for you puzzler
as you asked.
Deepak Chopra is the guy who said that the community
mail boxes are good for seniors because it will get them
to excercise more.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201..._better.html

I like this article by Heather Mallick below.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/comm...mallick.html

Litho you have said it all well.

Thank you for the links.

I read the announcement the other way. It seems it is written so that one could do that. Hmmm.

Thanks BeeSee, how is the weather out in BC?

Litho, 10c (50f) and sunny :)

Gee, I hadn't realised that mail delivery would come to that seeming extreme, as in the picture, seems to me anyway.

I have only seen two boxes set side by side in a drive by area in the country-side here.


Any stamps on the ground there? juh? huh? Meters? POCONs?

LOL this is funny because the rate change happened on 13 January 2014 which is the same date that the year of the horse stamps were issued which means that the day the stamps were issued, they were already insufficient postage (technically).