This Is A Bit Too Much..!

I had to mail a bill today, probably first time in a couple of years...It is mailed to a business 8 miles away..It cost me $1.16 for a stamp...!
It would have been better to deliver it myself and waste a $1.00 on gas..!!

Who care, I don't use Canada Post anymore, they can die .... I hate them so much since they starts to sell crap souvenirs stuff instead of made nice engraved stamps. My company send all the invoice and statements by email, we charge $1 per invoice if they want it by mail. We call it the Green Turn. Even when I purchase book at Amazon they deliver it with UPS, cost me about $ 70 for an annual subscription to free shipping. Well worth with all the book I purchase.

I hear you wert! Went to the post office the other day to mail a stamp lot to France, and the clerk told me I had to pay an extra fee. I asked her what the surcharge was for and she responded, "for what you wrote on the envelope ." It was Please Do Not Bend. How disappointing.

They shoot in their own feet, one day they will loose those jobs , Post Canada is a crown company,public employees earn more than in private, they are over paid, so if they close post office, no one will hire them at $20+ an hours they will work at $ 10 minimum salary.

bookbndrbob...You got to be kidding..Maybe if that gets around, they will start charging us for putting a destination address on it to..That is ridiculous.

area66...Is that all they make..??..Wow

Robert

In our company only few earn over $20, we have 3000 employees, time are hard, no way with salary like they have at Canada Post our company will survive. I don't do politic but I do business, they have to start to cut on the employees of companies who don't bring money.

Canada Post lost 23 millions last 2 quarters and they still give bonus to all their employees and the President get a 33% bonus, since when you give a bonus to a looser, you fire him... Bonus to employees, lol, they are very lucky to still have job. Just to give you an idea I have a guy ho have a diploma in computer science from university of Montréal, he is working in the warehouse at minimum salary, they are no job in computer industry.

and don't get me wrong, if I can I will double salary tomorrow and give free lunch to everyone.

I wish the government would act faster on their 2013 promise to eliminate fees for bills.

well our company don't send invoice to general public, the only one with account are contractors, they all have secretaries, computers and emails. And we are in 2015. And don't let me start on fax.

I have never heard of a surcharge for "do not bend".

CP charges by weight and size only. That clerk was wrong as far as I am aware.

"Please do not bend" merely alerts that carrier to be a little careful, especially if tempted to fold the item to fit in a mail slot.

My son worked for UPS for a summer and he said a lot of workers that had packages that had "Handle with care" were thrown around just for the fun of it...I would imagine CP (some) employees did the same thing.

In the U.S., simply having the words "Do Not Bend" should not result in an additional service charge. However, some postal clerks automatically invoke the non-machineable service charge which in the U.S. is 21 cents. That charge should be levied on items that are not easily bent, odd-shape and other actual physical characteristics that do not make it easy for it to travel through the postal machinery. The "Do not bend" marking as criteria was stricken from the USPS DMM (Domestic mail manual) years ago, but I guess some clerks still hold on to it. I've run across a couple like that. One clerk was even worse - thought "Do Not Bend" automatically made a letter a parcel. As a sender, you have to make sure you know what the rates and rules are and hold the clerks feet to the fire to make sure they do their jobs correctly. It can be done friendly matter and have them look it up if necessary.

Battlestamps

Unfortunately...The US postal, Canada Post and UPS hold a gun to our heads..They have the right ( in their minds) to do, to charge, to change what ever they want..And we as customers do not have the right to argue with them...Pity

Wert: I don't know about Canada Post and I never use UPS, but you can work with the USPS. Again, if you have the knowledge of how the system works then you can use. If you have a clerk who doesn't abide by the rules then go over their heads to the postmaster. If that doesn't work - then try a different post office till you find one who knows the rules and will work with you. And always - kill with kindness. Get mad at someone won't get you a thing.

The USPS has (and I find this both bizarre and humorous because of the double - or maybe even triple entendre) - a "stiff rate" so if you are sending a stamp order with a stiffiner then yes, you pay a surcharge.

True, the USPS has a "flexibility" standard for mail. If it doesn't bend a surcharge is imposed. If you mark a piece of mail DO NOT BEND some clerks will automatically impose the surcharge regardless of whether or not the item meets the standard.

Just to clarify, the USPS uses the term "nonmachinable". That designation results in the surcharge.

In theory, if one were to mark an envelope "Do Not Bend" the surcharge would apply since the letter cannot be put into USPS sorting machines because it would have to bend in order to do so.

In actual practice, the USPS regulations allow for the use of the "Do Not Bend" marking only on packages containing items protected with "stiffeners", thus, if it contains a stiffener, it is considered to be "nonmachinable" (see bottom of the link below):

http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub2/pub2c5_001.html

The actual detail right out of the USPS Manual is recited below: