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Valued Member
Canada
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**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 to terminate this Offer at any time.
*** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Thats great!
Sending letter-mails to the people will be cheaper.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Well, I don't get where the bargain is. It's .65 now, so isn't that a savings of a whopping .02 per letter up to 30g!?  I thought it was supposed to be .63 until the end of March, at which time the rate will jump to $1 per letter!?!? Now, if we could buy p's for .63 until the end of the March, that would be a reduced rate, IMO... but apparently p's have been pulled off the shelves?!?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The price is still cheap as ever to send a small package across the globe. The fact that the price almost doubled is what people find disturbing, especially when the normal rate climbed 2-3 cents per year. It's like when phone calls went from being 25 cents to 50 cents. Still super cheap but it's the initial shock of paying double for the same service.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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What? Fifty cents?!? Phone calls are a dime...aren't they? (this thread is kind of off topic isn't it? ) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1234 Posts |
In old movies when they said 'Drop a Dime' they meant to call the police with a dime in a phone booth... now everyone has cellphones. Getting a paper letter that is not a bill or a corporate ad hardly happens now, it's almost impossible to exist now with out an e-mail address, and most of that is junk anyway.
The 'Forever Stamps' in USA are kind of a joke, you buy them now then use them before they raise the price, then have to buy the next set at the higher rate.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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If I understood Canada Post has reduced the price to it's previous price only for 3 months, so from April the new price will be $1 right?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I remember when a Saturday Toronto Star was $1.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I remember when the Toronto Star was a newspaper  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
548 Posts |
So now we know - Barrie is really Rob Ford!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think the single stamp price will be $1.
But going forward, the multiple pre-purchase is 85 cents per.
I believe the US just raised theirs to 49 cents. But, there you have 9x as many people pushing lettermail over the same approx. distances.
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Posted 01/16/2014 09:21 am
