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pierrelebel · ‎05-27-2015

Latest announcement from eBay.com:

http://announcements.ebay.com/2015/05/usps-to-change-rates-on-may-31/

http://pages.ebay.com/usps/USPSsavings.html

USPS Tracking for Media Mail is now free

cumos55 · ‎05-27-2015

Canada Post Small Business Solutions

https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/pages/smallbusiness/default.page

Click on the "pluses" to the right next to Canada, US and Internationally at the bottom of this page

and view the savings....

Ventureone has become Small Business Solutions.

Canada Post is making adjustments... in relation to .... The On-line World... Canada Post's new view of things

cumos55 · ‎05-27-2015

The USPS is limited by law with respect to how much they can increase the cost of postage each year....

A few years ago USPS proposed a series of high increases in rate.... But they were told.... "NO"..... By law....

The regulatory controls on USPS are different than on Canada Post.

cumos55 · ‎05-27-2015

Not easy to compete.

But.....It can be done...

Why compete?... Set your own standard and make it work for you.

Create a unique experience on eBay.

and in many instances.... it depends on what a Canadian seller chooses to sell

toff3 · ‎05-27-2015

@cumos55 wrote:

The regulatory controls on USPS are different than on Canada Post.

You can certainly say that again. In fact, there are NO regulatory controls on Canada Post.

In what other country would the postal service be allowed to announce - after parliament has risen for the Christmas holiday - that the price of a domestic stamp will increase by 59% and that doorstep mail delivery will be eliminated in 5 years' time?

Only in Canada....

Tom

femmefan1946 · ‎05-27-2015

That will have an impact on sellers of CDs and DVDs. Less on booksellers.

Magazines and catalogues 'can't' be sent media mail because they contain advertisements.

What else is covered by Media Mail?

My wish list includes cheap tracking on any online purchased shipping label. If it already has a barcode, even if the barcode does not track, putting a scanner on the mail truck for Confirmation of Delivery will give the few remaining posties something to do at the community mailbox.

Besides removing all the garbage dropped by the recipients.

pjcdn2005 · ‎05-27-2015

http://www.stamps.com/whitepapers/media-mail-rate-guide.pdf

According to that link, tracking was .23. If the 2.3% increase is added to the before tracking rate they will be paying less with tracking than they are now.

http://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121.htm

Media Mail® service has special eligibility requirements for permissible contents. Media Mail rates are limited to the items listed below:

Books (at least 8 pages).
Sound recordings and video recordings, such as CDs and DVDs.
Playscripts and manuscripts for books, periodicals, and music.
Printed music.
Computer-readable media containing prerecorded information and guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such media.
Sixteen millimeter or narrower width films.
Printed objective test materials and their accessories.
Printed educational reference charts.
Loose-leaf pages and their binders consisting of medical information for distribution to doctors, hospitals, medical schools, and medical students.

Media Mail Packages may not contain advertising except that books may contain incidental announcements of other books and sound recordings may contain incidental announcements of other sound recordings. In accordance

cumos55 · ‎05-28-2015

It was recently noted on .com... that the ruling with respect to advertising in a magazine applies whether the magazine was recently published or published years or decades ago..... No exemption...

eBay's maximum for shipping books... media on .com is based on the cost of shipping a book via Media Mail....

The maximum does not apply if the shipping calculator is used....

femmefan1946 · ‎05-28-2015

Which means that Canadians who don't want to be restricted to the $4.00USD cap on Flat Rate Shipping, should be listing on dotCA where we can use Flat Rate shipping , 'Free' shipping, or Calculated shipping depending on the dimensions, weight, value and procurement cost of our 'media ' items.