POSTAGE QUESTION

[momoftwingles2]

I was just reading the Canada Post website and came across this:

Domestic Lettermail Price Change
The basic letter rate for Standard (S/L) items up to 30 g increased to $0.54 effective January 12, 2009, reflecting a two-cent increase for 2009 only. Changes to specifications and associated prices for Irregular Oversize Lettermail were not introduced. Some Lettermail prices differ from what was included in customer communications in July. Refer to revised Lettermail Price Sheet for details.

DOES THIS MEAN that we don't have to worry about BENDABLE vs. NON-BENDABLE at this time?

I am asking because while in Ottawa I took the time to ask several postal employees and no one knew how it was going to be done. I also asked here at home...two different post offices and same answer, "We don't know."

Susan
momoftwingles2

[coxengines]

Susan,

I think they might have dropped the "bendable" thing. Yesterday, 10 minutes before they closed for the year, I inquired at my local post office and they said had neither received the templates nor were they going to worry about it; just accepting mail as usual.

Happy New Year!
Xena

[westernstargifts]

Nobody has heard of the bendable policy at our Post Office or postal outlet either.

One of them did mention the other day that there will be changes to Light Packet and bubble envelopes shipped as lettermail in Canada. She didn't know what they would be. I am sure we will find out soon enough.

Happy New Year to all!!

Judy

[recped]

This certainly appears to be the case. It would be interesting to know what prompted the (lack of) change and of course how permanent it will be. You may recall that the Light Packet was proposed, withdrawn and then re-introduced.

I wonder if this will be similar or did some heavy hitters weigh in on the case.

[westernstargifts]

http://www.canadapost.ca/offerings/lettermail/can/rates-e.asp

Canada Post still has this on their website.

[recped]

But they also have this "revised" price list.

http://www.canadapost.ca/rates/pdf/LM_09-e.pdf

[faerywishes]

I wouldn't be surprised if CP finally made Light Packet a Light Packet, and not a small air packet.

Colleen

[momoftwingles2]

Incentive mail....is that advertising mail?

Susan
momoftwingles2

[recped]

http://www.canadapost.ca/business/offerings/incentive_lettermail/int/default-e.asp

For large volume mailers, requires pre-sorting.

[momoftwingles2]

That's what I was thinking regarding incentive mail so for sure those new rates don't affect me.

I'm glad to see that the changes are minimal as it will make shipping adjustments a breeze this go round...even if only for a short time!

Thanks all!
Susan
momoftwingles2

[faerywishes]

I really wish CP would get the correct info to all their Postal Offices.

I spoke to a supervisor yesterday and asked if I put the "do not bend sticker" on it will I have to pay the new pricing. She stated yes, more than likely. Anything that doesn't go through the sorter and won't bend properly through that thing (that no PO seems to have received yet) will have the new pricing.

She also said she wasn't sure if that pricing is going to go into effect on Jan 12/09 as it seems no PO has received these tools when they have to manually sort.

I don't think any Post Office person has a clue as to how this is going to work.

Colleen

[momoftwingles2]

Hi Colleen,

I see you changed your ID again! It caught me off guard!

I'm thinking, as has been mentioned, that for now we don't have to worry about bending or not bending as they don't have the pricing even available on the Canada Post website.

None of the post offices I went into and/or called had stickers either.

Hopefully this new category will never come to be!

Susan
momoftwingles2

[ampurtle]

momo...


Any relation to "momoftwogirlies"

[ampurtle]

It's a big corporation, the people at the bottom are always last to know...

[momoftwingles2]

Hi ampurtle,

Nope...no relation to momoftwogirlies!

Susan
momoftwingles2 (means mom of twins and singles!)

[faerywishes]

Hiya Susan

Yes I changed my name, not sure if I like it though. I'll try it for a month. I was reading some of my emails from when I was getting support from Ebay when I first became a seller and many of them thought I should change my name to reflect Scrapbooking more.

I'm glad to hear about CP removing the info from the website, for now at least.

Colleen

[faerywishes]

OMG!!

I just realized that I didn't need to change my user ID only my store name. I wonder if I'll ever get things straight in here. Well I guess I am stuck with it for 29 more days. Then I'm going back to faerywishes.

Oh well, you live you learn...sometimes it just takes me longer 🙂

Colleen

[craftycatsattic]

Hmmmm very interesting. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! I was wondering when I was going to make revisions to the Canadian shipping for the handful of my listings that were affected. I go to a couple of post offices, my favorite being a franchise within my local pharmacy. I am quite chummy with the owner and out of all the post offices I've gone to she is up on things more than any other and she hasn't heard anything or seen anything and like many have said here doesn't even care to know until she's officially told about the changes.

I am not making any changes to my shipping despite the increases. For 2 years now I've been undercharging to meet a "price point"...say charging $3.95 when I should be charging $4.40 but when the dollar took a drastic drop I didn't make any changes. At that point the Christmas shopping season was in full swing and we had already spent weeks and weeks revising listings once and again and again to meet all the policy changes and new policy changes on top of the old policy changes! Anyhow now I'm getting pretty much what it costs me and can absorb the small increments and keep my price points....yeah! When that Canadian dollar goes up again though I will have to take another look at it.

[craftycatsattic]

Lets also not forget that Canada Post introduced the proposed change arguing that they were no longer covering their expensese with the increasing gasoline prices. Perhaps the drastic decline in gasoline may have been a factor?

[craftycatsattic]

Hmmmm...is it just me or does it appear as though there are no changes to small and light packets? Is it possible they usually introduce changes to these services mid year?