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carly@ebay.com · ‎08-04-2005

Please join us on Thursday, August 25, from 1-2 PM ET for a workshop with Canada Post. Kim from Canada Post will be here to answer all of your questions about Canada Post letterpost service and what the regulations are for using this type of service.

If you are not able to attend, you can leave your questions here in advance of the workshop and they will be answered during the workshop, and you can come back in and check the answers.

Hope you can join us!

Carly

canadapost2 · ‎08-25-2005

Q.There was also a question about whether comic books or a deck of cards would be considered letterpost?

A. Yes. Providing the items fall within the maximum acceptable dimensions for letterpost which are:

380mm X 270 mm X 20mm and the weight does not exceed 500 grams.

laplaya29 · ‎08-25-2005

What is acceptable content for Other Letter-Post going to the USA ?
Thanks.
Bill.

recped · ‎08-25-2005

what's the difference (to the mail system) between a deck of cards and a compact disc?

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phoquebooks · ‎08-25-2005

Just answer 1 clearly. After being told for a decade that "books and magazines ARE documents" and that "documents are acceptable for over-sized lettermail AND letterPost" is this being reversed on Sept. 19 or is it still ok to send those [if they fit the size & weight ]????

ferret-mom · ‎08-25-2005

In that case, if I have a magazine or instruction book that weighs less than 500 grams, and fits through the template, I will still be able to mail it in an envelope as letter-post?

canadapost2 · ‎08-25-2005

On the questions asking about the characteristics of paper.

Sewing patterns would be considered paper material. A CD ROM would not.

Acceptable itmes could be something as simple as a collector card or perhaps a book (composed of paper pages and a cardboard jacket). Items composed of bristol board or various grades/thicknesses of paper are acceptable. Examples include tickets, photographs, posters. A rather extreme example of an item that is unacceptable as Letter-post would be a flat figure made from popsicle sticks. Even though paper is a derivative of wood, such an item would be classified as a good.

- Kim

dm5519 · ‎08-25-2005

Hi Kim,
Do sports cards qualify for letter post? Thanks!

cottoncandycollectibles · ‎08-25-2005

Can someone please tell me how to join this workshop? I don't see a link.
Thanks.

recped · ‎08-25-2005

such an item would be classified as a good.

Where in the regulations are "goods" excluded from Letter-post?

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craftmaster63 · ‎08-25-2005

Kim - How does Canada Post propose we compete with US sellers who are able to send small items via lettermail? What cost 83 cents US to send will cost us a minimum $3.90. Your thoughts?

balmoralnu1 · ‎08-25-2005

Parcel rates within Canada have one price for all parcels of 100 gr to 1000 gr, but to other countries there are intermediate weight categories - 250, 500 etc. As a result a small package of say 150 gr to a Cdn address costs far more than the same package to almost anywhere in the world. Why does it cost almost double to go from Vancouver to Niagara Falls, Ont as to Niagara Falls NY? We need to be given the same price & weight options as other countries. Your current rates make our Cdn customers second class compared to out of the country.
L.Balmer

ciderantiques · ‎08-25-2005

Cootoncandy: just keep clicking refresh and type a message when you want to

ferret-mom · ‎08-25-2005

Speaking of figures, what about your "Tickelope" product, made mostly of foam? Will I still be able to send one of those to the US, at the letter-post rate?

tobyshitzu · ‎08-25-2005

Moya greene sent us email saying saying books or any good (cards?) cannot go letterpost!!!

Are you saying CPS president can't even understand the rule?

sffan2001 · ‎08-25-2005

Kim:

If you want to get technical, a company in Japan is now making CD-ROMS with a paper core, surrounded by a plastic laminate.

So is it paper or is it plastic?

ademski · ‎08-25-2005

Why is it that we can sent CD's using letter-post to anywhere in Canada but cannot send them to USA or international?

tobyshitzu · ‎08-25-2005

"Acceptable itmes could be something as simple as a collector card or perhaps a book (composed of paper pages and a cardboard jacket)"

Canada post president says NO!"

canadapost2 · ‎08-25-2005

There was also a lot of comments regarding at which point does any item become a good as opposed to letterpost?

A. This is largely driven by content and size/weight requirements. As an example, an expensive unframed photograph taken be a famous photographer could quality as letterpost. Even though the item has an associated value, the item is made entirely of paper.

As soon as the photograph is framed ,it becomes a good and must be shipped via a USA distribution service.