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Wake up Canada Post!
You want them to raise the price of Small Packets?
Canada Post does not deliver to Australia, never has, does not now, never will. The Australian Post Office does. Your question should be directed to them.
My parcels to Australia. I drop them off in a bin to go to the sorting plant in town, down to Mississauga, then out of the country the next morning. How much does that cost?
My parcel to Whale Slap NL, dropped off, has to be scanned, goes to the in town plant, sorted to the next plant, transferred a couple times, driven across the country, put on a ferry, driven to another sorting plant, sorted, sent to another PO, sorted to the mail carrier, mail carrier delivers, takes about a week. How much does that cost?
@toff3 wrote:There seems to be some misunderstanding of the OP's post, particularly on the part of Recped and Poco.
Tom
Tom, your sarcasm detector needs adjustments!
Seriously though, if Canada Post keeps raising the price of Small Packets eventually the OP's rant will be moot as it will no longer be true.
It's interesting that the exact same situation (to a lesser degree) was true in the USA as well. That is until they raised their International rates for First Class packages thereby eliminating that particular price anomaly.
"but the rates for service via Canada Post small packages are set here in Canada."
That is quite true.
With the exception of domestic lettermail where the rates are legislated by the federal government, Canada Post is free to charge for parcel delivery whatever the competition will allow. For example, if Canada Post charges $15 to deliver a small parcel from somewhere in Ontario to NL or BC, that is because nobody else will do it cheaper. That is the reality of our small marketplace in such huge territory. It cannot be compared to any other country in the world where population density is much greater.
Once competitors (UPS, Canpar, Fed-Ex, DHL, buslines, railwoads, trucking outfits, whoever) start offering competing services at lower prices, Canada Post will lower its rates to meet competition. In the meantime.... they take whatever they can get, wherever they can get it.
I should have added that Canada Post is not offering a public service when accepting parcels for delivery. It is a commercial operation, competing with others, in expectations of making a profit. Canada Post has a mandate not to lose money.
Canadian taxpayers will not allow their tax money to go to Canada Post to allow the Crown Corporation to compete with commercial carriers. That would not make any sense.
CP does not set the rates for Australia. I have already explained why rates can and will be cheaper. You simply do not like the answer. If you do not like the answer, do not ask the question.
Canada Population 35 million 9,984,000 sq Ks
California population 38 million 424,000 sq Ks
Same rough population in 4% of the space. Hum? I wonder how much easier it is to move goods around in 1/25th of teh space.
Europe area 10,100,000 sq Ks
Europe population 739 million
Same area and 21 times the population. I wonder how much easier it is to move goods around with a densely packed population.
Economies of scale. OP wants California prices with 4% of the resources. OP wants European prices with 4.7% of the resources.
Stamp Lady, I totally forgot about the international treaty. The treaty sets out who can do what, sizes, weights, all that complicated, ya know, treaty stuff.
