Canada Post changes - holiday money back guarantee, 2018 letter-post stamp rates

[ypdc_dennis]

November 20, 2017 to January 5, 2018
Delivery guarantee (or money refunded) will only apply when a parcel is 2 or more business days past the delivery date standard.
https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/assets/pdf/business/2017_peakSeasonServiceGuarantee_en.pdf

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January 15, 2018

No change to the letter-post rate for stamp use

Canada: https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/supportdocuments/advanced_lm_pricesheet-e.pdf

USA/Int'l: https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/supportdocuments/advanced_lp_pricesheet-e.pdf

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Parcel price changes have not yet been announced for 2018. 

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[cumos55]

Note the https content....  of Canada Post addresses..

[tobyshitzu]

amazed no increase in lettermail again

[femmefan1946]

Why?

Inflation is well under control- around 2% annually, although wages have not been keeping up with inflation.

The economy is in good shape and unemployment is as low as it has been in my memory (and I started working in 1960- on Woolworth's dinette counter).

And Canada Post continues to be profitable, primarily in the parcel sector.

Basically, if they are losing money on lettermail, they believe it is not worth the bad publicity for raising a rate that few people actually use.

https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/blogs/announcements/details.page?article=2017/08/24/canada_post_seg...

I wonder if a lot of the idea that Canada Post is a money-losing, strike-bound bureaucracy is a legacy belief among us oldies who remember the interesting days of Jean-Claude Parrot in the 1970s?

[tobyshitzu]

they continue to be "profitable"...only while they have a special exemption from making up the pension deficit that should have them paying ~billion a year toward.

Considering they previously tried to get approval to double the price of rigid lettermail with intention to soon force it into parcel category, its a miracle there is no price increase again

[ypdc_dennis]

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@tobysh*tu wrote:

amazed no increase in lettermail again

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Why? Canada Post does need approval from parliament for a stamp price increase.

I'm sure the execs at Canada Post would have been happy to have an increase (if only to make metered mail look like a better deal than stamps).

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[momcqueen]

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@ypdc_dennis wrote:

November 20, 2017 to January 5, 2018
Delivery guarantee (or money refunded) will only apply when a parcel is 2 or more business days past the delivery date standard.
https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/assets/pdf/business/2017_peakSeasonServiceGuarantee_en.pdf

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Last year when this was announced, I got all bent out of shape about it, expecting that nothing I sent within Canada would be delivered on time. It turned out to be a total non-issue for me. Thankfully.