January 2019 Canada Post price increases

[ypdc_dennis]

The page with links:

https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/kb/details.page?article=service_and_price_ch

Big change will be increasing the weight limit from 1kg to 2kg for USA Small Packet and Tracked Packet. This will bring them in line with the International weight limits.

2019 stamps rates for lettermail/letterpost:

Canada stamp rates (metered is cheaper)

[forester_studios]

Checked again and noticed it did download the 2018 rates that expired Sunday. Hope they put one up for this year soon. Thanks anyway.

[femmefan1946]

@luv4orphans

Even with calculated I am constantly reimbursing buyers at the other end cause they overpaid sometimes up to $8. Sometimes I am short but most times they have overpaid.

Are you using metric?

Remember that Calculated Shipping will tell your customer the Post Office price for the service and measurements you entered, but you will be given a discount - usually 5% these days as a Small Business Solutions member.

Postage is not your only shipping cost. Bubblewrap ain't free. And even if your recycle boxes, you spent time (which is money) on finding and cleaning them.

[femmefan1946]

@luv4orphans

SfSB is Solutions for Small Business.

You have to have a SfSB (formerly Venture One) just to use the Paypal, Shippo, and SnapShip online labels available to us.

All of which give you the same 5% discount and all of which feed into your SfSB account so you might eventually get to a better discount level even if you use all three services randomly.

If you were going directly to Canada Post, you would be paying counter rates, and as mentioned, it is the counter rate your customer sees.

And again, most sellers use the discount to cover their handling costs, like taxes, boxes, bubblewrap, printer ink, and self-insurance.

[luv4orphans]

Yes I have a Venture one card or SfSB I guess they call it now. Not sure if this is where a $6. discount would come in though.
I get it about the discount to pay for your handling charges and supplies etc. but ebay was always saying we get a discount so we can pass that on to our buyers. So I did but add it in the cost of the item itself but that doesn't always pan out when its a BIN with Best Offer.

[luv4orphans]

Yes I am using the metric system.
And yes I realize bubble wrap etc. is not free. I answered that one in my last reply by saying I would mark up the price of the item a couple of dollars but it doesn't always work out when its BIN and you accept your best offer on it. I should have been paying more attention to what was being said on here a long time ago. Strapped for time but it might pay off in the long run to read these threads.

[ypdc_dennis]

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@forester_studios wrote:
Links do not work. I just get a blank white page.

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Can your browser handle PDF files?  The blank page is a temporary landing spot before Canada Post tosses a PDF at your browser.

[ypdc_dennis]

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@luv4orphans wrote:

What's SfSB.

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Canada Post's Solutions for Small Business membership (used to be called Venture One).

[ypdc_dennis]

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@femmefan1946 wrote:

SfSB is Solutions for Small Business.

You have to have a SfSB (formerly Venture One) just to use the Paypal, Shippo, and SnapShip online labels available to us.

All of which give you the same 5% discount and all of which feed into your SfSB account so you might eventually get to a better discount level even if you use all three services randomly.

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The discount is no longer 5% on shipping. If I remember correctly it changed back in 2017 when Canada Post revamped SfSB to make it more competitive.

Yes, signing into your account at Canada Post will show the last 3 months of shipments regardless of where you bought the label (Shippo/PayPal/SnapShip/ESTOnline).  And the 12 month total determines the discount level (updated every couple of months).

Level 1 - up to $2500 (taxes excluded)

Level 2 - $2500-5000

Level 3 - $5000-$7500

Level 4 - over $7500

When you do that much volume, then it's time to think about a Commercial Account with Canada Post.

[forester_studios]

I realized shortly after I posted that it did indeed download a pdf file. I followed up with another post #61. Unfortunately the pdf is for 2018, so of no use now.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

The sad thing regarding those assorted levels, how many sellers will be affected because of the drop in business due to mail a mail strike and will possibly lose their discounts because of it due to no fault of their own. Which carries over to any discounts they qualified in eBay.

-Lotz

[ypdc_dennis]

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@luv4orphans wrote:

... I doubt I am getting a huge discount from Canada Post. I don't sell enough to qualify for any big discounts they might offer.

$19.64 is the total amount I had to pay on that package taxes included. It happens all the time and nobody can figure this out, why they get a different amount at the other end.

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I plugged your numbers into the post office calculator again and managed to get something close to the amount you paid when the dimensional adjustment is removed.  In other words, the parcel was charged based only on the actual weight. 

So in this example,  whoever sold you the label was charging less than what Canada Post wanted.

I don't see this type of issue since I try to keep my boxes sized so I normally don't have a dimensional/volumetric weight price difference from the price based on actual weight.

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[pjcdn2005]

As far as I know It has never been a flat 5% discount for online shipping. The 5% came into play when you presented your card at the counter and purchased your label there. I have no idea if it is still that way at the counter. 

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

Is anyone else getting the following message when they attempt to add US Tracked service for a parcel that is between 1 & 2 KG. It updates no problem to add US Small Packet Air.

Package weight is over the weight limit for service Canada Post Tracked Packet - USA. The maximum weight is 1 kg.

-Lotz

[momcqueen]

I thought this was mentioned earlier this week in either this thread or another: it was reported to Happy and she’s got a project manager looking into it, I think she said.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

Ok thanks. Wasn't sure if it was still a work in progress or not and what, if any additional issues were in play?

-Lotz

[forester_studios]

You would hope billion dollar companies like CP and ebay would have everything ready to update seamlessly when the changes came in on Monday, sadly not the case. Sure hope someone realizes what a big problem this could be for sellers and gets it fixed ASAP.

[forester_studios]

On another topic I mentioned previously in this thread. Does anyone know if CP has put up their handy one page rate guides for 2019 yet?

[momcqueen]

Also! The current CPC services comparisons sheet tells customers that International Air Parcel isn’t a Tracked Service. So that’s incorrect; unless they removed it. There was a separate thread about that. What the heck?

[ypdc_dennis]

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@momcqueen wrote:
Also! The current CPC services comparisons sheet tells customers that International Air Parcel isn’t a Tracked Service. So that’s incorrect; unless they removed it. ...

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It is a partially tracked service according to the 2019 Parcel Services Guide. Tracked inside Canada until departing for the destination country, with next event (as I read it) being delivery.

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[momcqueen]

Thank you for the clarification. Delivery is the most important aspect of tracking (more so than even acceptance scans) so I wonder as to the reason Canada Post thinks it’s important to *warn* us about ‘partial’ tracking that shows delivered when it doesn’t provide adequate easy-to-understand advance notice (in my opinion) on which services are totally untracked versus which are tracked. (And who cares about partially tracked at all if it still says delivered?) That ‘tracked or not tracked’ detail should be more prominently displayed than the fuel surcharges on services. Like right next to delivery estimates and price. Whether or not a service is tracked is as important as its price and should be advertised that way, not left to find in a web of links buried somewhere deep in the darkest corner of the website on table 10.5 of page 26B. I’m exaggerating but you may be only one of about three people I know who can find anything on the CPC website.

Thank you for sharing what you found.