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| From | Ralph Alfonso <ralph@nettwerk.com> |
| Subject | canada post greed |
| Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:20:04 -0700 |
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>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:58:55 -0400
>From: POPESMOKES <popesmokes@rogers.com>
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Canadian postal cash-grab
>Message-ID: <BF56DF5F.1420F%popesmokes@rogers.com>
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>As someone who runs a music mail-order company I was reeling from the recent
>news that the cost of mailing a single CD to the States was about to rocket
>from $1.70
it's $2.90 normally, $1.70 for inside Canada.
cheaper if you take the jewel case off.
>to $5.60 (and $3.40 to about $6 for international). This was to
>happen under a new rule that said that even though a CD could fit into a
>letter-sized bubble mailer, a "letter" could only contain paper documents
>and not CDs, DVDs, or anything that a burly postal worker couldn't fold four
>times.
>
>Apparently there was such a wave of protest that Canada Post decided to pull
>the whole thing.
Ebay Canada led the protest according my person at the post office.
The law now is as long as there is a "document" with the cd - it can
go for $2.90
it was a really crass cash-grab for no real reason. You would think
they'd be grateful
that companies like ebay have probably spiked postal usage upwards
100% probably.
i had a heart attack. Luckily i'm 20 mins from the border so i was
going to doing maili outs from
the US (which i may still do)...
>
>The price isn't changing. I almost cried when I heard this news yesterday.
>
>Luke
>
>P.S. Apologies if someone's already addressed this...I get the digest....
>
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