Tag: Canada Post

Canada Post offers business services thought SmartmovesTM product

Posted by | Jul 5, 2007 | |

When Canadians move, they are more likely than at other times to open their pocketbooks to redecorate, refurbish or simply buy a new vehicle—or all three says a recent survey conducted for Canada Post’s smartmovesTM service.

The purpose of the smartmovesTM program is to connect businesses with Canadian consumers who are moving. Businesses and movers can communicate via the Internet and a magazine mailed to new movers. Canada Post sells advertising in these channels to provide businesses with an opportunity to reach new movers while strictly maintaining their anonymity. New movers receive useful information and tips in the smartmovesTM magazine as well as great offers on products and services they may need when moving. Canada Post does not release mover data to businesses at any time.

Canada Post’s multichannel smartmovesTM program provides unrivalled access to one of the most lucrative and motivated segments of buyers in the country: people who are moving. In 2006, more than 1.1 million households and businesses notified Canada Post of a change of address. The smartmovesTM program provides a communication channel for businesses and organizations to connect with this audience using banner ads on the www.smartmoves.ca web portal, consumer directed data updates, page advertising in the smartmovesTM magazine, “A Guide to Your New Home”, or by providing outserts that are delivered with the smartmovesTM magazine.

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Canada Post: No basic domestic letter rate increase in 2008

Posted by | Jun 29, 2007 | |

Canada Post Corporation announced that there will be no increase in the domestic basic letter rate in 2008.

Under the price-cap formula approved by the federal government in 2000, basic letter rate increases, when warranted, will not exceed 66.67 per cent of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index from May prior to the last increase to May of the current year. Increases will be implemented no more than once a year, in January, and announced no later than July 1 in the year before the increase goes into effect in the Canada Gazette Part I.

The Consumer Price Index from May 2006 to May 2007 shows an increase of 2.2 per cent negating an increase in the domestic letter rate next year. Price changes for the remaining regulated domestic Lettermail and USA and International letter-post products continue to be market-based and proposed increases are scheduled for implementation on January 14, 2008.

Canada Post announced in the Canada Gazette Part 1 the following proposed rate adjustments.

– $0.03 increase to $0.96 for letters, cards and postcards up to 30g destined for the USA;
– $0.05 increase to $1.60 for letters, cards and postcards up to 30g to foreign destinations.

Canada Post’s proposed rates for a 30-gram letter to the USA and other International destinations compare favorably to the rates other countries charge to send a similar piece of mail to Canada. It costs $2.64 from Great Britain, $3.05 from Germany and $1.80 from Australia to send a 30-gram letter to Canada. The cost to mail a 30-gram letter from the USA to Canada is $1.15.

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On-the-move Canadians can change their address online at smartmoves

Posted by | Jun 13, 2007 | |

Canada Post handled more than 290,000 change of address requests for Quebec in 2005 and more than 302,000 in 2006.

With more than 116 million items a year redirected throughout Canada, Canada Post, through its change of address service, provides an affordable service that is among the most reliable.

It is well known that the months of June and July are a feverish period punctuated by many moves for people in Quebec. Between boxes, moving out, renovations, decorating and moving in, you want to make sure that your regular mail and even your occasional mail (financial statements, license renewals, memberships or subscriptions, annual reports and product recall notices) are delivered.

Before moving, the person can go into one of the Canadian Post outlets to fill out a Change of Address Notification.

The online change of address service is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Smartmoves TM program (www.smartmoves.ca) will provide an user-friendly checklist. Is is also possible to send virtual cards free to friends and family to notify them of the new address.

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Canada Post defeats NAFTA unfair competition challenge from UPS

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

Canada Post has defeated a NAFTA challenge from United Parcel Service of America Inc., that alleged the Crown corporation engaged in unfair competition, bringing an end to a seven year-old dispute between the two delivery companies.

UPS, the world’s largest package delivery firm, launched a claim for US$160 million against the Canadian government in April 2000 under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

UPS contended Canada Post has an unfair advantage because its services such as Express Post and Priority Courier draw on an infrastructure of sorting facilities, mailboxes and post offices that private companies must provide for themselves.

But Canada Post CEO Moya Greene told the company’s annual meeting Tuesday that the NAFTA tribunal hearing the challenge had dismissed it.

The company, which has been operating in Canada for more than 30 years, is still reviewing the decision, Kane said.

Officials with NAFTA, the International Trade Department and the two companies said copies of the decision weren’t yet publicly available.

Union officials representing Canada Post workers said the case represented the first time Ottawa was being pressured to withdraw from an established government program or service, and if it had succeeded, may have forced the company to get out of the courier business altogether.

Earlier at the Canada Post meeting, Greene said the company will likely raise postage rates for certain categories of mail such as parcel delivery.

A decision whether stamp rates will change for letter mail is expected by the end of the month.

The Crown corporation generated $7.3 billion in operating revenue last year, up 4.6 per cent from the previous year, and earned $119 million in net income, down 40 per cent from 2005.

With 72,000 staff, Canada Post is the country’s sixth largest employer. It delivers 40 million pieces of mail daily.

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Amazon.ca Teams with Canada Post to Deliver the Final Harry Potter Book to Customers' Doorsteps on July 21 for the Same Price as Express Shipping

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

Just as it has done for previous Harry Potter books, Amazon.ca today confirmed that it has teamed with Canada Post to deliver “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” to the doorsteps of excited fans across Canada on Saturday, July 21, the same day the book goes on sale to the public. Release-date delivery, which is the same price as Amazon.ca’s express shipping, is guaranteed to qualified addresses in Canada or the cost of the book will be refunded.

Offered at $22.50, a 50 percent discount, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” became Amazon.ca’s current No. 1 bestselling book the same day it became available for pre-order on February 1, 2007. Amazon.ca saw an 825 percent increase in first-day pre-orders of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” compared to the sixth book. The seventh and final book has been so popular with Amazon.ca customers that the online retailer sold more copies of it in the first 30 hours than the company did of the sixth book in the first 30 days of its pre-order period.

To place an order for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and to explore Amazon.ca’s entire selection of Harry Potter products – including books, DVDs, computer and video games, journals and stationery, and more – visit www.amazon.ca/harrypotter.

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