Tag: Canada

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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FedEx unveils new Canadian headquarters, service center

Posted by | Jun 15, 2007 | |

FedEx Freight Canada, unveiled on Thursday its Canadian headquarters as part of an aggressive growth plan.

FedEx Freight Canada also officially unveiled a 48-dock Toronto service center.

“This new facility establishes a strong base from which FedEx Freight Canada will quickly expand its operations across the country,” FedEx Freight Canada vice president and general manager Grant Crawford said in a statement. “From British Columbia to Nova Scotia, we offer (less-than-truckload) customers the service excellence and reliability they’ve come to expect from the FedEx brand.”

FedEx Freight Canada began operations in February offering less-than-truckload and cargo services both within Canada and across the U.S. border.

The subsidiary of the Memphis-based shipping and package service was created from an acquisition last year of Watkins Motor Lines and Watkins Canada Express.

FedEx Freight Canada already operates pickup and delivery services in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary, Montreal and London, Ontario, with plans to add service centers in Ottawa, Cambridge, Edmonton, Halifax and Quebec City.

FedEx Freight Canada also plans to expand facilities in Winnipeg and Calgary.

The corporation already operated a Canadian small package delivery service not related with its freight division.

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FedEx Freight Canada Unveils New Facility in Toronto

Posted by | Jun 14, 2007 | |

FedEx Freight Canada, the newly-formed subsidiary of FedEx Freight that provides seamless intra-Canada and transborder less-than-truckload (LTL) service, today officially unveiled its new combined national headquarters and 48 dock-door service center, located on Wilson Avenue in Toronto.

Formerly Watkins Canada Express, FedEx Freight Canada officially began operations in February. The company provides all-points coverage to more than 7,000 cities in 10 of the country’s provinces, as well as transborder service for shipments to and from the U.S. and other locations.

In addition to Toronto, FedEx Freight Canada offers reliable pickup and delivery service through a growing network of facilities that includes Vancouver, Winnipeg, London, Calgary and Montreal.

FedEx Freight Canada also plans to add service centers in Ottawa, Cambridge, Edmonton, Halifax, and Quebec City, and open expanded facilities in Winnipeg and Calgary during the next several months.

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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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