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Canada Post unveils its first Braille stamp
Canada Post is issuing its first ever Braille stamp featuring guide dogs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Canada’s oldest association for the blind, it said Wednesday.
Some 3.5 million copies of the domestic 52-cent stamp have been printed with Braille embossing and larger-than-usual typeface for the vision-impaired, and featuring a yellow Labrador retriever, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Montreal Association for the Blind.
“We provide vital communication links to all Canadian households and to offer a Braille stamp reinforces our commitment to meet the needs of all Canadians,” said Bob Waite, a Canada Post senior vice-president.
The first Braille embossed stamp in the world was produced by Brazil in 1974 to commemorate the Fifth World Council for the Welfare for the Blind in Sao Paulo.
Almost a dozen countries have also since printed Braille stamps, however most were said to be symbolic because the light paper used to make the stamps did not typically hold the raised Braille for very long before being flattened.
New Payshop international top-up service
Taking into account the high number of spanish visitors in Portugal, Payshop has extended its pay –as –you-go mobile phone service to other phone networks as Movistar, Orange, Yoigo, Lebara or Happy Móvil. from now , Spanish visitors can top up their cell phones with 5 euros up to 150 euros.
Read MoreFrance to allow post office to sell insurance
France is set to authorise post office operator La Poste to sell property insurance through its banking subsidiary, Banque Postale, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday.
“I am authorising the post office to set up insurance mechanisms, insurance services which will allow all of us to insure our car or our house with the post office,” she told France 3 television in an interview.
The authorisation comes as the government prepares to end the monopoly held by the post office and savings banks on so-called Livret A accounts, one of France’s most popular savings products.
Read MoreCanada Post Manages Thirteenth Consecutive Year of Profitability
In its 2007 Annual Report, Canada Post Corporation reported its thirteenth consecutive year of profit for its Group of Companies. The Corporation recorded a consolidated net income of CAD54 million for the fiscal period ended December 31, 2007.
The return on equity for 2007 was 3.8 per cent. The corporation will make an annual dividend payment at the rate of 40 per cent of net income to its shareholder and is expecting to pay a dividend of approximately CAD22 million to the Government of Canada in 2008. The total dividends paid over the last five fiscal periods amount to CAD267 million.
Canada Post Corporation’s consolidated net income of CAD54 million was down 54.3 per cent from CAD119 million in 2006. Consolidated revenues reached CAD7.5 billion, an increase of 2.5 per cent trading day adjusted or CAD210 million over the comparative period a year ago, while the cost of operations increased by 3.2 per cent to CAD7,346 million. Canada’s population growth added some 200,000 new points of delivery during the year.
On a consolidated basis, Canada Post Corporation processed 11.8 billion pieces during the 12-month period, even as Transaction Mail volumes decreased by 1.6 pct year over year adjusted for trading days. In 2007, Canada Post met the corporate on-time service performance target of 96 per cent for the delivery of Lettermail. 1.00 USD = 1.00892 CAD
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