[HCDX] upcoming Canada Post hike

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In case there's anyone out there who still sends snail-mail reception
reports with return postage:


Stamps to cost half a dollar

Canadian Press

Ottawa - The price to mail a letter in Canada will rise to 50 cents in
January, the post office says.

The new rate is effective Jan. 17, 2005, and is up from the current 49 cents
levied in January this year. The 2.04-per-cent increase is derived from a
formula using Statistics Canada's consumer price index.

The basic letter stamp will carry a picture of the flag or the Queen.

The cost to send letters, cards and postcards to the United States will rise
to 85 cents from 80 cents in January, and to $1.45 from $1.40 for other
foreign destinations.

Postage stamps are also subject to the 7-per-cent goods-and-services tax.

International rates are subject to Universal Postal Union rules, a Canada
Post spokesman said Monday.
Countries pay each other for the cost of handling each other's mail, an
expense known as terminal dues.


73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON

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