posted on November 22, 2000 09:12:50 AM
I just asked at the post office. Rates are expected to change for letters and small packets (I didn't ask about parcels), domestic and international.
As has been my experience in the past 10 years when making this sort of inquiry, the post office clerks don't know for sure what all the new rates will be or can't even confirm for sure that the rates will change on Jan. 1 - just that they expect it.
The clerk I spoke to did quote some of the new rates but, sorry, I've forgotten (my focus was on 200 gram weight mail which she didn't know about).
Based on my past experience (since 1991), the post office clerks probably won't be able to confirm the Jan. 1 date until Dec. 31 and there probably won't be any pamphlets available listing the new rates until the second week of January.
posted on November 22, 2000 11:23:44 AM
Apparently so!
Here's an interestingly aside though, I just mailed a parcel from New Brunswick to Ontario for about $7.00 using Canada Post. I figured I would call UPS Canada for a rate. Forget it! Their rate was about $15. And for a parcel here within New Brunswick, Canada Post was about $4.50 and UPS Canada was again, close to $15.
I never ever thought that the price difference would be so great!
Anyway, I'm not looking forward to a price hike, but it will still be better than UPS, for small parcels at least...
Jozi
