Unless I am mistaken, Nenad forgot to add the ridiculous Canadian
Gouge and Screw Tax (GST) to the list of rates he quoted. While the
increase may well be to $1.55 for overseas standard letter rate,
$0.93 for the US and $0.52 for domestic letters, in fact:
As of Jan.17, 2007, Canadians living west of the New Brunswick border
will add 6% to the cost of the postage increase and it will be:
Overseas: Cdn$1.64
US: Cdn$0.99
Domestic: Cdn$0.55
HOWEVER
Canadians living in eastern provinces will pay an additional
Horrifically Stupid Tax (HST), (i.e. an extra 8% to the GST) for a total of:
Overseas: Cdn$1.77
US: Cdn $1.06
Domestic: Cdn$0.59
I am unable to verify this rate increase on the Canada Post web site
but have seen at least one reference to the planned increase from a
fairly reliable source.
Gosh, I hope no more new DXCC entities are invented.
73
Al, VE1AL
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Hi All,
We just finished off discussion on VE postal rates
versus 1$ US, when I checked the postal rate increase
planned for 2007. Here it comes:
Overseas from $1.49 on Jan.15 2007 goes to $1.55
US from $0.89 " to $0.93
Domestic from $0.51 " to $0.52
All prices in CDN Dollars.
At the same time other services will go up, which
will be another hit to QSL Bureau budget.
73 Nenad VE3EXY
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