Card shipping in Canada may Become a Little More Painful in 2009...

[cards-gotta-go]

Kind of a broad brushstroke of a generalism here. The post offices around my area, especially my local one, is extremely diligent and takes the time to ensure the packages are the correct weight & have the correct postage. I wouldn't be so quick to call all CP workers as lazy. Granted, some are... but not all.

Very true Bruce, but my local CP rep is, well, perpretually disgruntled.

 

[vegaspuck]

'Bout time you caught up. Everything thicker than a standard envelope was deemed a package in the US earlier this year....raised shipping prices significantly when you ship a lot.

 

[sharks4life12]

any non white envelope type (larger than a standard envelope) that is under 3/4" thick is considered large envelope,anything over 3/4" thick goes as parcel.

 

[JoeyStorm]

The post office I go to is pretty lenient, they just weigh one of them and assume the rest are the same. They know I only ship sports cards in those.

 

[devlin]

Privatized mailing

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some of my stuff to the north takes forever to get there.

 

[xelloss1012]

I found a problem that most do not do for their packages. This is making sure the bottom inch to inch-and-a-half of the mailer is left blank for codes that the mail service might use. This I find will slow down processing since manual-processing has to done.

Also, CanadaPost considers anything that cannot fit through a 20mm slot without ease a likely parcel.