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From: mart@csri.toronto.edu (Mart Molle)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Unix Review Subscriptions
Summary: Canada Post != U.S. Postal Service
Message-ID: <8905121452.AA10982@genie.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 12 May 89 14:52:37 GMT
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Canada Post charges [much] higher rates for book rate / bulk delivery
of magazines.  Ever notice how you need more postage to mail a letter
to the U.S.?  Well, it works the same in the other direction too.

The difference is quite substantial in the case of magazines
and so forth, because Canada Post does not have a comparable rate
to the one all the publishers use in the U.S.  In particular, mailings
*within* the U.S. are just thrown [unwrapped] into the mail, with a
gummy address label on the cover and a bulk postage permit number
printed onto the cover somewhere.  The same magazine mailed to a Canadian
address is stuffed into an envelope (or at least a paper sleeve) that
has real postage on it.  This obviously costs them more, and they'll
happily pass on the [negative] savings to us! :-)

Mart L. Molle
Computer Systems Research Institute
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
(416)978-4928