Canadians enjoy one of the lowest basic domestic letter prices among comparable industrialized countries. Lettermail prices are based on size and weight.

Lettermail Prices Effective January 14, 2008
	PRICE PER ITEM
BASIC LETTERMAIL	Up to 30g	Over 30g up to 50g
Standard (S/L)	$0.52	$0.96
OTHER LETTERMAIL	Up to 100g	Over 100g up to 200g	Over 200g up to 500g
Non-standard and Oversize (O/S)	$1.15	$1.92	$2.65
Processing Fee	Price per manual Order (Statement of Mailing)
	$5.00

In response to rising cost pressures, Canada Post is proposing an amendment to the Letter Mail Regulations to establish the rates of postage for domestic Lettermail for the next three years.  The domestic Lettermail rate would increase from 52 to 54 cents in January 2009.  The rate would rise by two cents per year in the following two years.

Canada Post has also proposed to revise the specifications for Oversize Lettermail, and to create new specifications and pricing for irregular Oversize items. Oversize Lettermail will be split into two categories, based on the item’s thickness and flexibility. Canada Post is working with customers to mitigate the impact of these changes by giving them as much notice as possible and suggesting alternate packaging and shipping practices. 

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Surcharge Details
Based on customer feedback, Canada Post has developed a new framework for the application of mailing anomaly surcharges that is fair and consistently applied across the Direct Marketing and Transaction Mail services.This document provides details in three sections:

This document provides details in three sections:

• an overview
• changes to adjustments as they relate to the machine read rate acceptance level for incentive rate services where machine processing applies
• details of the new surcharges price structure