Canada Post is subject to the Official Languages Act. Therefore the postal indicia must be bilingual. For any mailing with a return address in the province of Québec, the main information contained within the body of the indicia must appear in French first. In all other provinces, English must appear first.

Availability of Postal Indicia to Customers

All generic postal indicia are readily available to Customers.

Click here (PDF) for postal indicia requirements. Postal indicia artwork should be downloaded and provided to a professional printer.

The artwork provided for download is in EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) format for use with a commercial graphics package such as Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, etc.

Important: If you are using the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, you may experience difficulties in downloading the postal indicia artwork. The extension may show as ".ps" instead of ".eps". To ensure the downloaded file opens correctly, rename it to include the extension ".eps".

ITEM		TITLE / ARTWORK
		Addressed Admail Download Artwork (EPS)
		Addressed Admail Return Postage Guaranteed Download Artwork (EPS)
		Addressed Admail - Address Correction Download Artwork (EPS)
		Dimensional Addressed Admail Download Artwork (EPS)
		Catalogue Mail Download Artwork (EPS)
		Catalogue Mail Return Postage Guaranteed Download Artwork (EPS)
		Catalogue Mail - Address Correction Download Artwork (EPS)
		Generic Indicia Download Artwork (EPS)
		Lettermail Download Artwork (EPS)
		Letter-post Air-Mail Download Artwork (EPS)
		Letter-post Non-priority Download Artwork (EPS)
		Publications Mail Download Artwork (EPS)
		Perforated edge design Download Artwork (EPS)