News_12042009HST:

As of July 1, 2010, Revenue Canada in conjunction with both British Columbia and the Province of Ontario will  be implementing the new HST. This is a harmonized tax of 13%.

Any customers that are currently registered with Revenue Canada for GST will now fall under the HST guidelines. Our current charge of GST at 5% that is totally refundable through your input tax credit, will now become 13% HST. This is still fully refundable.

Commercial imports will remain at 5% GST.

Any customers that pay PST at 8% will continue to be self assessed.

Address Accuracy changes proposed:

Canada Post is striving to improve deliverability. They have determined many issues regarding the current SERP software recognizing address blocks as acceptable, but nor including apartment #'s when apartment buildings are within the block.

The new SERP software, as of January 17, 2011 will recognize apartment addresses and will fail any addresses that do not include proper apartment identification. Based on this, this will affect your percentage qualification as of January, 2011.

Canada Post will be providing a 6 month clean up time and will not access a surcharge on failed accuracy because of apartments up until July 2011. As of July 2011, if apartment buildings are not properly addressed and your accuracy is below the required 95%, you will be assessed the standard surcharge for a poor accuracy level.

Canada Post rates for January 17, 2011:

Some of the Proposed Canada Post rates for January 2011 should be released by the end of July 2010. As soon as we have these available we will insure they are distributed to our customer base. These rates will include a new Admail Machinable pre-sort rate with the same rate breakdown as the current Letter Carrier rates. Date processing and sort will be required. 

We have attached the proposed Lettermail rates for January 17, 2011

USPS:

The US Postal service has announced a planned increase in First Class rates as of January 2, 2011. The basic rate is proposed to increase by $0.02/pc. for letters and post cards. As more information becomes available, we will keep you advised.

Thank you
John Hamilton
Frontier Distributing