TUESDAY
MAY 2, 2006
GST CUTS: BUSINESSES CALL FOR TIME
NAMMU and many business organizations are calling on the federal
government to give businesses time to adjust to the proposed GST
cut. Ranging from one to three months, these adjustment timing
requests will enable the necessary updates to cash registers,
pre-authorized and other payment transactions, price lists and
business transaction materials. According to some reports, some
small and mid-size businesses have also requested compensation
for any implementation costs.
QUEBEC CITY MUNICIPAL AMALGAMATIONS
Since 2003, 55 Quebec municipalities have merged into 15, five
amalgamations will take place in 2006, with an estimated 30-40
more to come. Driven by municipalities, there will be an
estimated >120,000 addresses impacted. As part of the Toronto
Chapter, X-TREME ADDRESS MANAGEMENT executive briefing, Zelko
Odorcic and Joel Brown, Nova Marketing Group Inc., presented
several impact examples – most with both civic address and town
name changes. Canada Post is supporting the address management
requirements for business, and has developed realistic tools to
deal with the changes. Gaston Bouchard, Address Management,
alerted participants to the particular challenges involved with
these amalgamations, and reminded interested mailers of the
Canada Post Municipal Amalgamation Data Product. This product
offers mailers the new addresses for municipalities that are
amalgamating, and the data cross references the old and new
addresses.
Click here to access product details:
JOIN NAMMU AT MAGS U
Visit NAMMU at booth 113 in the Masthead Tradeshow, The Old
Mill, June 6-8. This year, the NAMMU Publications Mail Council,
will provide mail management and production expertise as part of
a special clinic which includes experts in all facets of
publishing. NAMMU will once again display members’materials of
interest to the publishing community, and invites interested
members to advise of interest no later than May 22. Contact
executive@nammu.org
2006 NAMMU’s
Are you ready to take the NAMMU challenge? The 2006 NAMMU’s, the
awards that reward excellence in the dominant use of the mail
channel, will take place November 1 at the Design Exchange. The
awards event planning committee has already met to review the
2005 feedback, and is now putting the finishing touches on this
year’s campaign plans. The NAMMU Mail Marketing Council will
initiate several activities to bring even more attention to the
growing interest and prestige of these awards within the agency
and mail marketing communities. Event organizers appreciate
volunteers: contact
executive@nammu.org Sponsorship opportunities:
sponsorship@nammu.org Get ready to take the challenge!
Consolidated
net income increased $52 million over 2004, cost of operations
increased $268 million. On a consolidated basis, Canada Post
Corporation processed 11.1 billion pieces in 2005 and met the
corporate on-time service performance target of 96 per cent for
the delivery of Lettermail.
To read the detailed annual report:
click here
Interested parties are asked to supply questions, comments to:
executive@nammu.org
