THURSDAY JUNE 30, 2005
Dear NAMMU Member and Mailing Industry
Colleague:
Canada Post announced a one-cent
increase to the basic domestic letter rate as well as proposed
increases for USA and International letter rates, updates to UPU
information, in Part 1 of the Canada Gazette published June 28,
for implementation January 16, 2006.
Click here to view Canada Gazette, then click on Part 1,
Special Edition Vol 139, No. 7
Using the platitude of the
price-cap formula, the domestic announcement is actually a “fait
accompli” and this announcement perpetuates the myth of fairness
and transparency in rate action and cost control. There is a 60
day appeal process for International and USA rates and conditions,
and the appeal is directed to Canada Post. Despite the strong and
prolonged formal protests of the Corporation’s largest customers
and suppliers last year against this arbitrary process, nothing
apparently has changed. Even the Corporation’s own independent
workshops conducted late last year that fully supported the NAMMU
Phase 1 report, do not appear to have had any impact whatsoever.
Yet.
NAMMU is taking action again
this year to bring the inequities in the rate setting process
front and centre to be dealt with in a business-like manner. We
will follow the legal process for appeal, as well as continue to
forge the path through the political system to create awareness of
significant mailing industry concerns. This strategy respects the
need for the industry to work together with Canada Post, while
calling for the government assistance needed to examine a business
process which in effect, permits no appeal, and is detrimental to
all users of the postal system. We again need your help.
Please write or email the
Minister Responsible for Canada Post Corporation, the Regulatory
Affairs Officer, the President and CEO, as well as the Chairman of
The Board of Canada Post Corporation, the President of the
Treasury Board, President of The Queen’s Privy Council, at the
address, FAX email addresses noted on the attachment.
Click here to view. The message is simple: Just say NO.
Say NO to:
A rate cap formula that
permits this crown corporation to increase its domestic
stamp rate annually with no justification but this legal nicety
implemented by
Parliament, which the mailing industry has protested for years.
A process that increases the
domestic stamp rate with no avenue of appeal by the
Corporation’s largest customers and best sales force, and on
which the business “incentive” rates are predicated and dictated
to business.
A process by which this crown corporation is
still judge and jury where there supposedly is an opportunity to
appeal, on USA and International rates and conditions.
By submitting your protest at
this early stage, we will build awareness and clarity around
this business process issue, with a view toward a positive remedy.
Write today.
NAMMU will also ask you to write
again when you receive your sales agreement from Canada Post in
July for domestic incentive rates, stating what the Corporation
has decided business will pay in January 2006. NAMMU will also
hold a general mailing industry meeting in July to finalize the
Phase 11 report which builds on the initiatives and
recommendations of the 2004 Phase 1 report: Canada Post and The
Mailing Industry: Shaping A New Business Model.
Please take the time to write
today to each person on the attachment and include your member of
Parliament:
click here to locate your MP by postal code. Copy NAMMU and
email
executive@nammu.org or FAX: 416-977-4513 with a copy of your
protest. Just say NO.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Rowe
President
