By Hugh Adami, Ottawa Citizen, December 19, 2013
With postage rates about to rise significantly and urban home delivery being scrapped in favour of community mailboxes, Canada Post doesn’t need some lazy and unscrupulous jerk it employs to add to the bad optics.
Real-estate agent Mike Robinson is a pretty good Canada Post customer, spending a tidy sum every year to have desktop calendars and flyers that advertise his services delivered to potential clients. The post office delivers about 12,000 calendars and another 20,000 flyers for Robinson, who has been in the home-selling business for 23 years. The charge is about 11 cents a pop for unaddressed ad mail, on top of the 78 cents he pays the printing companies for each calendar and the 15 cents or so per flyer. He sends another 1,300 calendars to specific addresses and pays the full postal rate for those.