SYDNEY, N.S. — Cape Breton Catalogue publisher Ron Caplan is calling for lower mailing rates following his 50th year of publishing the catalogue. This ...
Cape Breton Catalogue publisher Ron Caplan is calling for lower mailing rates through Canada Post. ContributedSYDNEY, N.S. — Cape Breton Catalogue publisher Ron Caplan is calling for lower mailing rates following his 50th year of publishing the catalogue.
This year, Caplan offered a flat shipping rate of $5 for any number of books sent to one address in Canada. According to Caplan, it costs him about $18 to mail just one book from Sydney to Baddeck—a distance of about 30 miles.In the U.S., the book would travel the same distance for USD$ 3.49, which is the regular rate offered by the U.S. postal service when books are sent as Media Mail."It costs me $23 to mail one book from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. And those mailing costs are a crippler in the budget of any small Canadian publisher.
Caplan added that he is grateful to run the test of lower mailing rates made possible with help from federal government funding from the
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