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Letter Mail Regulations

Version of section 3 from 2009-01-12 to 2009-05-13:

  •  (1) The rates set out in subitem 1(1) of the schedule apply to an item of letter mail that meets the applicable requirements for standard mail.

  • (2) [Repealed, SOR/2004-294, s. 1]

  • (3) The rates set out in item 2 of the schedule apply to an item of letter mail other than an item referred to in subsections (1) and (2).

  • (4) Increases to the domestic basic letter rate, if any, shall go into effect the second Monday after January 3 of each year.

  • (4.1) The Canada Post Corporation shall publish a notice in the Canada Gazette of any increase to the domestic basic letter rate no later than July 1 in the year before the increase goes into effect.

  • (5) The increase referred to in subsection (4) shall be the result determined in accordance with the following formula rounded down to the nearest whole cent:

    (A × B) + C

    where

    A
    is the domestic basic letter rate then in effect;
    B
    is the reduced consumer price index factor; and
    C
    is any fractional rate increase in the calculation of the previous increase to the domestic basic letter rate that has not been applied as a result of rounding down to the nearest whole cent.
  • (6) For the purpose of calculating the rate increase after January 1st, 1999, the value of C is $0.236.

  • (7) Despite subsections (1) to (6), for the period beginning on January 12, 2009 and ending on January 10, 2010, the domestic basic letter rate shall be 54 cents.

  • SOR/88-613, s. 2
  • SOR/90-801, s. 4
  • SOR/91-625, s. 2
  • SOR/2000-221, s. 2
  • SOR/2001-178, s. 1
  • SOR/2001-443, s. 1
  • SOR/2003-382, s. 21(F)
  • SOR/2004-294, s. 1
  • SOR/2009-5, s. 1

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