The stamp celebrates the centenary of the Central Post Office building in Copenhagen.

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published September 23rd, 2012

All Post Offices nationwide will be open Christmas Eve, Saturday, Dec. 24, and New Year’s Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31. Most will have shortened retail lobby hours and will close at noon. Mail delivery for Dec. 24 and Dec. 31 will be the same as any other Saturday.

Each Post Office will post its revised hours of operation for these two days. Commercial customers should check with their Business Mail Entry Units for Dec. 24 and Dec. 31 hours of operation.  (read more)

published December 24th, 2011

Canada Post is busy processing and delivering more than one billion pieces of mail, including millions of gifts to friends and loved ones. Unfortunately, this can create increased opportunities for fraudulent activities by Grinch Spammers looking to mislead people awaiting packages. 

Canada Post advises customers to be wary of any emails they receive from senders claiming to be delivery companies, particularly those that invite customers to click on a link to obtain information about an apparent missed delivery. Do not provide any personal information if prompted to do so by these emails.

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published December 23rd, 2011

A large truck contracted by Australia Post to transport mail items from Perth to Brisbane over the weekend caught fire near Tweed Heads in New South Wales early on Sunday 18 December.

Unfortunately the fire totally destroyed the truck along with the contents which were parcels bound for Queensland. 

It took about an hour for the fire to be contained, luckily the driver escaped unharmed and there were no other injuries resulting from the fire.

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published December 22nd, 2011

The Comptes Chèques Postaux (CCP) service was launched in Luxembourg on 1 October 1911 by the then Director-General of Finances, Mr Mathias Mongenast, who was in charge of postal, telegraph, and telephone services.

The introduction of such a service in Luxembourg and elsewhere had its roots at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in a time of monetary shortage and need for capital. To convince the population to have confidence in bank accounts, the creators of the CCP offered a free service. The future would prove them right: the CCP has seen rapid growth, (read more)

published December 19th, 2011

With the holidays approaching, Canada Post is busier than Santa’s toy shop. The company is adding people and vehicles to ensure that cards and gifts reach Canadians in time for Christmas.

As the only company that delivers to every address in the country—and a supplier of choice for people who shop online—Canada Post is expected to deliver more than one billion cards, letters and parcels by Christmas Day. The company will employ 2,400 additional workers to help with the increased mail volumes, as well as schedule more planes and trucks to carry greeting cards and parcels this holiday season.

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published December 17th, 2011

Royal Mail is extending the opening hours of almost 1,400 delivery offices until Christmas to make it even easier for people to collect online orders that could not be delivered because no one was at home.

The move was announced on Royal Mail’s busiest day during the festive period. Royal Mail expects to handle around 130 million today – more than double the normal daily mailbag of 59 million items. In total, Royal Mail expects to handle a festive mailbag of around two billion items.

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published December 16th, 2011

Royal Mail announced that it has received 110,000 applications across the UK for 18,000 seasonal workers to help sort its Christmas mailbag of around two billion items.

Seasonal workers have already started working in Royal Mail locations across the UK to support Royal Mail’s permanent 130,000 postmen and women who sort and deliver the mail all year round, including Christmas, the busiest time of the year for the postal service.  (read more)

published November 27th, 2011

Australia Post is alerting customers to an unsolicited phone call scam which claims that a parcel could not be delivered to the recipient and that redelivery can be arranged after a payment is made.

The scammer may present themselves as an employee of Australia Post or staff member from one of our retail outlets. The scammer will provide a reason as to why delivery has failed (e.g. parcel too large) and advise that with a payment, delivery can occur.

Australia Post will never call customers to request payment for an undeliverable mail item.

Source: Australia Post

published November 6th, 2011

Canada Post announced that it has selected Bird Design-Build Construction Inc. to design and build its new processing facility at the Vancouver International Airport in the City of Richmond, British Columbia.

Bird Design-Build Construction Inc. was chosen by Canada Post following a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process. A long-term land lease has been secured with the Vancouver Airport Authority, and the new postal facility will be situated on 42 acres of land at the city’s international airport. Construction on the 700,000-square-foot processing facility is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2011 and is expected to be fully operational in 2014.

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published October 29th, 2011

Canada Post Corporation reported that its core Canada Post business (“Canada Post segment”) lost $35 million in the second quarter ended July 2, 2011. That represents a $70-million decline from the $35-million profit recorded by the Canada Post segment in the same period a year earlier. During the quarter, the Canada Post segment lost an estimated $167 million in revenues due to the impact of the labour disruption in June involving the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

The Corporation, including the Canada Post segment and consolidated results of the Purolator, Logistics and other segments, reported a loss of $17 million in the second quarter, down from a net profit of $47 million during the same period a year earlier. Consolidated revenue from operations in the second quarter was $1.76 billion, down 2.4% from the same period a year earlier.  (read more)

published September 3rd, 2011