Steep surcharges for mailing parcels may dampen holiday spirits

OTTAWA –

Canadians sending parcels this vacation season could also be stunned to see a steep surcharge on home transport because of the excessive value of diesel.

The Canadian postal service’s bundle surcharge rose to almost 40 per cent final week on home parcels and fell barely to 37 per cent this week.

Canada Post spokesman Phil Rogers says the fuel-based surcharge has been a normal firm observe for greater than 20 years and is predicated on the common value of diesel as measured by Kalibrate Technologies Ltd.

Despite the higher-than-normal costs, Canada Post anticipates a busy vacation season as Rogers says the postal service has employed 4,500 extra employees and 1,550 extra automobiles to accommodate the vacation transport surge.

Deadlines for home transport range on precedence however common parcels shipped in Canada needs to be despatched between Dec. 9 and 19 to reach in time for Christmas.

Even sooner is the deadline to ship internationally which varies relying on the nation.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Dec. 9, 2022.