Getting numbers from Canada Post is a piece of cake. They have pamphlets with all their rates that you can pick up from any post office. I always used to pick them up when I did a fair amount of shipping. The latest ones I have are from a couple of years ago, but the prices shouldn't have changed much.
XpressPost is Canada Post's method of delivering registered packages at an economical cost. They say local delivery is one day, national is two days between major centers and three days for smaller places. Toronto and Vancouver count as major centers. If it's a Toronto suburb like Burlington, it might be three days.
Here are some prices for national delivery, off the top of my head. These are items you can buy at the post office to put your goods in. Add tax to these prices as well:
- large padded envelope: around $9.00
- medium sized box (maybe 60 CDs?): around $20.00
Also, you can XpressPost your own boxes. It counts by weight:
- 5.5 pounds: around $14.00
- 12 pounds: around $20.00
- 22 pounds: around $30.00
- 70 pounds: around $70.00
These prices are for shipping between postal codes "M"/"L" and "V", which is approximately Toronto and Vancouver.
Priority Courier is next business day service. It costs approximately double the price of XpressPost. Compare this to Federal Express freight. I recently had some computer equipment shipped approximately the same distance between Toronto and Vancouver, but going north-south, not east-west. It was three large monitors and two workstations and costed somewhere between $200.00 and $300.00 (I don't know the exact number). There was probably around 250 pounds of equipment.
This is just the cost of postage. How do CD manufacturers charge for shipping? Do they just charge what it costs for them to ship? Do they have a built-in price like $0.45 for 1-1000 CDs, $0.40 for 1001-3000 CDs, etc.? Do they charge their own shipping rates (likely higher than the actual postage cost, with built-in handling fee)? Do they charge a handling fee?
I didn't list precise numbers above (saying "around $14.00" instead of "$14.05") because close approximations are relevant enough. If you want exact numbers, go down to any post office and they should have the pamphlets. |
