I have a dear friend, well a few dear friends in Florida but this specific Dear Friend is in Palm Beach. We were chatting about 3 weeks ago about casual shoes.  I told her what I prefer to wear, and she said, no problem, they carry that style at the local dollar store. Palm Beach has Dollar Sto...

Sacre Hockey Pucks!  It' s happened again,  Once more, I have received a notice from Canada Post, in my mailbox, that the Postman tried to deliver a package, and failed.  And once again, it's all MY fault. It is but like Hell, to quote my dead Irish American Mother. Who do I have to b...

Good story today on Masthead's website about the real costs of Canada Post's distance-related pricing on one national magazine, The Beaver. It will increase its mailing costs 6.2% and, if those costs can't be mitigated, the difference will come out of the editorial budget. And it may cost a Manitoba...

(Even at the risk of treating readers like postal nerds and overloading them with the minutiae of postal policy and politics, we think this is an important issue for the delivery of magazines. So bear with us.) Canada Post seems intent on moving to "distance based pricing" for Publications Mail star...

Well holy shit! I went to check on the status of my parcels and was surprised to see that it’s heading in the wrong direction. Really wrong direction! Their slogan should be, “From Anywhere, To Anyone…….Eventually….maybe…” This is what I saw when I entered t...

U.S. magazine publishers are getting nervous that falling volumes and revenue from first class and other non-publications mail are threatening an agreement they only recently hammered out with the US Postal Service (USPS). According to a story in Folio: First Class Mail volume declined in the first ...