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Thread: Canada post raising cost effect on Online shopping :-(((

  1. Sat, Oct 25th, 2014, 02:36 PM #1
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    as an online chopper, i try to reduce the shipping cost at its minimun ....lately, i noticed some huge changes in the chipping fees on some of my favorites online stores

    Nailpolish Canada who used to offer Free shipping for Canadian now required a $25 minimun to have Free shipping
    Marcelle Canada who used to offer Free shipping for Canadian now required a $50 minimun to have Free shipping
    Amazone Canada who used to offer Free shipping on $25 + Canadian now have no longer Free shipping offer

    those are the ones i noticed so far.....might be more on the list to come.....

    very sad for people who prefer to shop quietly in the confort of their home instead of in the Frenzy of stressfull malls
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    nail polish canada had a $25 minimum for quite some time before. The free shipping was a promo, that just happen to last a long time lol
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    Is this CP raising the shipping costs or the stores doing this?
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    It seems to be the stores setting a minimum spend before free shipping is an option. Or in Amazon's case, find the option before you commit to the order.
    I'm looking at contests with Amazon gift cards as I'm keen to get in on the shopping deals other SCers have mentioned as well as buy a book or two!
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    Quote Originally Posted by walkonby View Post
    Is this CP raising the shipping costs or the stores doing this?
    in my mind , the stores afforded free or close to free shipping because of the low CP shipping cost and now they (CP) raised their cost ...so did the stores...just what i noticed recently.....this was just MHO

    i might be wrong
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    P.S. i'm all with CP empoyees and i told them at my PO.....my PO is now half the size it used to be and they cut services, people wait longer in line....not CP employees fault....we still have mail and parcels but there are less CP people to take care of it
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    You may be right them Mia. Everything is going up everywhere!! getting tougher to find deals to have things mailed to us.




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    Cp has to recover costs from dwindling mail and paperless billing obviously but they do own purolator. While these are two separate companies I'm sure their bottom line isn't too bad. I'm sure as a corporation online shopping has been a godsend for them. During postal strikes purolator was booming to the point of renting trucks and hiring brokers to handle the volume.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mia001 View Post
    as an online chopper, i try to reduce the shipping cost at its minimun ....lately, i noticed some huge changes in the chipping fees on some of my favorites online stores

    Nailpolish Canada who used to offer Free shipping for Canadian now required a $25 minimun to have Free shipping
    Marcelle Canada who used to offer Free shipping for Canadian now required a $50 minimun to have Free shipping
    Amazone Canada who used to offer Free shipping on $25 + Canadian now have no longer Free shipping offer

    those are the ones i noticed so far.....might be more on the list to come.....

    very sad for people who prefer to shop quietly in the confort of their home instead of in the Frenzy of stressfull malls
    Prediction: free shipping will be offered
    1. during Black Friday/Cyber Monday
    2. during large shopping holiday times - like Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day
    3. when the store sales are low and stores want to boost sales
    4. when a competitor offers limited free shipping
    5. when a lot of people contact their favourite companies and tell them they miss free shipping

    Strategy:
    Wait for free shipping days and stock up

    Just a prediction. Dont' know for sure. But they seem to do this kind of thing a lot
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    I recently wrote a full post on how Canadians can save big on all shipping charges. If you live at/near the US border it may be worth your while to use a shipping outlet. Full details here: http://www.ourbigfatwallet.com/how-c...ine-purchases/
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    Quote Originally Posted by walkonby View Post
    Is this CP raising the shipping costs or the stores doing this?
    Not necessarily Canada Post, because companies don't always go with Canada Post as their preferred shipper.

    With whatever parcel company they go with, they negotiate much better rates depending on the number of parcels they'll guarantee to ship.
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