Without Sending Everyone Gift Cards, Begging Your Friends to Courier Things for You, or Even Getting Elected to Parliament So You Don’t Have to Pay Postage!
Our ebook gives you:
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Exact size, weight, and content limits for all Canada Post’s services, including some that may surprise you (did you know you can mail a “letter”that weighs up to a pound?)
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Dozens of ideas for quality gifts you can mail as Lettermail, Oversize Lettermail, Small Packets and Light Packets
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Where to buy them
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Tips on packing your mailings for the best possible trip
Everything you need to save big time on mailing costs all year round!
From the desk of Jane Wangersky
Hi, Canadians --
Got some gifts to buy and mail? The holidays are sneaking up on us, we have birthdays to remember, and there are all the times in between when you just want someone far away to have something you’ve picked out just for them. Good for you, but --
Have you counted postage costs?
If you're planning to send something to someone in another town, province or country . . .
Are you remembering how much it costs to mail packages in Canada?
As another customer at the postal outlet once said to me, "It costs as much to mail something as it does to buy it!"
Is Canada Post getting too much of your money? Probably!
Can you do anything about it? Yes!
Last Christmas, I mailed most of my packages for under $5 each.
(The exception was a care package going to Bucharest, full of tinned ham and other groceries. It cost me all of $18.50 to mail.)
It wasn’t like that in earlier years. One Christmas season, as I was mailing presents and cards at our local postal outlet, I ran out of cash -- with about 30 people in line behind me -- in the days before debit cards. I was only 60 cents short, and the staff very nicely covered the missing amount, but still, I wasn't going to let it happen again.
(I paid the money back, of course -- by slipping it under the door in an envelope when the place was closed!)
The whole thing would never have happened if I’d known more about how the postal system worked. But I had never thought much about how Canada Post calculates the rates on mailing packages. I just packed my stuff into any box I could find that fit, wrapped it up and hoped for the best.
And I know I'm not the only one. I've met a lady who thought it would be funny to mail someone a tiny gift in a great big box (and a sea of foam peanuts). She figured the postage wouldn't be much -- even though the gift was going to Europe -- because the package was so light.
She ended up paying $149.
I’ve never had such a nasty surprise at the postal counter myself, and I don’t intend to. It took hours of reading through the regs and rates on the Canada Post site, struggling to keep the postal terms straight in my mind, but eventually I learned to use Canada Post’s rules to keep my package-mailing costs way down.
I also learned what kinds of gifts could be sent by the lowest rates. There were so many more than I’d expected. I spent hours prowling stores with a ruler, measuring anything that looked as if it might work.
There’s a much easier way for you to learn how to choose, pack and mail gifts at the lowest postal rates anyone can get.
Download my ebook, and you’ll find a way to send a quality, personal gift to anyone anywhere in the world for just a few dollars. Guaranteed!
There’s no hidden catch. You don’t have to:
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Own a postal scale
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Break any laws
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Be an artist or even “crafty”
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Memorize all the Canada Post regs
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Send cheap stuff
Learn what to send, how to pack it and what service to use to get the lowest possible postage.
Just a few minutes from now, you can find out about:
The antiques you can mail in an envelope – they’re on page eight
The calendar that makes sure they remember your birthday – same page
Two gifts new parents will thank you for – see page nine
Toy ideas for older kids – also on page nine
A credit card-sized Swiss Army knife – it’s on page 10
What to do if you have no time to stand in line – page 12
The simple tool you can make – without cost – to tell you at a glance which service your package qualifies for – it’s the first item on the list of tips at the end.
By now you're probably wondering when and where I'm going to give you all this information, and whether it's free or what.
I'll be upfront: I charge for it.
My ebook, In Small Packages: Gifts You Can Mail at Canada's Lowest Postage Rates, is for sale at lulu.com.(Click here to see a preview.) Now, I know you're trying to save money, not find more ways to spend it. But look at it this way: What's your time worth? How much of it would you have to spend to come up with a cheap-to-mail gift for everyone on your list, all year round?
I'll save you all the time and effort for just $6.99.
(That's US$6.99, because I publish through a U.S. company. "Slightly higher in Canada", as they say -- but only slightly, with the loonie so strong.)
You could easily spend that much on coffee at the mall while you were searching for the perfect gift.
Guaranteed!
You've got nothing to lose. If the ebook doesn't help you as you thought it would, you'll get your money back. Although my publisher doesn't give refunds, if you'll email me (jane at manna dot bc dot ca -- just turn the "ats" into @ signs), I'll be glad to credit your PayPal account with the full amount, or send you a cheque if you' d prefer. Just remember to include your date of purchase.
Ready to order and start saving? Click here to go to my virtual bookstore.
Jane Wangersky
P.S. : Think of all the money you hand over at the postal counter in an average year. Wouldn't you rather have it for something else? Now you can!
