----- Original Message ----- From: "DAVID PARKER" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [NZ] mail to Canada > Canada Post have confirmed that this is fact. Thank you for letting this > Canadian know. > > David > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George & Janet Edwards" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:07 PM > Subject: [NZ] mail to Canada > > >> >> >> >> >> This is some info that I have come across. You are welcome to pass it >> on. >> You may or may not have heard of mail being returned from Canada as it > did >> not have a return address on it. In the summer of 2004 the 190 members >> of >> the Universal Postal Union met. At that time Canada was the first member > to >> say that any mail coming into Canada without a return address on it >> would >> be >> returned to the country it came from. This is a result of 911 and the > fear >> of the content may cause a security threat. Postcards are exempt as both >> sides can be seen. This enforcement is not from Canada Post but actually >> from the Canada Border Services Agency [customs]. All mail coming into >> Canada enters through Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto where it is > examined >> by Customs before the Post Offices gets it. I understand that a notice > was >> put up in British Post Offices about this. as well the United States >> Post >> Office issued a warning about it. >> For packages where the contents are described on the custom label as >> "gift" or "present" this is not acceptable. >> But Canada Post has also taken to returning mail where it cannot read > the >> address easily. They want the return address in the top left had corner > on >> the front of the item, with who it is to, with Canada in block capital >> letters and the post code below. They prefer the complete address to be >> printed or typed. >> >> I have read where this happened, with the item being returned twice >> until >> the address was addressed in block letters. >> >> __________________________________________________ >> | return >> | address >> | >> | >> | >> | >> | Name >> | address >> | city >> | CANADA >> | postal code >> | >> | >> | >> | >> ___________________________________________________ >> >> I suspect that this is just the start and that other countries will > follow >> suit. I do not think that anyone sending something they should not will > put >> their own return address on the item!` >> >> Kathie >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 03/02/2005 >> >> >> ==== NEW-ZEALAND Mailing List ==== >> Don't return copies of complete mails to the list when >> replying, but edit them down to the relevant passage. >> > > > ==== NEW-ZEALAND Mailing List ==== > Don't return copies of complete mails to the list when > replying, but edit them down to the relevant passage. > >