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Community papers
fighting post office

“WE CAN’T deliver
mail, but they can
deliver flyers.”’

“By DAWN BURKE:

North Shore News
publisher Peter Speck has
blasted Canada Post for tak-
ing unfair advantage of
suburban and community
newspapers by delivering
advertising mail at
unrealistically low prices.

Speck was responding to a

report in the Communicator, |

a publication put out by the
British Columbia and Yukon
Community Newspapers
Association, that said
postmasters across Canada
will be told ad mail sales ef-
forts must net infringe on.
private business.

According to the Com-
municator, acting Canada
Post president Don Landers
will issue a directive shortly.

But Hugh Dickson, execu-
tive director of the com-

munity newspapers:

organization, says the direc-
tive has not arrived and he
does not know when to ex-
pect it. He is urging all
community and suburban
publishers to mount a let-
ter-writing campaign to local
MPs.

DIRECTIVE

Dickson says the directive
will be two-fold: postmasters
will be told to be less ag-
gressive in marketing ad
mail, and they will be told to
be more “‘reasonable’’.in in-
terpreting the complex regu-
lations that govern the
delivery of newspapers by
the postal corporation.

Speck. and Dickson both

agree that the delivery of @

flyers, or ad mail as it is
called in the industry, cuts
into revenue of community
and suburban newspapers.

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““Our members’ revenue is
increasing with the trend
towards flyers,’ Dickson
stated. ‘‘It could be as much
as 20 per cent from flyers."

Speck and Dickson are
both equally vocal about the
fact that the post office, as a
tax-subsidized Crown cor-
poration, is playing unfairly
by aggressively chasing after
business they say is theirs. .

STEALING

Speck charged Canada
Post with stealing from
community newspapers to

“staggering deficits."”

“We are corporate and
personal taxpayers,'’ Speck
said, ‘and we are fighting to
make a living, to pay our
employees, our taxes and to
run a business. On the other
hand, the tax-subsidized
Canada Post is busy running
around selling our flyers at
lower rates and subsidizing
the difference with our tax
money.

“We are restricted by law
from delivering mail,’
Speck continued, ‘although

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