Season's Greetings: "Window", but...Theo Nelson to go digital :-(

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Sign of the times; expensive postage makes Theo go email art:

But so happy to have this lovely mail art in my mail box!

..and a Chicago FluxFest stamp, too:

Signed, sealed and delivered...by snail mail :-)

Thanks so much, Theo...see you on-line!

xxx

Canadian postage getting expensive...$2.50 wow:

[Theo Nelson]

The price went up to $2.50 after the Spring Seasonal Greetings were mailed, Erni. Postcards and letter envelopes up to a certain weight are the same price.
Yes, I have sent a piece to the Windsor PO. Will be sending more. :)

[Jack Oudyn]

Canada and Australia must have more in common than PMs that like each other because they think alike. We too are likely to privatise in the future. Meanwhile, we jack up the  price to $2.60 for post card (but the same for a letter to 50gm) and float the idea that we really only need a postal delivery 3 times a week or so. I think keep using snail mail but cram full an envelope of lovely stuff for the same price.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

We might have to overload the Canadian Postal Service with Mail Art!

Show them that there is a need to keep the postal system public,

and inexpensive...

There is one mail art call at "Mail-Art Projects" group...

SAVE CANADA POST

Send mail art, postcards, etc. to:

one ten park: a working place

110 Park Street West

Windsor, Ontario

N9A 7A5 CANADA

by September 1, 2014...

This is the only remaining post office in Windsor,

and it is still a working place :-)

[Theo Nelson]

No such luck in Canada. The PO was made a “Crown Corporation” and as such, is no longer answerable to Parliament. Don’t you just love neo-liberal philosophy? So, ultimately, the profitable bits of Canada Post will be sold off to private enterprise (at a loss, of course, to the citizens who built the enterprise) and the remaining bits will be forced to be “profitable” by raising rates to exorbitant levels. Kind of like now, only worse. Funny how other important services like fire and police and military don’t have to profitable but the PO does. Umm... I have to stop now. You would not want to be arguing the other position if we were in a bar...

[Theo Nelson]

Actually Erni, our international rate is now $2.50. Canadian went from 0.63 to 0.85 and to the States went up from 1.10 to 1.20. At least the US wasn’t too huge. Our Post Office is, sadly, extremely poorly managed and with a decidedly neo-liberal ideology courtesy of our right-wing federal government.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Oh yes, 500 cards per sending!!! per season x 4 = 2000 ...and that would be

a whole lot of Canadian dollars! AACK! 

Will see you in the mail, Theo, for other mail art sendings .xxx

[Theo Nelson]

It is just Seasonal Greetings that is getting the chop as snail mail. All my other forms of mailart will continue to be sent via the postal system. “SG” at four times a year and over 500 cards per sending was a huge expense. I could handle being nickel and dimed by the PO but their latest increase was a nearly 40% jump all at once. On the plus side, it frees up money for me to be more extravagant with other projects. :)

[Valentine Mark Herman]

I find it so sad when the ever increasing price of stamps forces people out of sending mail by post