Canada Post maintains its 3% magazine mailing increase is reasonable

Canada Post says that its 3% increase for mailing magazines starting in January 2010 is the lowest in many years and is a reflection of the service's greater costs. Increases have been kept "to a reasonable level, well below our increasing costs to serve", it said, in a reply to a letter from Magazines Canada released last week which criticized the increase as "completely unjustified". (The CPC