Friday, June 18, 2010

Inflation of Canadian Stamps

I was looking for a stamp to mail my letter within Canada and it's crazy to see the inflation. I still have some old stamps laying around.



1985 $0.32

my stamps are from 2001, $0.46 to mail within Canada

and I've written down that January 17, 2005 it went up to $0.50,
January 16, 2006 it went up to $0.51
and January 15, 2007 it went up to $0.52.
Right now it's at $0.57.

International stamps were $1.40 back in 2002,
$1.45 in 2005 and $1.49 in 2006.
Now it's $1.70.

U.S. Stamps were $0.55 in 2002,
$0.85 in 2006
and now it's $1.00. That's like the biggest jump in price.

It's damn expensive to mail things from Canada now. Add gas taxes and other stuff on top of parcels :S