Postal Guide
- Canada Postal Guide

Last updated: 2006-09-18

Section E – Chapter 10

Air Stage Offices

Table of Contents

• What is it?
• Air Stage Offices List

What is it?  to top of page

An Air Stage Office is a post office to or from which all mail must be airlifted for more than six (6) months of every year as a viable surface transportation alternative is not available. These offices are generally confined to remote or isolated communities (please refer to the Air Stage Offices List).

Customers shipping packages may ship to or from Air Stage Offices using Priority Courier, Xpresspost, Expedited Parcel (contract Customers only) and Regular Parcel at the regular prices for the service chosen.

However, Expedited Parcel prices apply when any Customer* using Regular Parcel and shipping to or from one or several Air Stage Offices send:

• more than 5 parcels, or more than 20 kilograms of parcels on any day; or
• more than 20 parcels, or more than 80 kilograms of parcels in any month.

Exceptions:

• parcels sent to the same postal code;
• parcels sent within the same FSA (Forward Sortation Area) in other words, Regular Parcel rated rate code 33.

*Customer (whether a business or an individual)

These prices take into account the costs of transporting shipments in the North that are not presently reflected in Counter prices.

Air Stage Offices List  to top of page

NOTE:
An office designated an Air Stage Office is deemed to be Air Stage for the whole year.

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