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Re: America and Canada (was Re: Installing Panther on B/W G3)
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:14:36 +0000, Wayne Stewart wrote:
> Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>
>> I've never heard anything about this. Are the Canadian and US postal
>> services trying to merge or something?
>
> Not much chance of that. Canadas union would fight it tooth and nail.
It isn't necessary anyway. The useful part would just be treating
everywhere in the USA and Canada as "domestic" and having a single
tariff schedule. There wouldn't be any need to merge the organizations.
> Even if the government was willing to give up some control, from the
> user side there'd be no difference, they'll still be collecting taxes
> on goods shipped cross border.
Well that should be done away with too, but it's a separate issue.