David, are you sure about this?  I believe Canada Post owns Purolator
Courier, not the other way around.  I worked for Canada Post years ago when
they bought Purolator before it went bankrupt.  Check out the canadapost.ca
website if you like, it mentions the Government as little as possible
(surprise) but it's there.

http://www.canadapost.ca/corporate/about/annual_report/eng/governance.html

Here's a link to the Canada Post Corporation Act:

http://lois.justice.gc.ca/en/C-10/text.html

And here's a link to Purolator:

http://www.purolator.com/dbwp/corporate_history.html

Yes, I do have too much time on my hands.
Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Marshall" <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: Canadians beware! UPS are a bunch of crooks

> They (UPS and Fed-Ex) will tell you that they are not a government run
> service like the post office and there for have to charge the 'real' cost
of
> the customs service.  Here is a piece of information for you all - Canada
> Post is NOT owned by the Canadian Government - they are owned by Purolator
> Currior and Purolator Currior does the customs stuff (same as UPS or
Fed-Ex
> would be doing) - this is why XpressPost packages are quick and traceable
as
> they are sent with the Purolator Courior packages and the discount comes
> from the "you have to pick it up at the Post Office / Mail Box" service
> level as opposed to a human handing it to you.