Canada Post seeing success with concept store in Vancouver
Posted January 19, 2017 6:27 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Canada Post seems to have a hit on their hands at a concept store in in Downtown Vancouver. Stamp collectors and regular mail users have been lining up for computer-vended postage stamps.
Jim Phillips with Canada Post says the $35 sets come in strips of five featuring artwork by the Group of Seven and Emily Carr. He adds there’s a limit of just 150 stamps. “But they go in and use their credit card to buy 150 and there’s no one right in line behind them — they can buy another 150 stamps. Really, the program is not put in for stamp collectors, it’s put in for consumers after-hours.”
According to All Nations Stamps and Coin, a set of the computer-vended postage sold last month for $104.50. “Currently available at three concept stores where we are piloting different things. We have drive-thru centres in Edmonton and in Richmond Hill, Ontario — change rooms in the post office, [they] can try it on and return it right away.”
This is all happening at a 24-hour kiosk on West Georgia Street between Richards and Homer Streets, across from the city’s main post office.
