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A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport ( truck , ship , train , aircraft ), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.
Purolator Inc. is a Canadian courier majority owned by Canada Post. It was founded as Trans Canada Couriers, Ltd and acquired in 1967 by Purolator, a US manufacturer of oil and air filters. [3] In 1987, the company returned to Canadian ownership.
A Canada Post community mailbox in Ontario. In 2014, Canada Post began to phase out door-to-door service in urban centres, in favour of community mailboxes—a process that was estimated to affect 32% of Canadian addresses (urban areas developed after 1985 already use community mailboxes, and customers using rural mailboxes would not be affected).
Daily rates only, for packages equal to or less than one cubic foot / 1,728 cubic inches.) Canada Domestic: 139 cubic inches per pound (5,000 cm 3 /kg) or 1 ⁄ 5 kg/dm 3 (12 lb/cu ft) (All except UPS Standard within Canada.) Canada Domestic: 166 cubic inches per pound (6,000 cm 3 /kg) or 1 ⁄ 6 kg/dm 3 (10 lb/cu ft) (UPS Standard within Canada.)
One of the largest marshalling yards in Canada (432 acres site with 90 miles (140 km) of track and 311 switches), the Toronto Yard is used to switch freight cars. The yard is divided up into the following (North to South): A Yard, consisting of ten tracks. B Yard, consisting of ten tracks. C Yard, formerly consisting of 72 classification tracks.
The Politics of Freight Rates McClelland and Stewart 1980; Due J. F. The Intercity Electric Railway Industry in Canada University of Toronto Press 1966; Eagle J. A., The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896–1914. McGill-Queen's University Press 1989
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