International Trade committee  What we're trying to do at Canada Post is leverage the different streams so that we can bring products to market that are very beneficial to e-commerce sellers that are sending outside the country. One example is that we introduced a service that leverages lightweight product categories called Small Packet and Tracked Packet in the UPU environment.

International Trade committee  On the 99¢, the compensation model between posts is based on the product that's sent, and it's based on generally both a piece rate and a per-kilogram rate. We could come up with a lot of different numbers, depending on what the weight of the item was.

International Trade committee  There's quite a bit of history with regard to the relationships between the different posts and how they're compensated. In the past there were products designed for letters, such as registered mail, for example, or packets, and the posts would pay each other compensation that would be reflective of a letter.