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Our local municipality is looking at a 4.5-5.5% tax increase that is driven primarily by the cost of fuel. It imapcts everything from the cost of running buses, to heating buildings, to the cost of asphalt, to the cost of food for the various social services they run.

Ford is absolutely correct, most industries in North America have been greatly impacted by rising fuel and gas costs. Both major Canadian railroads - CN & CP charge a 10% fuel surcharge on ag commodities that has been in effect only for about the past year. Trucking companies all have fuel surcharges in effect of between 10 and 15%. The majority of this surcharge has gone into effect over the past year. I can understand completely why couriers charges are increasing and as a result why Axiom would have to increase their charges. Seems more than reasonable to me.

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