Couriers and Messengers Services Price Index, June 2017
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Released: 2017-07-31
The Couriers and Messengers Services Price Index (CMSPI) decreased 0.1% in June. This was the first decrease since September 2016.
The couriers component was unchanged, while the local messengers and local delivery component decreased 0.4%.
Year-over-year change
The CMSPI posted a 9.4% increase in June compared with the same month a year earlier. Both the couriers component (+10.5%) and the local delivery component (+4.2%) increased.
Note to readers
The Couriers and Messengers Services Price Index (CMSPI) is a monthly price index measuring price changes for courier and messenger services provided by long and short distance delivery companies to Canadian-based business clients.
Data are available at the Canada level only.
With each release, data for the previous six months may have been revised. The index is not seasonally adjusted.
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