One of Canada’s largest gay sex shops is questioning Canada Post’s requirement that any admail with even a hint of sexuality be placed in an opaque envelope marked “adult material” — even if the mail is addressed and solicited.Priape’s director of marketing and planning says the postal agency’s new policy requiring warning labels on already opaque envelopes is causing concern throughout the gay store’s customer base.
It’s hard on business, says Daniel St-Louis. “We guarantee discretion and envelopes that don’t contain anything but a return address.”
Priape specializes in gay, leather and SM clothing, sex toys and porn and has stores in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary. It also distributes four catalogues a year to customers who have asked to be placed on its mailing list.
St Louis says Priape never had any problems sending the catalogues — which are addressed, solicited and placed in “inconspicuous envelopes” — as bulk mail through Canada Post. Until last January.
That’s when he noticed some catalogues that had been returned to the store had been stamped with a warning: “adult material.”
The warning stamp stems from a court challenge to Canada Post’s “Non-Mailable Matter” policy in 2006. BC’s Sex Party challenged the policy after the postal agency refused to deliver one of its political pamphlets containing images of potentially erotic art, including a photo of a doorknob in the shape of a penis.
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One of Canada’s largest gay sex shops is questioning Canada Post’s requirement that any admail with even a hint of sexuality be placed in an opaque envelope marked “adult material” — even if the mail is addressed and solicited.
Priape’s director of marketing and planning says the postal agency’s new policy requiring warning labels on already [...]
