If they want to go after someone that is abusing the USPS it's the Chinese sellers that use international postal law to get the USPS to pay the expensive last mile.
Most of them use ePacket now... a wholly USPS owned and operated service with depots in every major manufacturing hub in China.
So lets get this right... USPS sets up this system just for US Tech companies to get electronic parts and modules from China delivered cheap and quick... and you want to "go after them" for USING IT?
*Shakes head*
mnem
Now for something completely... the same old Western Corporate-Centric BS.
Look, I will not claim to know the ins and outs of ePacket and the USPS.
All I know is I can go on AliExpress and buy something for anywhere from $0.49 and it will come with free shipping across the entire globe. Please explain to me how it is economical for someone to make a profit margin on a $0.49 good *and* ship it internationally.
This shipping is being subsidized by someone, because there is no way it is being done profitably.
Of course it is; but you have it bass-ackwards. They make their profit on the large commercial shipments being carried on the same trucks, airplanes & ships. These bazillion 25 shipments are what gets shoved in sacks to fill every last corner and crevice in the hold; they are what actually pays for the fuel for the main trip.
Whining about the "last mile" is stupid; you think they lose money on their presort & bulk mail too? Of course they don't.
mnem
But wait, there's more! Now how much would you pay
Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that, literally, why they exist?
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I think that he thinks that the USPS delivers Amazon's stuff for free using Unicorns.
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If they want to go after someone that is abusing the USPS it's the Chinese sellers that use international postal law to get the USPS to pay the expensive last mile.
Re:Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? (Score:5, Insightful)
LOLOL... SERIOUSLY?!?
Most of them use ePacket now... a wholly USPS owned and operated service with depots in every major manufacturing hub in China.
So lets get this right... USPS sets up this system just for US Tech companies to get electronic parts and modules from China delivered cheap and quick... and you want to "go after them" for USING IT?
*Shakes head*
mnem
Now for something completely... the same old Western Corporate-Centric BS.
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Look, I will not claim to know the ins and outs of ePacket and the USPS.
All I know is I can go on AliExpress and buy something for anywhere from $0.49 and it will come with free shipping across the entire globe. Please explain to me how it is economical for someone to make a profit margin on a $0.49 good *and* ship it internationally.
This shipping is being subsidized by someone, because there is no way it is being done profitably.
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Of course it is; but you have it bass-ackwards. They make their profit on the large commercial shipments being carried on the same trucks, airplanes & ships. These bazillion 25 shipments are what gets shoved in sacks to fill every last corner and crevice in the hold; they are what actually pays for the fuel for the main trip.
Whining about the "last mile" is stupid; you think they lose money on their presort & bulk mail too? Of course they don't.
mnem
But wait, there's more! Now how much would you pay
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