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.
This. A 4oz package i ship to someone next door to me (or anywhere in the US) costs me $2.66 (with a commercial discount). A 4oz package from China (to anywhere in the US) costs the Chinese company.17 cents.
For these dipshits complaining us "leftists" should be on board with everyone paying their fair share but aren't... it's not that we don't think that, it's just that we seem to have a better idea of what the problem is than shit-for-brain idiots who only listen to grab-them-by-the-pussy-Trump.
It's the way international postage works. They pay for their cost where it originates, not where it ends up.... something like that. Go to a site like Ebay, for example, and search for some little low value item. You'll see all sorts of sales for less than a dollar, with free shipping.... all from China. With a minimum $2.66 just in postage, US companies simply can't compete; and that's not mentioning cost increases. 6 years ago, my first class package cost was $1.68 (i believe... maybe it was $1.63) for 3oz.
E-commerce is the future, but one that US is losing to almost everyone else.
yeah but if you have ever ordered anything like that you understand why - I will order connectors and such from china (and canada) all the time because they are like literally $.30- $1.00 a pop and you do wait a good 2-6 weeks usually for the items to show up. The Int'l shipping comes at a cost of convenience because they are group shipped often by sea rather than air so even when they are shipped out immediately you may wait a month or more for your package depending on the volume that they happen to be hi
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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.
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For these dipshits complaining us "leftists" should be on board with everyone paying their fair share but aren't... it's not that we don't think that, it's just that we seem to have a better idea of what the problem is than shit-for-brain idiots who only listen to grab-them-by-the-pussy-Trump.
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> costs the Chinese company .17 cents.
how is that possible?
Re:Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? (Score:3)
E-commerce is the future, but one that US is losing to almost everyone else.
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Actually this is incorrect.
Read about "e-packets" from the source..
This is why it costs less to send a package from China to New York then it does to send a package from New York to a block away.
http://about.usps.com/news/nat... [usps.com]
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yeah but if you have ever ordered anything like that you understand why - I will order connectors and such from china (and canada) all the time because they are like literally $.30- $1.00 a pop and you do wait a good 2-6 weeks usually for the items to show up. The Int'l shipping comes at a cost of convenience because they are group shipped often by sea rather than air so even when they are shipped out immediately you may wait a month or more for your package depending on the volume that they happen to be hi