USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos
As part of new tariffs on Chinese imports, President Donald Trump eliminated an exemption for small packages, vastly increasing the amount of parcels US Customs and Border Protection needs to inspect.
republicans are so fucking stupid
USPS also lost a major revenue source
How did Bezos let this happen? Didn’t he buy his way into the administration for reasons?
Some brilliant entrepreneurs have surely already started repackaging businesses in Canada and Mexico.
No so, from the article:
Daniel, the owner of a trucking company based in Alberta, Canada, who asked to only use his first name for privacy reasons, tells WIRED that two of his company’s trucks were turned away at the US border in New York and Montana today because they contained packages originally from China. After speaking with a US Customs and Border Protection agent in Montana, the company was able to get a third truck into Washington state by removing all packages from China, Daniel says.
The way I read it, the entrepreneur is Bezos - he has his own planes etc. and does not need USPS. You have to buy Chinese stuff from him now. (I have not researched the subject in depth - this is just my take on the headline)
Bezos would still be subject tot he same import tariffs, the same Customs issues.
The way I read it is they just created a huge new workload for Customs without funding the resources to do it. Unless we make huge changes to how sites like Amazon works, now Customs needs to have an input in every one of the millions of packages directly sent from over seas every day.
USPS is smart to say there’s no way to make it work all of the sudden, but it ought to affect everyone.
….. I see a more recent post that some form of sanity prevailed. If we’re going to instigate trade wars out of spite, let’s at least have a transition where we can try to figure out how to make it work
might be safer to do it from Cuba at least there you know what bullshit you'll be dealing with next month.
Customs just found out that a kitchen cabinet maker is doing exactly that. (Might be from a different country tho)
The headline is updated on the article itself; USPS has resumed accepting such packages.
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Is there a way to just automate this with a bot or something?
A huge number of users block bots
DeJoy is still there, yes? Isn't it weird how an unelected asshat like fElon can fire employees of the government who were basically nonpartisan, not to mention dismantle agencies, as part of a fake "agency".
But somehow, in 4 years of the Biden administration a partisan hack like DeJoy kept his job....
The situation regarding Dejoy is not so simple.
Because the president can't fire him...learn then speak.
Um, I'm watching time and time again how the cons, even as a minority, were able to slow things down, demand concessions, etc., in Congress. I'm also watching how an unelected, non-government employee with no clearance and no confirmation like fElon, running a fictional agency, is able to declare that an entire REAL AGENCY is being dismantled.
So...why couldn't Biden fire that partisan hack? He just watched donvict break all kinds of norms for four years during his residency, like having "acting" cabinet members w/o any confirmations and then attempting a coup while stoking an insurrection, so I doubt too many people but the stupid and useless Tone Police were going to do anything about him firing DeJoy.
The Congress shall have Power...To establish Post Offices and post Roads
The Post Office has the constitutional authority to designate mail routes. The Post Office is also empowered to construct or designate post offices with the implied authority to carry, deliver, and regulate the mail of the United States as a whole. The Postal Power also includes the power to designate certain materials as non-mailable, and to pass statutes criminalizing abuses of the postal system (such as mail fraud and armed robbery of post offices).
Want your package from chaina? Pay the tariffs!
...then very humbly ask the Chinese government to refund you those tariff costs....
I still don't completely understand how online purchases for such end up working out. Say I buy a dog kennel. The dog kennel was purchased by an importer who pays the tariffs directly to the Treasury, and they mark the price of the product up when they sell it to me so they cover their lost profit. Maybe I misunderstood you last sentence, but no one should be having to ask China to pay anything as they didn't have to pay anything more or less. They could reduce their price to help incentivise the purchases made by the importer to avoid lost sales, but they should only lose sales if the kennel was less than 25% difference in price to start with. Which a lot of importers seem to be saying that the price is usually 300%.
Idk, time will tell
I guess a broken clock can be right twice a day, this one was actually a good idea.
Congress should re implement this one for a little while.