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.
Edit: To summarize, there’s an international org (UPU) that controls the amount postal services can charge each other to deliver mail/parcels. The current due is below what it costs to actually deliver a parcel, so a package from China actually costs the USPS money. That cost gets passed on as higher domestic fees, leading to a situation where a shipper is charged ~5x more to ship something domestically compared to what a company in China is charged to ship to the US.
I don’t know why you got down voted because it’s 100% true. NPR did a fairly good episode on it: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/episode-857-the-postal-illuminati
Edit: To summarize, there’s an international org (UPU) that controls the amount postal services can charge each other to deliver mail/parcels. The current due is below what it costs to actually deliver a parcel, so a package from China actually costs the USPS money. That cost gets passed on as higher domestic fees, leading to a situation where a shipper is charged ~5x more to ship something domestically compared to what a company in China is charged to ship to the US.
Good thing the USPS is a public service and not a business, and the fact that it’s not expected to turn a profit is actually a feature and not a bug.
Interesting.
It looks like that’s been changed since the NPR broadcast.
https://redstagfulfillment.com/universal-postal-union-treaty/
People don’t like when something Trump does could have good reasons. It does seem accidental in this case, but it doesn’t make it not true.
How about you wake up and stop painting shit in gold?
Trump doing some good (which I don’t even think is the case here) is purely incidental to serving his own self interests.