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My wife was shipping a handbag to a Chinese eBay buyer and she was at the post office and they wanted $17 to ship it by USPS First Class International. It's not even in a box just a plastic shipping bag.
What's weird is that I buy stuff online and I notice that the postage on these Chinese goods shipped from China only costs around $2 and takes around 3 weeks to get here.
How can it be that cheap or maybe USPS overcharges us.
It costs a lot more to run the USPS than the Chinese PS. Labor costs, federal pension, and all that. And the USPS doesn't even break even; it's underfunded.
Count your blessings; to ship anything by UPS to Russia it's around $75, minimum.
My wife was shipping a handbag to a Chinese eBay buyer and she was at the post office and they wanted $17 to ship it by USPS First Class International. It's not even in a box just a plastic shipping bag.
What's weird is that I buy stuff online and I notice that the postage on these Chinese goods shipped from China only costs around $2 and takes around 3 weeks to get here.
How can it be that cheap or maybe USPS overcharges us.
USPS employees are middle class and aren't slaves making 5 dollars a day
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Were your China goods delivered by USPS? Once goods reach US Shores, they are handled by US workers that make US wages. Suspect a subsidy by China retailer.
Ironically, your USPS goods shipped to China probably have far greater risk to NOT getting delivered once they arrive in China. $17 does not cover required bribes to get through officials / various economic borders / 'taxes' within China. Would be like paying and extra tax, for each USA state your USPS shipment crossed.
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Were your China goods delivered by USPS? Once goods reach US Shores, they are handled by US workers that make US wages. Suspect a subsidy by China retailer.
Ironically, your USPS goods shipped to China probably have far greater risk to NOT getting delivered once they arrive in China. $17 does not cover required bribes to get through officials / various economic borders / 'taxes' within China. Would be like paying and extra tax, for each USA state your USPS shipment crossed.
Maybe people shouldn't live in such a backward third world country where bribes are that common.
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Maybe people shouldn't live in such a backward third world country where bribes are that common.
China comprises nearly 20% of the population of entire world those folks and many like them do not get a choice of where they live. That is why thousands of refugees / exiles / persecuted per day are at great risk.
My wife was shipping a handbag to a Chinese eBay buyer and she was at the post office and they wanted $17 to ship it by USPS First Class International. It's not even in a box just a plastic shipping bag.
What's weird is that I buy stuff online and I notice that the postage on these Chinese goods shipped from China only costs around $2 and takes around 3 weeks to get here.
How can it be that cheap or maybe USPS overcharges us.
It's that cheap from a dealer in China, because they ship many thousands of items on a regular basis. You would be shipping just one item.
Part of it is labor and part of it is the volume of shipping is either direction. Prices are higher where there cargo containers are full and can be quite cheap if the containers (or trucks or mailbags, or shipping units), which must return are returning empty. A few dollars is better than nothing on a container that costs to move yet is providing no income.
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those folks and many like them do not get a choice of where they live. That is why thousands of refugees / exiles / persecuted per day are at great risk.
