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farcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · il y a 1 an

USPS temporarily suspends accepting packages from China and Hong Kong

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USPS temporarily suspends accepting packages from China and Hong Kong

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farcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · il y a 1 an
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The suspension of international parcels from China and Hong Kong is effective immediately, the USPS said.
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  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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    Taking away cheap Chinese goods might be one of the few things that will wake a few Americans up?

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        Hard to match cost when labor rights such as minimum wage exist, maybe Trump and Elon will get rid of those too though.

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            I’m just replying to the “quality and cost” part of your post, which are inherently paired. Yes some products just don’t exist being made in the US, but if the store has a product that costs twice as much made domestically sitting next to a foreign product of the same or close enough quality, the price alone will dictate which they choose. This is often why domestically made versions of products aren’t available without a special order (which is even more expensive) and where tariffs are supposed to be used.

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              often times the “American made” product will just have worse quality and cost more

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          https://ohsonline.com/Articles/2025/02/04/AZ-Rep-Introduces-Bill-to-Abolish-OSHA.aspx

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        comparable in quality and cost.

        So you want (more) slave labor.

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      Americans aren’t going to wake up. They are gonna keep bowing down and eating shit.

      It’s really impressive how passive Americans have become.

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      Where are they going to put them all? There aren’t enough warehouses in all of LA. Return to sender… toss in the ocean?

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        Lots of tractor trailers that can’t get unloaded is my guess.

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      We can only hope. I’m open for anything at this point. $6/dozen eggs didn’t do it, even thought most voted for Trump to do a grocery, which he hasn’t done yet…

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    • buzz86us@lemmy.world
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      Yeah except a lot of people use it for specific parts that go to different things

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    With zero explanation. You’ve got to love the transparency and accountability of this government.

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      Update

      Already changed. The chaos is the point.

      And just for clarity: How much panic biting do you think this just produced?

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        The interesting thing is its just the same dude Trump appointed, who has been there for like 8 years now and not some random tehcnobros doing it.

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    Well there goes TEMU, ALIEXPRESS and SHEIN in one fell swoop

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      Isn’t this just USPS? Or are they blocking DHL, FedEx, etc as well?

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        It should be just USPS as that is federally controlled, while all the others are not. This move goes towards weakening and sabotaging the USPS, because guess what it delivers that every other carrier does not, ballots.

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        Every package I’ve gotten via DHL was fulfilled by USPS, though. Do they even have the infrastructure to handle their own deliveries?

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          USPS does the last mile, so I guess if you use an alternative carrier it wouldn’t be stopped at the border and fulfilled as usual, unless USPS actively looks at the from address and blocks it and the handover as well.

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            Last mile just ended with UPS.

            https://www.yahoo.com/news/usps-ups-surepost-delivery-contract-151305605.html

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          This will be a boon to UPS, DHL and FedEx as they will pick up the business. Wonder if there was a kick-back in the deal. Private subcontractors may spring up too.

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            Lol. Its not that they can’t do it, they just won’t for current prices. There won’t be a boon unless people are willing to pay a shit load more for shipping.

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      Is Wish not a thing anymore?

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        Wish got replaced with Temu. AliExpress is like the Amazon of cheap chineseum stuff and has a better selection than all the rest.

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    I just ordered a replacement board for a 3d printer that someone donated to my school on Monday. It was accepted by USPS earlier today. Fucking Perfect…

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      I just had to double check where a replacement computer fan was coming from.
      Turns out Japan, so I got lucky.

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      See this is the kinda thing Trump wants to take away… You’ll own nothing, and be happy

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    If they’re clever, they’ll just ship items to a waystation in Mexico where they’ll be relabeled.

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      for the next 28.5 days, yes

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    But muh Aliexpress.us!!!

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    There goes my giant Gardevoir plushie!

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    They’ve already changed they’re minds.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/usps-resume-accepting-china-shipments-after-initial-pause-rcna190766

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    It’ll be interesting when people can’t get their new iPhones.

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      Those aren’t delivered to Apple by USPS. Same with Amazon, Walmart etc getting Chinese stuff by container ship to sell you at huge markups. What’s stopped is you being able to get the same stuff online directly. You can’t be allowed to bypass Trump-donor intermediaries like that!

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        Good point. All my phones have been UPS or FedEx, now that I think about it.

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          That’s probably more due to battery shipping restrictions IIRC

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        The Chinese are more clever than the clowns. They probably have a plan already.

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      iPhones go by UPS and FedEx.

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    Guh

    F in chat for my ultrasonic cleaner ಥ_ಥ

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    Ha this is actually going to hit the fentanyl trade pretty hard

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      Nah, the US exports will be untouched in this regard… Now, if any other country will still want our fenty, who knows? At this point, fenty from the US would be like getting your fenty from a corner dealer anyways.

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        Afaik most fentanyl in the US is produced in the US with raw materials imported like that from China

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