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spyderqueen:
vaspider:
levynite:
dorkilybeautiful:
deadgodjess:
whyyoustabbedme:
It’s like ending network neutrality/fair peering arrangements for postage, basically??
Uuuuh this not good.
What the cockening fuck.
Well there goes my once in a while purchase from the US considering I currently pay 80 ringgit for shipping on average.
This is actually very bad for FedEx and UPS. They rely a lot on the USPS for last-mile delivery. Like, this is screwed up, but it’s going to hit all the shipping companies.
And … there’s actually a lot about this that is and has been screwed up. It’s often cheaper to ship a package from China to New York York within the MidWest bc the USPS is held to unrealistic rates for delivering packages that come from overseas.
When the overseas rates were set, most overseas packages were documents - a letter from home, etc. Now the explosion of ecommerce has broken a system that used to work, because it was never meant to handle boots and backpacks, just letters and legal documents.
It needs to be fixed. The USPS is currently shouldering way too much of the cost of delivering packages from overseas, and they usually do last-mile delivery for a lot of ecommerce deliveries for UPS and FedEx.
Is the Trump administration doing this stupidly? Yes. It… it isn’t… it doesn’t work the way the prior comments say, though, nor why.
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spyderqueen:
vaspider:
levynite:
dorkilybeautiful:
deadgodjess:
whyyoustabbedme:
It’s like ending network neutrality/fair peering arrangements for postage, basically??
Uuuuh this not good.
What the cockening fuck.
Well there goes my once in a while purchase from the US considering I currently pay 80 ringgit for shipping on average.
This is actually very bad for FedEx and UPS. They rely a lot on the USPS for last-mile delivery. Like, this is screwed up, but it’s going to hit all the shipping companies.
And … there’s actually a lot about this that is and has been screwed up. It’s often cheaper to ship a package from China to New York York within the MidWest bc the USPS is held to unrealistic rates for delivering packages that come from overseas.
When the overseas rates were set, most overseas packages were documents - a letter from home, etc. Now the explosion of ecommerce has broken a system that used to work, because it was never meant to handle boots and backpacks, just letters and legal documents.
It needs to be fixed. The USPS is currently shouldering way too much of the cost of delivering packages from overseas, and they usually do last-mile delivery for a lot of ecommerce deliveries for UPS and FedEx.
Is the Trump administration doing this stupidly? Yes. It… it isn’t… it doesn’t work the way the prior comments say, though, nor why.
Reblogging again for more commentary
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