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[–] sore_ass_losers ago  (edited ago)

I know there's a huge issue in e-commerce: Thanks to bad deal postal subsidies, it's cheaper to ship stuff from China than domestically! So this puts domestic sellers at a disadvantage. This is definitely so with eBay, Ali Baba, not entirely sure how it works out in Amazon.

(Just FYI, this has long been used by Chinese scammers on eBay: 'Oh, you ordered an iPhone and we accidentally sent you an oven mitt? So sorry. Please return the oven mitt and we''ll promptly give you a complete refund.'

It's a scam because return shipping to China is prohibitive. I think PayPal finally added some protections, but it's an opt-in program.)

I added another comment explaining 'ePacket' elsewhere. Hopefully HuffPost losers have a sufficient grasp of economics to understand.

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[–] sore_ass_losers ago 

Surprise, President Trump is better informed than your paint huffing source. And another surprise, blame the Kenyan for another abyssmally bad deal:

'ePacket

In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service made special agreements with the national postal carriers of China and Hong Kong ... They called this shipping option the ePacket, and the rates are so low that it's cheaper to ship small parcels from China to an American city than it is to send that same parcel domestically. As Amazon’s Vice President of Global Policy Paul Misener pointed out:

“The cost to ship a one-pound package from South Carolina to New York City would run nearly $6; from Beijing to NYC: $3.66.

While sending that same one-pound package from New York City back to Beijing via USPS International Mail would cost in the ballpark of $50." '

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-usps-epacket-gives-postal-subsidies-to-chinese-e-commerce-merchants-to-ship-to-the-usa-cheap/#79ec910640ca