[–] 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.
[–] Im_with_her 3 points -1 points 2 points (+2|-3) ago (edited ago)
Great post! Drumpf is clueless as usual. it is good to see some smart, non racist, non homophobic, non anti-Semitic person on here. Keep posting the truth on this hateful website friend. We are getting through to these people on here. #RESIST #NOTMYPRESIDENT #BLM #LGBTQAIPK #NOWALLNOBAN #DIVERSITY
[–] Niggerfaggotjewkike 4 points 0 points 4 points (+4|-4) ago
What kind of asshole post huffpo links to voat..?
[–] Tallest_Skil 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
lol ✡HuffPo✡ doesn’t matter here
[–] Gnostus 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Amazon does get special deals through the USPS for deliveries and massive cost cuts for their volume. If I was a gambling man I'd wager trump is going to leverage this into Amazon helping implement warehousing methods and technology they use into the USPS. trump has harped multiple times and used the word 'dumber' which is where i'm basing this off of. I would love to see bezoz update and streamline the USPS for """free""" and we can all reap the benefit of them riding free bucks off the USPS.
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[–] Gnostus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You're more right than I had realized. I tried to get tangible data and found a few articles along this line which ended up backing your claims. http://fortune.com/2017/07/16/amazon-postal-service-subsidy/
so citigroup did a analysis that they get 1.46$ subsidy, but it's not due to a special amazon only deal, but the pricing model and the fact they have such a high volume that the math looks particularly favorable toward amazon.
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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