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Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by dzhiurgis »

boopdewoop wrote: post #107
reaperman wrote: post #72

This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes. I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages…

ill buy em for ya mate, get them posted from Australia, It will just cost you $500 in postage fees.

Let's do it via New Zealand, it's $600 plus you wait about 6 months.

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by JohnBooty »

reaperman wrote: post #72

This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes. I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages…

Can you ship via non-USPS couriers? FedEx, etc?

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by dzhiurgis »

999900000999 wrote: post #29
xnx wrote: post #21

Bad for consumers, but seems like a very good thing for AMZN? Amazon won't have to compete against the much cheaper Temu, Aliexpress, Shein(?) etc.

Cheaper and better. This country is so painfully stupid. Now I have to pay 2x as much for inferior products, if not the same exact stuff imported by an American company. This alone is probably going to cost me about 1000$ to 2000$ per year. We literally don't make much most of this stuff in the US. For example I just ordered a guitar bag, 15$ direct from China. The same exact bag, made in the same exact factory is go…

Or it's going to save you a ton because you are not spending money on frivolous shit.

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by JohnBooty »

999900000999 wrote: post #119
reaperman wrote: post #72

This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes. I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages…

The obvious solution to this is to BUILD IT ALL IN AMERICA. And while waiting 15 years for that to become possible, just move that US based R&D to countries not ran by idiots. I blame myself for not immigrating earlier. I had a chance to move overseas for a least a year and I didn't.

I know it's absolutely not the point of your post and you don't mean 15 years as a literal prediction but I thought about it anyway and damn, 15 years is pretty optimistic. Think about how long it took China to become a manufacturing giant. It would take the US even longer to get back to that. The US would have to do what China did, with additional challenges such as:

- overcoming environmental regulations

- a more disjointed government that changes hands every 4 or 8 years

- competition from, well, China

- US dollar making exports very challenging because of strength relative to yuan

etc

it would take, honestly, more like 30-50 years and/or a true forcing function like a world war (heaven forbid)

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by suraci »

nico wrote: post #96

[flagged]

i'm very focus to observe which certian topics were missing in HN

that's one of my habit since I live in a country with highly censorship

And base what I observed

some topics i cares were not popped up - i.e trump's meeting with Nethanyahu

some topics i interested were flagged - i.e 'Trade War Heats Up After Trump Orders Tariffs and ...'

i feel it's kind of creepy since i don't think there's a censorship supervisor in HN like where i came from, or is there any?

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by soganess »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #115
reaperman wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm worried more about the prototypes my R&D department is designing in partnership with Chinese contractors and fabrication facilities. We manufacture the final products here in the USA, but a LOT of components we air-mail from China. A huge percentage of the nation's R&D efforts (for DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING) is going to be completely and utterly fucked if they can't rush-deliver niche items from China. This is a dis…

I doubt you were using USPS before for those, so your company shouldn’t be affected unless this affects private shipping companies as well.

Honest question, why? USPS is cheap. Is there something special about a stack of blank PCBs (or ICs, or caps, or whatever) that precludes USPS from shipping them? I know they are weird about batteries, but everything else, right?

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by Volundr »

suraci wrote: post #126
nico wrote: post #96

[flagged]

i'm very focus to observe which certian topics were missing in HN that's one of my habit since I live in a country with highly censorship And base what I observed some topics i cares were not popped up - i.e trump's meeting with Nethanyahu some topics i interested were flagged - i.e 'Trade War Heats Up After Trump Orders Tariffs and ...' i feel it's kind of creepy since i don't think there's a censorship supervisor i…

Usually it's user flags. There's more than enough Trump supporters that between them and the folks who will flag anything political that it takes a HUGE number of upvotes to overcome that.

Technically @dang does have mod control to remove things as well as prevent user flags from suppressing something. As far as I know the second power is used much more commonly, to prevent something controversial but clearly on-topic from being supressed, but clearly I'm not @dang so take that with a grain of salt.

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

HideousKojima wrote: post #61
mcphage wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If the economic hurt this causes to China is enough to drastically reduce the flow of fentanyl into the US What if the economic hurt this causes to China drastically increases the flow of fentanyl in the US?

Then block all trade outright with China if they show themselves willing to be so openly belligerent.

Illegal fentanyl is already legally blocked, but somehow still gets in. This is like making drug smuggling illegal, yes, we can do that, we do that, but for some reason the drugs are still smuggled in.
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