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>Yes, the United States and, in a roundabout way, the U.S. taxpayer is footing the bil How can this be? I thought usps was self sufficient?
Internal rates have gone up for USPS customers to subsidize Chinese vendors. American taxpayers are generally the consumers of the USPS. They are still self-sufficient.
The article mentions E-packet rates apply to packages less than 36" in length and less than 2 kg (4.4 lbs). What are the rates like for packages that exceed these dimensions? Are US-based e-commerce sellers any safer if they sell larger items?
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The problem is that you don't know who has plugged in a death trap transformer about to explode into flames in the apartment below yours, not to mention the numerous other ways that mains appliances can be unsafely wired.
I also avoid buying stuff that takes mains voltage. But is the risk that they'll "explode into flames" a real concern? All house fires I seem to read about are a result of other factors (stove burners not closed, heating devices near flammable stuff, etc).
>Yes, the United States and, in a roundabout way, the U.S. taxpayer is footing the bil How can this be? I thought usps was self sufficient?
part of the reason stamp prices keep going up.
The lighter blue line is in May 2016 cents.
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> although I think the internal rates are too high They would probably be cheaper if they weren't subsidizing postal rates for other countries. I find it amusing when you have a problem on AliExpress and the seller suggests you mail it back to them. Unless the product has a very high value it almost always costs more than the product's value to send it back to China. Luckily AliExpress customer service seems to reali…
Hint if you check out paypal you can get a free return postage for your item, its just hidden away on the web-site but they offer it.
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Hint if you check out paypal you can get a free return postage for your item, its just hidden away on the web-site but they offer it.
Is this with paypal everywhere or just through ebay?
Pay with your PayPal account and we can refund your return shipping costs if you need to send anything back – up to $45 per return and 8 returns each year.
Compared with the service’s losses of $5 _billion_ this doesn’t strike me as an actual outrage.
