Actually it is more sophisticated than that. The e-packet delivery system is a deal between China and the US. The packages are collected and sorted in china by US zip code and delivered to the final post office. The US post office skips the normal sorting and shipping and saves some money. Kind of the way bulk mail is sent. Also the US post office saves money because the tracking information data entry is done in China and sent to the US postal computer system electronically. It pushes some of the manual work, except the "last mile delivery" onto the sender. They also send the packages in batches so that many packages are moved at once. Like palletized fright.
The down side is that it can take a few days, maybe two weeks for a batch to accumulate in China before it ships. Sometimes I luck out and get a package in three or four days, I guess because my package was the last one to fill the pallet. it's air freight, not on a ship. There is a private company that does something like this in India. They place first class US domestic postage on packages then place the packages on pallets and ship them to the US where the pallets are busted up and dropped in the US mail. So Indian companies can ship to the US for little more than the US domestic rate So really they CAN air freight a small padded envelope from China to California for a few cents because thousands of these are stuffed into one box So On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:50 AM, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 September 2016 at 09:20, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I can't see how the postage alone is that low. > > > Because they only need to get it on a ship, and then it is delivered for > free (at a loss) by your national mail delivery co. > It's meant to be a mutual arrangement, but it is far from fair at the > moment. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed > for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
