Chris, >>It pushes some of the
manual work, except the "last mile delivery" onto the sender. Where do you get your e-packet info from? That's not accurate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/the-postal-service-is-losing-millions-a-year-to-help-you-buy-cheap-stuff-from-china/ http://www.practicalecommerce.com/columns/hand-painted-ecommerce/86294-China-based-merchants-ship-to-U-S-for-free Dave On 9/26/2016 6:09 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > 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 >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
