...The reason it costs us 4x as much to ship small parcel 100 miles as it does for someone in China to send us the same parcel is because we are paying extra to subsidize what our governments lose on each parcel Chins sends to us....
I ttought it might bear repeating... On 6/18/18, Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:04:08 -0500, Jeffrey Birt wrote: > >> I meant to reply earlier when someone mentioned postage rates. If you >> are a glutton for punishment Google the 'International Postal Union' >> w.r.t. the subsidized shipping rates China gets on account of their >> 'third world' status. > > Thanks for this. I have been curious about the economics behind this, > but didn't know the right magic Google words to find out how it was > being achieved. > > -- > Regards, > Daryl Tester > Handcrafted Computers Pty. Ltd. >
