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These countries are benefiting way more from us than from them. China destroyed our economy. Its on thing to have manufacturing there, another thing that they destroy our importers by bypassing them altogether and shipping their items directly into the states with subsidized shipping from us!
Withdraw I say, quicker the better and don’t allow them to have a single rate that is better then citizens
To little to late as far as I am concerned. They had a chance to change all of this last September when they held a special meeting and decided to table it for another 2 years because they did not want to upset China. China pays the same shipping cost to the US as Gabon does which is ridiculous at this point in time. The USPS loses at least $0.50 on every E-packet delivered in the US and believe it or not, that E-packet costs China more than they could have paid per the UPU costs. The USA submitted their withdrawal from this joke of an organization last October and it takes a year to be effective so this is just a last minute effort by China to bypass what Trump is doing to them. The Chinese rates will be at least the same as it costs us to ship a small package to China, which is $10 for something like 4 ounces.
The Chinese government may still subsidize the cost for their companies but at least that should make it so that the USPS can stop killing us with our domestic rates like they are currently doing. I am aware that it will have a drastic effect on the International shipments and sales, but I am tired of having to subsidize all of these other countries cheap shipping costs just to ship and item in my own country. If somebody wants to buy something from another country they should pay what the true cost for shipping is, not what the UPU decides as they have now shown that they are also politically motivated and scared of what China will do to their own economies next.