The headline is updated on the article itself; USPS has resumed accepting such packages.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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republicans are so fucking stupid
USPS also lost a major revenue source
That's probably part of the plan. They want the post office gone to make room for private companies. Fuck all the people that live in remote areas where it isn't profitable to have mail I guess.
Which the stupid Republicans will use to continue to try to privatize something that should never have been privatized and should never be privatized The Republicans are the Nazis now and they need to be stopped
Unless someone puts a stop to them, we're the nazis now.
How did Bezos let this happen? Didn’t he buy his way into the administration for reasons?
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Is there a way to just automate this with a bot or something?
A huge number of users block bots
Some brilliant entrepreneurs have surely already started repackaging businesses in Canada and Mexico.
No so, from the article:
Daniel, the owner of a trucking company based in Alberta, Canada, who asked to only use his first name for privacy reasons, tells WIRED that two of his company’s trucks were turned away at the US border in New York and Montana today because they contained packages originally from China. After speaking with a US Customs and Border Protection agent in Montana, the company was able to get a third truck into Washington state by removing all packages from China, Daniel says.
Yeeees, and the idea is to repackage the items so that the packages are not originally from China. Now it's a Canadian export!
The way I read it, the entrepreneur is Bezos - he has his own planes etc. and does not need USPS. You have to buy Chinese stuff from him now. (I have not researched the subject in depth - this is just my take on the headline)
Bezos would still be subject tot he same import tariffs, the same Customs issues.
The way I read it is they just created a huge new workload for Customs without funding the resources to do it. Unless we make huge changes to how sites like Amazon works, now Customs needs to have an input in every one of the millions of packages directly sent from over seas every day.
USPS is smart to say there’s no way to make it work all of the sudden, but it ought to affect everyone.
….. I see a more recent post that some form of sanity prevailed. If we’re going to instigate trade wars out of spite, let’s at least have a transition where we can try to figure out how to make it work
might be safer to do it from Cuba at least there you know what bullshit you'll be dealing with next month.
Want your package from chaina? Pay the tariffs!
~...then very humbly ask the Chinese government to refund you those tariff costs....~