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Sharlintoday at 4:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Shipping is also subsidized by all of us on this end. International postage agreements were never intended to cover a massive unidirectional deluge of low-value packages. The costs of all the additional logistics are ultimately externalized to the taxpayer, and China totally exploits this. It’s exactly the reason the EU set a tariff for low-value parcels in particular.


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behringertoday at 4:18 PM

It's not hardly an exploit when the taxpayer is the one benefiting

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