"Effective Feb. 4, the Postal Service will temporarily suspend only international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts until further notice. Note the flow of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong will not be impacted." about.usps.com/newsroom/ser... - ThreadSky

bungdan.bsky.social • 21 days ago

"Effective Feb. 4, the Postal Service will temporarily suspend only international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts until further notice. Note the flow of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong will not be impacted." https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/suspension-of-inbound-parcels-from-china-and-hong-kong.htm

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discoveryattorney.net•20 days ago

Is Jeff Bezos sad?

sfshinigami.bsky.social•21 days ago

corporate donors not gonna like that

dvdnvl.bsky.social•21 days ago

This should probably be bigger news?

dvdnvl.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ah, now it’s big news…

krisve.bsky.social•20 days ago

Nice job!

bungdan.bsky.social•21 days ago

I can't tell when the statement went up. But my guess is less than 90 minutes ago. And we have a small fraction of the honest-to-goodness reporters we had 20 years ago.

dvdnvl.bsky.social•21 days ago

I’m perplexed they made this announcement via usps website given the macro negative effects this could have if it really means what it says

bdk.bsky.social•21 days ago

ALL OF YOUR TEMU BELONG TO US

stradicat.bsky.social•21 days ago

🎶FEELS LIKE A DREAM
FEELS LIKE MAGIC🪄 🎶

wakeuplittleme.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wtf

starlightwishes.bsky.social•20 days ago

Stores like Amazon are gonna love this!

judithmedia.bsky.social•21 days ago

Americans about to get a vivid lesson on the flow of consumer good in a global economy. Also, happy Lunar New Year to all!

patriciaanne.bsky.social•21 days ago

Awe darn my fan mail...
Not sure the last time I got mail but damn

mykel11.bsky.social•21 days ago

Why is this a thing? He put tariffs on the shipments and now wants to stop them completely. Trump has no clue about international trade.

bungdan.bsky.social•21 days ago

My GUESS is this is about stopping small scale trade until a tariff extraction system can be put in place. That guess is based on some kind of logic guiding them. It could also just be the rabid squirrels in their brains. Go know.

mykel11.bsky.social•20 days ago

No knowing with this crew of idiots

lemurdillo.bsky.social•20 days ago

I suspect this is about the de minimis exemption. A person could order up to $800 in goods directly from overseas & not pay customs fees. It's not well publicized, but Trump got rid of it last week, although it remains unclear to me what the current state of things is.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/02/trump-tariffs-take-aim-at-trade-loophole-used-by-temu-shein.html

mykel11.bsky.social•20 days ago

I didn’t know that. So once again trump is lowering the cost of goods for the people who use Temu and SHEIN, not the wealthy but those who can least afford additional cost. Just kidding, putting duty on low cost shipments to the lower and middle class.

lemurdillo.bsky.social•20 days ago

The point of the exception is that if I order, i dunno, a $50 item off Etsy from Canada, is it really worth it to inspect it, and every other similar package, and charge import duty? It's certainly not cost-effective.

lemurdillo.bsky.social•20 days ago

Reminds me of the time I was in rural Norway and had to go to the hospital. Technically, I had a bill for services, but they sent me on my way without paying because "It isn't worth our time and effort to actually bill you."

flicksfan.bsky.social•20 days ago

Same here, the result of dropping that is the cost of collecting and handling the many low value customs fees.

ozarkgraphic.bsky.social•20 days ago

Voting squirrels.

jess16.bsky.social•21 days ago

Did the Stock Market tank yet ???

jess16.bsky.social•21 days ago

What is this about ??

ragepandapajamas.bsky.social•21 days ago

How much you wana bet Bezos won't be affected. Amazon feeling the boycotts? 🤔

jillrachelle.bsky.social•21 days ago

Sure hope nobody needs a new cell phone this year.

acjay.com•20 days ago

Those don't make it here via postal service

justzuki.bsky.social•21 days ago

The fuck is this Chinese Exclusion Act of 2025-ass shit?

law16118.bsky.social•21 days ago

There is a lot of Amazon orders that will be lost.

redwedgex.wtf•21 days ago

Amazon literally has their own airline. They can fly their own shit in.

flicksfan.bsky.social•20 days ago

They don't use it to Australia; Amazon market place stuff comes via China Post/Australia Post (AP being our USPS) Bezos won't be pleased.

mocena.bsky.social•21 days ago

Wait until the masses hear their Temu shipments won’t make it through customs and they ain’t getting that money back.

dinorocket.bsky.social•21 days ago

Eh, they'll just blame trans DEI Canadians or some such bullshit.

ljanel.bsky.social•20 days ago

Shit. I actually do have a package or two ordered from China.

beatissima.bsky.social•21 days ago

This might be the thing that triggers a Boomer blue wave.

mocena.bsky.social•21 days ago

Wait until they find out that even stuff they get on Amazon sometimes comes direct from overseas.

pyrholidon.bsky.social•21 days ago

Well that’s one way to destroy the economy.

muttgoalie1909.bsky.social•21 days ago

Sure hope USPS or the US government is going to refund all those people who won't be getting their packages now- oh, who the fuck am I kidding, they won't 🙃

bradykenda.bsky.social•21 days ago

That is sure going to piss off people who ordered from Temple

bradykenda.bsky.social•21 days ago

Temp Temu, you damned autocorrect.

krisve.bsky.social•20 days ago

It’s ok you did your best and people will be pissed

ljanel.bsky.social•20 days ago

And SHEIN. I am pissed.

safmr.bsky.social•20 days ago

They are both unethical companies contributing to the absurd amount of pollution and waste we're creating. Use this as a sign to look elsewhere.

hardwarelust.bsky.social•21 days ago

Based on what? Is that even legal to begin with?

bungdan.bsky.social•21 days ago

No idea. And legal. Stupid, but probably legal, and rolled out in the most destructive way possible. It will be rolled back in a day or two with claims of Trump's great He-Man powers having extracted concessions from China. But go know.

stevensokol.com•21 days ago

That’s some seriously tortured English. Way to go USPS.

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