> however we are subsidizing the shipping for most products on there with our tax dollars I want to point out that international postal rates are determined by

> however we are subsidizing the shipping for most products on there with our tax dollars I want to point out that international postal rates are determined by the UPU [1] which has existed since the late 1800s. It is not only Americans who are subsidizing shipping from China, most postal services in developed countries are paying to subsidize postal rates in less developed countries through the UPU. The fact that this system can be abused isn't even a new debate, it was occurring well before Trump arrived [2]. One can argue whether the UPU has been too slow to reclassify China relative to their development. But I think at the time of the conception of the UPU, and for much of the 20th century, before electronic communications became cheap and ubiquitous, it did serve a useful purpose. I imagine the UPU helped make sending postal mail to people in developing countries within financial reach, and I would also think contributed toward the development of postal systems in some of these countries. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union [2] http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/united-nations-subsidy-chinese-shipping/ http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/united-nations-subsidy-chinese...