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Shipping something from Germany to Argentina cost €3.70 recently; the same thing (a large padded envelope, about 400g) would appear to cost $7-8 if from Chicago
by Arnt 7y ago
Shipping something from Germany to Argentina cost €3.70 recently; the same thing (a large padded envelope, about 400g) would appear to cost $7-8 if from Chicago to New York. If that's unfair, who's at fault?
- defertoreptar 7y agoPart of the reason interstate shipping is high is due to the fact that the USPS must ship below cost on these kind of international packages. One subsidizes the other.
- Arnt 7y agoDo you think you could estimate that part of the reason? "Part of the reason" could mean 1%, or equally well 99%. EDIT: I ask because the Chicago-NY price is >100% above German international rates. >100% is a big number and German prices are high to begin with. That makes "part of" too fuzzy for my taste.
- ncarroll 7y agoThat's interesting. Before about January of 2019, I was able to ship for about those rates to the U.S. Recently, I took an envelope to the German post office and was informed that the Global Postal Union has barred shipping of goods in envelopes at postal instead of package prices. I pay €16,- minimum whether in an envelope or a box but can send up to 2 kg of goodies.
- Arnt 7y agohttps://www.deutschepost.de/de/b/briefe-ins-ausland/warenpost-international.html https://www.deutschepost.de/de/b/briefe-ins-ausland/warenpos...
- pnw_hazor 7y agoGermany privatized its postal service and now has one of the best postal services in the world. DHL is the German postal service. Meanwhile, the US Postal service is a quasi-government agency that is predictably a mess. On one hand it is supposed to be self-sufficient but on the other hand it is burdened with federal agency restrictions or limitation. And, it distorts the mail market in general by having a government granted monopoly on regular mail.