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I literally linked the price sheet showing that it's wrong, did you not read my comment? >Combined with China subsidizing shipping for export-based businesses,
by ikeboy 7y ago
I literally linked the price sheet showing that it's wrong, did you not read my comment?
>Combined with China subsidizing shipping for export-based businesses, it was generally cheaper for a business in Shenzen to ship small/light products by post than for an American business to ship an equivalent product by USPS across the street.
Please back this up with examples.
- gamblor956 7y agoThere were more than a dozen other comments with examples when I posted my original comment, and each of those examples has supporting comments. Additionally, there is the NPR report cited in the parent confirming the disparity in shipping costs (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/episode-857-the-postal-illuminati https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...). Unless you're saying the NPR got it wrong? You linked to a price sheet for US shippers. Chinese shippers don't pay those rates. They pay Chinese shipping rates (which I can't provide an authoritative example of because they're negotiated on a vendor basis), and the terminal fee. In many cases, China Post covers the terminal fee and/or all shipping costs for strategic regions, such as for vendors located in Special Economic Zones. The important thing though is that the terminal fee for Chinese shippers is lower than the lowest postal fee for US shippers.
- ikeboy 7y agoMy comment was calling out the NPR for repeating an incorrect claim, yes. Yes, Chinese shippers pay different rates. NPR claimed to ship a mighty mug across the street for a US shipper would cost $6.30, when the actual cost would be about a third of that.