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My cheap tablet doesn't want to smoothly render the linked site but going by the comments, it doesn't answer its own question. I was, however, asking myself the
by wkjagt 3y ago
My cheap tablet doesn't want to smoothly render the linked site but going by the comments, it doesn't answer its own question. I was, however, asking myself the complete opposite question the other day, when browsing Aliexpress. Why are things so cheap? I think I know some of the answers (economy of scale, cheap labor) but still. I was looking for ESP32 related things, and I can get a very sophisticated, tiny little computer, delivered all the way from the other side of the world to my house (Canada) for the price of a coffee at Tim Hortons. So yeah, why are things so cheap?
- trobertson 3y agoIt's due to the Universal Postal Union, which is a UN agreement that governs the costs and subsidies associated with international shipping. The link below explains it well, but the gist is that China was rated to be a "poor" nation, whereas the USA was rated to be a "rich" nation. This rating essentially means that the USA is subsidizing packages shipped from China to the USA. Trump (in a rare moment of not being an idiot) threatened to withdraw from the agreement over the subsidies. He didn't, but the agreement did get amended, and packages from China will start becoming less subsidized (more expensive) by 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union#2019_Extraordinary_Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union#2019_Ex...
- alright2565 3y agoI've noticed they've started shipping packages via central Asian countries like Kazakhstan. I've assumed this is to work around this rate change.