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I'm worried more about the prototypes my R&D department is designing in partnership with Chinese contractors and fabrication facilities. We manufacture the fina
by reaperman 2y ago
I'm worried more about the prototypes my R&D department is designing in partnership with Chinese contractors and fabrication facilities. We manufacture the final products here in the USA, but a LOT of components we air-mail from China.
A huge percentage of the nation's R&D efforts (for DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING) is going to be completely and utterly fucked if they can't rush-deliver niche items from China. This is a disaster.
And it's not just R&D! If you have a big factory here in the USA but you need a rare part/tool/electrical component to fix the factory - often the OEM you buy it from will ship it from their China warehouse and it'll arrive in 1-4 days.
As a person who works in domestic manufacturing, this seems really, really bad for domestic manufacturing.
- bb88 2y agoI would say so, but there are options right? FedEx? DHL?
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI doubt you were using USPS before for those, so your company shouldn’t be affected unless this affects private shipping companies as well.
- soganess 2y agoHonest question, why? USPS is cheap. Is there something special about a stack of blank PCBs (or ICs, or caps, or whatever) that precludes USPS from shipping them? I know they are weird about batteries, but everything else, right?
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoUSPS is cheap! Much cheaper to send from China to the USA than the other way around d for some weird reason. But I’m guessing a business who was interested in air mailing parts and prototypes..isn’t interested in value.
- BikiniPrince 2y agoIt’s cheaper because USPS has been subsidizing the costs. That’s why a lot of small packages were shipped with usps.
- transcriptase 2y agoAlso cheap because the entire world subsidizes China-to-elsewhere shipping via the UPU continuing to classify them a “developing country”.
- School-Cotton 2y agoWhy would China not count as a developing country?
- throwaway290 2y agohttps://thehill.com/homenews/house/3921082-house-unanimously-passes-bill-to-work-to-remove-chinas-developing-country-label/ https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3921082-house-unanimously... > “Their economy size is second only to that of the United States. [The] United States is treated as a developed country, so should PRC,” Kim said. “And is also treated as a high-income country in treaties and international organizations, so China should also be treated as a developed country.” And CCP also usually paints PRC superior to US in everything so it's kind of their choice too...
- School-Cotton 2y agoWhich country is poorer: Luxembourg or Kenya? Luxembourg has a lower GDP, after all.
- throwaway290 2y ago> PPP-adjusted GDPs per capita ftfy. on which btw China scores higher than Mexico and World Bank classifies Mexico as an upper-middle-income economy And the answer is Luxembourg by a mile.
- bb88 2y agoThis is kinda funny. I ordered a bunch of blank PCB's and it was inspected (opened) by ICE. It had their green tape trying to close it up (badly) after they opened it. I think they're looking for things that can't be X-rayed or scanned.
- throwfgtpwd234 2y agoThe point is Jeff Bezos wanted AliExpress shutdown because $$$$.
- throwfgtpwd234 2y agoThat's not the point. The point is the USPS is abusively discriminating against trade for political purposes.