Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday.
The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, after the U.S. eliminated the so-called “de minimis exemption” for lower-value parcels.
Eighty-eight postal operators have told the UPU that they have suspended some or all postal services to the United States until a solution is implemented with regard to U.S.-bound parcels valued at $800 or less, which had been the cutoff for imported goods to escape customs charges.
“The global network saw postal traffic to the U.S. come to a near-halt after the implementation of the new rules on Aug. 29, 2025, which for the first time placed the burden of customs duty collection and remittance on transportation carriers or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency-approved qualified parties,” the UPU said in a statement.
The UPU said information exchanged between postal operators through its electronic network showed traffic from its 192 member countries — nearly all the world countries — had fallen 81% on Aug. 29, compared to a week earlier.
Next Up: “Hey, do we even NEED a postal service?”
They’re going to privatize it
And then we get to hear the endless litany of “hey why is shipping 20x more expensive now here in Bumfuck Montana?” And blaming Biden for it
yea he wants dejoys company to takeover, hes been angling for it for years. Although its wierd that dejoy barely did anything under biden.
That’s what these assholes have been saying ever since they got on AOL in the mid-90s - “hey, email and FedEx can do everything USPS does, why don’t we just get rid of it?”
USA will soon be Americas equivalent to North Korea…
Trump got 11 holes in one the last time he played golf.
This comment has me wondering: does the average NK citizen believe the bullshit their government says about the Kims, or do they know it’s bullshit too?
Straight to jail
Look at Christians; the idea of an invisible sky daddy is laughable but being taught that one exists since you were a child is a powerful drug.
My guess is that a good half of North Koreans would defend the regime regardless of how unbelievable it is just like in most other countries.
Look at Christians; the idea of an invisible sky daddy is laughable but being taught that one exists since you were a child is a powerful drug.
Exactly this - and these people are steeped in options, were they so to choose to make use of them to educate themselves, but they absolutely will not.
Same goes for conservatives in the West - they are surrounded by plenty of options if they have an Internet connection or a local library and a willingness to break the spell. But they sure as fuck won’t; they’ll listen to endless hours of hate radio and Faux News.
Imagine being somewhere where those options for truth are actively policed and shut down and punished quite harshly for…
24/7 propaganda not just fox, younger people wants more heavy drugs like OAN, NEWSMAX, and right wing podcasters.
Do you think Trump supporters believe his bs?
Some of them, maybe not all, but some of them 100% believe everything coming from Trump and his administration. That’s how cults and a lot of organized religion work, people are literally groomed into this style of belief where they must prove they have true, unwavering faith in it despite the contradictions and evidence otherwise.
YES, they voted for him 3 times. plus farmers voted for him, despite his tariffs had permantly ruined them in his first term , and its happening again. they will double down, or say they never voted for him.
There is generational brainwashing in North Korea. Those people have no access to other information and are punished for questioning any information the state provides. So most likely they do believe it, they have no other information.
The ruling elite has access to more information so they most likely know it;s bullshit but it’s benefiting them so why say otherwise.
A generation is a very short time and it starts by meddling with education. Russia has done it and USA is seemingly well at it
Some. A good portion know it’s bullshit, but play along lest they get sent for reeducation.
THEY ARE TOTally brainwashed by the DEAR leader, so yes. only the ones that defect, if they can might see better horizons.
Taco is so great he doesn’t even defecate since he’s a perfect being.
America has been closer to being north Korea for longer than most people think.
russia actually. texas is mostly there , and florida is closing in second.
without being propped up by china, so a worst version of north korea. i think more like hybrid of russia and NK.
Hot take: ending Chinese drop-shipping for cheap junk from Temu, etc. might actually be a good thing.
Ending all parcels from 88 countries is not,
Yeah cheap temu crap is one thing. Localised products from other nations just won’t happen on the individual level and will require a USA company to act as a middle man. In Australian news, we keep hearing about companies that are losing a large chunk of trade because of this. Most are small businesses with niche products; emu leather, kangaroo products, eucalyptus oil, etc. All things that are only made in Australia.
Even having a middle man won’t help. The postal services are not engaging until there is a system in places and clarity.
Sure, mass shipping can work, but is cost prohibitive for all niche products, like you’ve mentioned unless they have a giant distribution deal.
They don’t want to get the ultimate bill for the duties owed. They don’t usually keep customer information, so it needs to be collected up front or not at all.
Millions of small retail or craft businesses now out of business: “haha so true bestie!”
not everyone buys from temu, some chinese products for asian business owners need the other stuff especially around asian related foods ingredients.
What’s interesting is I believe the postal service was losing money on Chinese Epackets.
Isn’t it misleading to say they are losing money when they are funded by taxpayer dollars?
The USPS has been self funded for quite some time
I thought the USPS was funded through usage fees/stamps.
USPS is self funded, and only until a couple years ago now were we losing money. Once retirement prefunding was repealed we started making money again
no wonder the gop was pissed, they had been planning for decades for it to cripple the USPS, and why dejoy probably wasnt doing much under biden.
