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- news@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35098148
At least 25 countries have decided to suspend package deliveries to the United States, as concern grows over the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs, a UN body said Tuesday.
The Trump administration said late last month that it will abolish a tax exemption on small packages entering the United States from August 29.
The move has sparked a flurry of announcements from postal services, including in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, India, Australia and Japan, that most U.S.-bound packages would no longer be accepted.
The United Nations’ Universal Postal Union said it had already been advised by 25 member countries that their postal operators “have suspended their outbound postal services to the U.S., citing uncertainties specifically related to transit services”.
It said the suspensions will remain in place until there is more clarity on how U.S. authorities plan to implement the announced measures.
The UPU did not provide a list of postal services it had heard from.
So the reason is not that they would need to pay more and don’t want to, but that nobody knows who to pay, what to pay, and how to pay. There is literally no way to send a package to the US today and know how much it will cost.
So this is not Trump being aggressive in negotiation, but just being incompetent.
He is actually extremely competent, if the goal is to destroy US’ status as a superpower.
That would explain why he had to check in with his FSB handler in Alaska last week.
Oh my God trump thinks he’s trading Alaska for Greenland. It just clicked.
But he forgot that Greenland has two cannons and 3 horses on it already.
Trump wants IOSS, just implemented in a week, somehow by someone else than America themselves, and made immediately mandatory.
And I want a Pilatus PC-12 for free with no maintenance costs, but life is more complicated than that.
TBM 960
He thrives off making everybody on edge with uncertainty, that’s why he won’t tell us WHEN he intends to invade Chicago and other big cities
Nonsense. People don’t want to pay. We had US customers refuse duties.
What really happened, the minimis has been removed, now everything has duties attached while before it was things over 800 dollars. No business is just going to “eat that cost”. It’s all being passed down. Express couriers will make it paid up front so most won’t notice it there… But cheap services? Customer has to pay it themselves. It’s all lack of understanding.
While the cheap service might be 10 dollars, you got to pay 50 dollars in duties in a weeks time. Vs say the 75 dollars express with duties baked in.
But US folk are kept in the dark about it. So they simply don’t understand how it works.
How would a foreign country collect this in behalf of the US? No system has been setup for this by the US.
EU, UK and others have systems in place to make this possible. The US hasn’t.
Unless UPS/DHL have been just pocketing our money, this money is being passed somewhere…
Its not part of my job HOW it’s paid, but it is figuring out HOW MUCH is being paid. And I can tell you, it is happening for these two couriers. Feel free to share your professional experience, if you have any.
Then probably there is a system in place between UPS/DHL and the US customs. But there is none available for the national postal organizations. I don’t think UPS is going to just open its computer systems for all possible countries to use.
(Also, DHL? Isn’t that the postal service of Germany? Germany’s postal service is listed as “Germany” in the above list. Are you sure DHL hasn’t suspended those shipments as well? If it hasn’t, then Germany shouldn’t be on the list!)
It’s still possible to ship DHL Express from Germany
https://group.dhl.com/en/media-relations/press-releases/2025/new-us-customs-regulations-temporary-restrictions-on-postal-goods-shipping-to-the-us-for-private-and-business-customers.html
The headline wouldn’t be as good if that were included though. 🤷🏻
That’s because DHL Express is DHL, and it’s possible to ship by DHL.
You’re talking about companies with offices in the US. I’m talking about foreign countries. E.g. Postnl (company without offices in the US).
This is not true. Ship with DHL, FedEx, or UPS.
…and pay a random amount of customs fees. Can be done, but can get quite crazy. It’s better to let the few big guys handle those shipments for now than 30 different organizations trying to set things straight with the US customs.
If what’s being evaluated is what’s best for the US, buy an alternative product from a US company or from a country that has figured out how to ship.
I don’t think those countries have figured out how to ship. They just ship and hope for the best. The package might be returned or it might get stuck, a way to pay might appear, some-something. They can also end up in trouble and getting fines for having delivered shipments to USA soil without paying customs duties beforehand. No way to know in advance what will happen.
Sending through them might work. And it might be that it sometimes does, sometimes doesn’t. Again, it’s a game of lottery.