lol… Don’t you just love it when exactly what you knew would happen, starts to happen – SEE PREDICTION HERE.
This is, quite simply, a super-blast of Trumpian fuel that will overwhelm the DC outrage machine’s capacity to keep up. Exhausted media heads will explode as the machine’s narrative engineers struggle -against all odds- to keep the system operating…. “Stop the Hammering“.. lol
WASHINGTON DC – The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday night that it is temporarily suspending accepting packages sent from China and Hong Kong until further notice.
The suspension is effective immediately, the USPS said. Letters and flats are not included in the suspension, it said.
The postal service did not provide a reason for the suspension or say how long it expects it to last.
Earlier Tuesday, Beijing announced it would counter President Trump’s new 10% tariff on Chinese goods with retaliatory tariffs of its own. China said starting next Monday it would implement a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas products along with a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery and large-engine cars imported from the U.S.
Mr. Trump’s tariff increase also eliminated a duty-free exemption for low-value packages coming from China. The “de minimis” exemption allows goods valued at $800 or below to come into the United States without paying duties or certain taxes. (read more)
Remember when President Trump established the “External Revenue Service?” … It’s all connected and sequential.
Almost everyone will miss, in part because outcomes appear in a sequence that few care to follow, but buried in the Trump tariff Executive Order {SEE HERE} you will discover something. As the unofficial Deep State strategist, and the self-appointed misfit explainer of stuff, lol, we will explain:
So, Canada and Mexico get 25% tariffs, but China only 10%. Why? The secret is in that subsection “(h)” when it talks about de minimis treatment. Essentially, what President Trump is doing is levying a much more massive import tax, and possible confiscation impact on the core source of fentanyl (and other illegal) substances.
Approximately a billion packages are estimated to enter the USA under the cover of the de minimis exemption. This is where the enforcement mechanism of the “External Revenue Service” combines with the tariff approach and the “state of emergency.” President Trump imposed the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a nearly 50-year law that gives the president sweeping power to impose sanctions after declaring an emergency.
Now the billion packages, mostly from China, Mexico and Canada are going to be subjected to review and interception.
The de minimis loophole comes from back in the 1930s. The idea back then was, say you went on a vacation to Paris, you shouldn’t have to file customs paperwork or pay taxes if you decided to ship some little Eiffel Tower statues to your friends back home.
Congress in 2015 then raised the de minimis threshold from $200 to $800. However, the e-commerce world exploded, and Chinese companies began using the de minimis loophole to ship cheap goods (ex. Temu and Shein) into the USA direct to consumers without paying any customs duty.
It was reported last year that the U.S. was on track to receive a billion packages through the de minimis loophole that aren’t taxed and don’t have customs slips saying what they are. Making matters worse, illegal items are slipping through the cracks, including, knockoffs, unsafe items and even chemicals used to make fentanyl. The worst abuser that exploits this de minimis loophole is, by far, China.
President Trump can require a customs and duty declaration stating what is in every package and subsequently collect tariffs and duties.
Put it all together and President Trump is executing an Emergency Act executive order, plus the imposition of a tariff review, and simultaneous interception of de minimis packages previously unchecked as the enforcement mechanism. All executed by the External Revenue Service.
President Trump has got them surrounded, and the scope of it has the media so overwhelmed they cannot quite put it together.
Almost too much winning….
…. Almost!
Today, “no rush“…. This guy cracks me up.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he is in “no rush” to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping despite expectations they would meet the same day, as trade tensions increase after both countries imposed tariffs early in the morning.
“We’ll speak to him at the appropriate time. I’m in no rush,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office less than a day after both countries exchanged new trade curbs. The leaders of the world’s largest economies were unable to reach an agreement to stave off Trump’s threat to impose 10 percent duties on Chinese imports before midnight Monday, even after Trump opted to delay 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada. (link)
Hardest hit, Walmart and Amazon. Personally I’m tired of all that cheap Chinese crap.
I think Shein and Temu are hardest hit.
Also Ali Express. (formerly known as AliBaba). Huge direct-to-consumer from China sources.
YAHOO….SHUT THEME DOWN
I had to look up SHEIN and Temu .
I found this article about the EU also cracking down on cheap Chinese imports.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/temu-shein-targeted-eu-cracks-down-unsafe-ecommerce-imports-2025-02-05/
I have no idea what shein and temu are.
at this point in my life, it’s clear that it wont make a difference to me either. Lol
You know I’ve noticed several items not on the shelf at my local Walmart. Havnt seen this in years
Shelves empty is also caused by bold, in your face shop lifting. Rampant. Rising.
Walmart is where my daughter gets the ADHD meds for my kid. I pray Trump knows what he is doing on this one. Not long ago, we were warned about China and the drugs they supply to Americans.
After covid, can we really trust that China is even delivering those drugs at the quality level you need? A few years ago they had lead in their cheap dental restorations.
ADHD? Get a Bemer for your child.
How can your daughter also be getting things for “your kid”? Are they siblings?
i digress…
it’s not President Trump’s fault that medicines come from china. The time for praying on this topic (of medicines) was decades ago.
besides, what President Trump did is for tiny boxes of things that get accumulated together to fill a shipping container.
it is NOT about what everyone is talking about downthread (like the giant loads of very high amounts of crap that gets distributed nationally to wal mart, $1.25 tree, etc).
Yup and Yup.
Walmart is already laying off staff and shrinking operations.
The Walton family is one of the biggest supporters of the illegal invasion.
They stand to lose tens of billions if most of their main customers are deported.
$1.25 store won’t have anything on the shelves either.
🤣
Guess they’ll have to change their name to $1.43 Store, now.
Heard a rumor…$1.75
I’ll bet ‘ol Sam Walton is calling to his kids from the grave, saying, “I told you so, you oughter’ave stayed with with MAGA”
🎯🎯🎯
Mr. Walton’s book is a good read too. He’d fly around in his little airplane with his dog, Old Roy.
He’d talk people into making commitments to produce products in the USA, so he didn’t have to import them. Too bad his kids weren’t as patriotic as he was.
Sam Walton has got to be spinning in his grave! He championed “US Made.”
As I recall. Wallyworld 1st in my neck of woods to have plastic covers over freezer goods when c19 came in to being. And masks everywhere.
And their Father is rolling in his grave over what his company has become. He was a proud American.
Walmart – full of non-English speaking people using EBT cards.
Your absolutely right! I live close to 2 Walmart’s and I have to drive an hour south to go to a Walmart that’s clean and I feel like I’m still in America!
Needless to say I don’t go very often.
…don’t forget the non-English speaking employees as well.
NEVER been a WM shopper. Despised WM. Comes into towns and shuts down ALL independent businesses.
Kudos to you. I finally stopped several years ago.
Agreed. I expect them to pay RINOs to put up a fight to keep their customer base & employees in the USA.
Hobby Lobby will take a hit as well. Every item they sell is from China, except textiles which mostly comes from India. I love that they are Christian owned company, but I hate that every item I would pick up, was made in China. I now try not to shop there.
Harbor Freight…..🤔 ?
No more free flashlights or cheezy tarps
I ALWAYS thought the cheap freebies ended up as landfill anyway, if not immediately, soon after, causing an actual environmental issue here.
While old school Sears Craftsman still work.
YES, EXACTLY!!! And let us not forget that a Sears Die Hard battery was THE battery to have in one’s car to make sure if it had a problem, the problem WASN’T the battery!
Unless it lived up to its name (and died hard without warning)–but at least then you knew it was the battery.
Agreed! 🤣
I still have my 1970 metal Craftsman jig saw.
Works like a charm
We still have a Sears Garage opener that my husband’s parents got us for Xmas in the 1970’s,still opening up our garage door everyday..
Like you said, old school Craftsman. Their new stuff is junk, and I would buy Pittsburg tool from Harbor Freight before I bought new Craftsman. Their ratchets are wretched.
I have a 1996 Sears Kenmore refrigerator (Whirlpool, made to Sears specifications)….My first problem with it was 3 months ago, it started failing but still manages to keep stuff cold…
My Mom took me with her to Sears frequently growing up, and their candy counter introduced me to white chocolate. After that, every time, she always knew the request was coming, and every time, she bought me a little piece. My parents were amazing people on SO many levels!!!
I remember getting cashews from Sears. They had a little counter with assorted nuts that kept them warm and salty. They would scoop them onto the scale then into the familiar striped bag. Delicious!!
Sweet memory. . .
Snap-On and Craftsman were always my favorite tools.
You can still find some Snap-On tools that are made in Kenosha Wisconsin, but they’ve outsourced a lot of their stuff to China and Taiwan.
Their tools from overseas aren’t really made by Snap-On, but they have the Snap-On logo on it.
They don’t give away free stuff anymore. People like me would go in there and buy one item, get 20% off on it and pick up whatever free stuff coupon item I had for the day. I got some great deals.
Reminds me, ditto with banks, and a toaster my Mom got lasted for years! Bet it wasn’t made in China.
Yep … “Pittsburgh Forge” brand … every time this native Yinzer sees that crap bearing my hometown’s name, I feel like puking.
I doubt they are receiving goods “De Minimus” – they use shipping containers for these large stores.
Just thinking the same thing. It only affects direct shipments to US consumers up to $800 each.
And this will be closed down in 3..2..1
I agree. I couldn’t understand why everyone loves Hobby Lobby. I bought a puzzle for a gift that was made in the USA there. Nothing else impressed me because it was the same imported junk that everyone else has.
Yes……..agreed
I agree. If I buy something via internet and it arrives with Made in China tag on it,it goes right back. Macys is big on not listing the country of origin on their website, but if it comes from China, it goes right back. Done and done. Their little fentanyl invasion has killed my fellow Americans. No more money for them! Ever.
Good essay on how China operates.
https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/why-i-hate-sun-tzu/
Excellent!
Cigarettes killed 480,000 Americans last year! Ban smoking!
With respect, tobacco and fentanyl are no where near the same level of lethality. Fentanyl can kill instantly on the first use, and, like meth, it addicts instantly. IMHO fentanyl is a weapon of war.
About 5 years ago or so – CBP officers starting getting special seminars on the dangers of fentanyl.
We were warned/advised to ALWAYS use gloves when searching a person/passenger or their bags/belongings.
The smallest amount of Fentanyl can cause an OD that can kill.
We learned how to administer Narcan, which can counteract the effects of Fentanyl. Of course, time is of the essence!
I’m sure other LEOs also had the same training.
It is very scary stuff.
I can’t stand it when food at our local grocery store isn’t marked for where it was grown. Cans will say where the company is located, but not where the contents were grown.
Hubby says if it doesn’t say, it was grown in China.
Don’t know if that’s true, but he’s been right about a lot of this “conspiracy” stuff for a very long time.
All countries need to re-learn how to be producers and consumers not just consumers. The break up of the old USSR taught that. Production was separated all over the country and Russian States had to begin producing for themselves.
Same but not many stores left to get crafting/hobby items.
It will for sure.
The device you used to post this is a product of the supply chain ecosystem centered on China.
Either made in China, or made with substantial China content in another country in the Asian hemisphere.
The US cannot do this. Period. The supply chain ecosystem is vast and the material highly sophisticated.
Most Americans are unaware of this, full of hubris. Talk is cheap. Meanwhile the China industrial/scientific power continues to increase, that’s REAL power, they control the strategic supply chain necessary for the US to function.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hubris
(PS – The US military is acutely dependent on China for electronics and rare earth metals. Go to war with China or Russia/China, see how long it lasts with that supply shut off. The rare earths might be shifted toward US-friendly sources, but the electronics source remains in Asia controlled by China supply chain. Even electronics assembled in the US require a substantial percentage of components sourced from China, and it would take decades to shift that to the US IF overall competencies were not so degraded here and IF the economics were favorable for corporations.)
Blame the greedy corporations. They moved all their companies but I’ve talked about this very thing for a long time now.
Part of it is/was greed, but part is the decline in competencies in the US as competencies increased in Asia.
The reasons for the US competencies decline are complex, but they include identity class quotas that started after The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which supplanted meritocracy.
The forced identity class “equity” cancer has metastasized to Stage 4. Can Trump save the patient in Hospice? How long would it take to clear the cancer and replace it with meritocratic competencies again? Before you answer, note that the entire education system is thoroughly rotten with incompetency, from daycare through K-12 and most college environments.
It is going to be a long hard slog. Lots of steps back as the DEI continues to cause problems.
No guarantee of victory. An example is the dire horrible education result in Tennessee. We had another school shooting and only 30% of the kids read and do math at grade level. What does our RINO Governor Lee do?
He calls a special session of the legislature for school vouchers…. We already had a small program that they do not publicize the results because there are no results. So Lee wants to expand it????
20,000 kids will get vouchers. But the Public Schools they leave will continue to get the money as if they were still enrolled? In a common sense look at this, It will double the cost with little improvement. Only a UniParty RINO could come up with something so nonsensical.
President Trump is going to close the Department of Education. The State of Tennessee should close its Department of Education too. Teachers need to get their students to read and do math or find a job they can perform.
You have my sympathy.
I think it is Gen Z that is reported to have a poor work ethic…that has to be conquered.
I don’t buy into that argument. Greedy corporations outsourcing work to foreign slave laborers to save a buck is more accurate. They fill American universities with foreign students for the same reason, putting American kids at the back of the admissions process because “diversity.”
It’s not about our work ethic.. ie “the jobs that Americans won’t do” spiel. It’s the fact that Americans require a living wage, and our jobs were outsourced instead to cheap, foreign laborers.
20 years ago my co-worker found a job closer to home, so the search was on for another co-worker.
My former co-worker was a baby boomer, like me. We both worked very hard, making sure everything was working well and all our customers were too.
When my employer filled her position as an IT Administrator with someone who was 20 years old and a transfer from the Help Desk who was “fully qualified” for the job I was fine with it. But on the first day of working together he told me, very braggadociously, that he had not done any work for months my heart sank.
I learned that first day he had no work ethic, and it never got any better as time went on.
But he was young and tall and all the old ladies loved him ’cause he liked to gossip with them, unlike the crabby old lady (me) who needed to get work done.
The only competencies China has are theft of intellectual property, espionage, and compliance.
China is a nation of people who do what they are told without question. This is why gain of function labs and the like are outsourced to China.
Yes. But the US govt did not discourage the outsourcing. In fact, via tax policy and other related policy, the US govt facilitated and encouraged it. And that facilitation and encouragement has only accelerated over the decades. The reality is, like with most things, we allowed this to happen.
Most people do not realize that the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries began in the early 60s. It likely began even before that, but it was clandestine prior to the early 60s when the US and Mexican govts struck an agreement (Maquiadora) that allowed US firms to build and run manufacturing plants just over the border, importing raw materials tax free, use cheap Mexican labor, and re-import to the U.S. tax free.
This was done under the guise of providing ‘aid’ to the impoverished regions of northern Mexico without directly sending them US taxpayer money.
“The reality is, like with most things, we allowed this to happen.”
Democrats made a decision to gut most of our manufacturing. The job loss was staggering. As Sundance says it was Wall Street trampling Main Street. It was Gradually and then Suddenly.
Never a story on TV or Newspapers about it. Gradually right under our eyes but we are too busy living our lives. Then we see Gary Indiana, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and the whole South hollowed out. We were never told about it and NEVER VOTED FOR IT. It was just a gift from the UniParty.
Going forward, we need a Free Press that is on the Side of the American People. X just might fill the bill. It is entertaining watching the employment grief of the TV news and Printed News. It would be great if they actually become Legacies and wind up on the slag heep of history.
I repair generators for a living. It surprises people to learn that great “legacy” equipment manufacturers have all moved their plants to China. The great German Deutz engines are made in China, down the last bolt and fastener. Including the engine blocks. The two large electric alternators, Newage and Marathon, are made completely in China. The Deutz components are shipped to Germany, then shipped to the US distributors, then to the local state dealers. Triple freight costs for a component before it gets into your hands.
Bingo, and the China quality has become first rate now.
I bought a generac 6500 several years ago, made in China. Top notch and affordable.
And with the industry comes science and engineering.
Wake up people.
When WMT hit the retail realm with a vengeance, their stuff came from Mexico and more recently, China….?
Somewhere in the mid 90’s, it was noted that Hillary Clinton was on the WMT board of directors…I am wondering if there aren’t trade deals from Bill’s time, that are now sunsetting And the Clintons have milked that cash cow and it is now dry?
Years ago, I worked with a fellow who had been an assistant General Manager at the GM plant in Linden, NJ.
He told me about the time he was sent down to the Mexican border to help set up a new assembly plant on the Southern side of the Rio Grande. The workers were paid something like
$0.50/hour.
Many were barely literate.
Could barely read or write Spanish.
So, they created a system where nearly Everything was color-coded.
The managers were Americano – the workers, Mexican.
Blame the Democrats. They made the trade rules and lowered the tariffs so all this stuff could flood in. Corporations adapt to the rules that government enacts. The guy behind the curtain is not a corporation it is government.
What most don’t care to know is that China selectively allowed American tech to build plants on the mainland then confiscated them and the tech in them, just ask IBM.
Really? Greedy corporations? Sure, of course they are. That is what they are designed to be. But Americans need to have a LOT more introspection before they blame others. Do you have some form of stock portfolio that includes some of theses “greedy corporations”? When your IRA or 401k loses value, what happens? You, or the fund manager lets the “greedy corporation” know that they must do better. They in turn fire your neighbor, family member or friend to cut costs and make a higher profit. Or maybe they outsource to China. I have seen the enemy and that enemy is US.
Greedy consumers also. Consumers vote for all the bells and whistles and higher pay for employees plus more free stuff to non-workers to support higher standards of living for everyone here in America. But those same consumer/voters refuse to buy from the corporations that produce goods in America due to the higher costs of employees.
China’s economy is not doing that well. I suspect it will only get worse for them if they are not able to sell their stuff to the largest consumer on the planet. What do you think?
How many Billion people live in the USA, Pyrran?
I thought there were roughly 350 Million – so the remaining 7 or so Billion people in the rest of the world get to purchase some of their output, I guess.
It is all about perspective.
It’s called growing pains and they refuse to address them. Every nation suffers them, some survive, others don’t.
Wholeheartedly agree. ‘Made in China’ goods are being increasingly spurned these days. Even in long time inundated/saturated Nations such as Australia and NZ. Yipeeeee!
I am old enough to remember “Made in Japan.”
Lol, and people are really getting on in years when they can remember, “Made in Occupied Japan!”
When our last Chinese foreign exchange daughter was getting ready to go home to China she wanted to buy gifts for her parents and aunts and uncles. So we had a day out shopping.
Within the first few minutes of shopping I realized that the mall was the last place she wanted to shop, since she said everything there was made in China to begin with.
Anything and everything there could be purchased in China and for a lot less.
It was then that I realized we needed to head to the artsy part of town, where she could buy crafts made locally and by hand.
She loved it, and helped the local economy, too.
The company who now manufactures my phone and laptop started in a garage here. (Side note: they recently settled one of the worst scam class action lawsuits I have ever seen, for selling user Siri conversations to vendors so the vendors could target consumers. Apple notified very few end users that the lawsuit existed, then settled for millions, most of which will go to the attorneys, and the comparatively few victims, get $20 each, IF those who found out about it and joined, could document that their phone had been listening to them! So much for Apple security)!!!
If you are speaking of HP which started in a garage:
The HP branded consumer products including laptops are not made by that old HP. They are made by contract manufacturers in China/Asia and sold with an HP badge.
HP is one of the former pillars of US industry that hollowed itself out pursuing profit. The original high-end test/measurement equipment side spun off and became Agilent, and now is called Keysight. The rest of what HP had become – the consumer products side – is gone, turned into nothing but a rebadging / brand licensing scheme.
Even Keysight makes very little of what they sell, most of it is made in Asia to Keysight specs by contract manufacturers with a Keysight badge stuck on. Although they still make some low-volume high-mix products in the US, most of the components of those come from China/Asia just like all electronics.
The glory days of mighty HP are gone, my friend. Even their remaining engineering prowess is no better than par with China/Asia in the high end electronic equipment space, the original engineers are retired or deceased.
Amazing how little most Americans know about the products they use.
I’m 75 years old. For 60 years I have only used Fluke test instruments because of the quality, speed of refresh, etc. The instruments are still high quality but have been made in China for the last 20 years or so. Our corporations sold us out for higher profits and some blame goes to US tax law and lack of tort reform.
Yes I’m astounded at just how little….lol, to say the least.
“Amazing how little most Americans know about the products they use.”
Start with the “Made in ____” label on the box or product.
If you haven’t been looking at these, you are in for a real eye-opener.
No, see, ” So much for Apple security,” at end of my Reply. Glad you replied because you just taught me that HP started in a garage too, and more. I love to learn new things, and I consistently learn new things from those who participate at CTH.
You are correct Sir, my oversight.
Apple products are also made in China.
Remember HP calculators, with RPN (Reverse Polish Notation)?
Every engineering student had an HP holster on his belt, on his way to class.
Of course, that was only 50 years ago lol
Your talk may be cheap, but Money Talks in a world where Trump is insuring the Dollar continues to reign supreme.
Fiat money.
While it lasts (pay no attention to the sovereign debt runaway train that will obliterate it).
Sovereign debt is managed rather nicely when purse strings are actually monitored. But I’m just an under educated incompetent American 😎
“Industrial/scientific power continues to increase” only if we continue to increase it, hubris my a$$, they steal every damn piece of tech we allow them to. Your last paragraph is actually comical. We reign supreme in R&D, neither has produced a weapons system in the last 35 years I loose sleep over. Save the hypersonic nonsense, remember your Newtonian principles.
Put an Americans back against the wall and decades become days, been around this game a very long time.
Emeth, there are a lot of products, as you say that are integrated into everything we by from Asian and even other foreign countries. But, you stating that we cannot do this is factually wrong.
IF we COULDN’T do this, it would have failed or been countered the LAST time 47 was 45. But, as you are well aware, they (foreign countries) couldn’t and didn’t do anything.
sounds like you DON’T believe in American Exceptionalism (and ingenuity) propelled by REAL capitalism.
Yes, our school systems are a mess. Yes, schools have been indoctrinating our children for years, but this is an OVER simplification of the issue. You ACT like we DON’T have and schools that perform—we DO. YOU act like we don’t have any SMART kids—we do! You act like ALL of our younger generation is indoctrinated—THEY AREN’T. 47 GOT one of the highest, if not the highest turnout of young voters.
We can and We HAVE brought back manufacturing. And, if you say we don’t have a workforce, we do—all of those underperforming indoctrinated kids will be looking for a place to work. They’ll be able to be trained on the job.
I guess you don’t know about or haven’t read up on the oil spill in The Gulf of America (previously known as the Gulf of Mexico at the time). The big companies had old technology that would clean it up and do a decent job. There was a call (and I believe it was a million dollar prize) to all inventors and entrepreneurs to create better and faster ways to clean up the spill. Literally thousands of people submitted their inventions. Some were okay, some weren’t very effective, some were very effective but not scalable. Some were hilarious while being effective but not practical to implement and some were highly effective.
Americans are highly effective when there are problems to be solved. We have ALWAYS risen to the occasion. No reason we can’t and won’t this time.
We need to decouple from China. We are far too dependent on them right now. Covid showed us that. I’m trusting President Trump to do it.
I’m trusting RFK Jr. to make Ivermectin available OTC, and to get non-OTCs manufactured in the U.S. Which reminds me to go renew prescriptions in case the pills are made in China.
“The US cannot do this. Period.”
Yes, we can and do (or at least did do), the problem is the environmental lobby & all its tentacles.
I was an in house daily 3rd party contractor for a significant time for a …. Television manufacturer up until (about 2000) they moved the whole ball of wax to Mexico which they then moved to China rather quickly after that.
Said TV manufacturer in that facility (very small part of, less than 1%) manufactured circuit boards for their products (probably since the 50’s) & was constantly harassed by the various “overlords” for any level of detected toxicity and/or other violations.
Do MX or CH have any of those harassment’s in a PC board manufacturing environment … I’ll bet not.
Now, were the violations real or manufactured…. hard to say but I KNOW my government overlords invent violations to justify their job. I’m told they need 3 violations per inspection, so what to do….. I leave minor violations just for them to write them up then I move on to some other one as you cannot have the violation twice & certainly not in a row.
ME TOO!!! And sick of the scamming…a close friend, first generation born here Chinese, with parents who legally came here, and an EVER (not never) Trumper, wanted to buy a pair of shoes on Amazon. The listing on Amazon said they were made here. I went deeper and found that they shipped from China. So apparently, the Seller is here, and makes them here, then sends them to China to be shipped back to us!!! 🤣😂🤣🙄😵💫
Lol who ISN’T?… worldwide in fact?! Target is another now being spurned
– in even Australia.
All junk in target….all of it.
Anyone else remember when Walmart pretended to be an American company and had a small isle for Made In America items? That didn’t last long… As for Walmart and Amazon being the hardest hit – I haven’t been able to buy much of anything in any retail clothing store that wasn’t made in a foreign country and looked it.
Yep. Me too
The largest container ship in the world is owned by Wal-Mart, it sails empty one way, care to guess which way that is?
Walmart, no, they were buying pallets by the $10,000, so their goods were already manifested and taxed correctly.
Amazon Basics and Essentials, the private labels for generics like paper, tech and kitchen products, is also bulk shipping.
Amazon FBA and Third Party Sellers, those other sellers that show up in the right hand of the screen, and the direct-shipping generics, will be hardest hit. eBay also has them in the “buy it now” categories.
These are the people with knock-off spatulas, clothing, tech, etc. , or 100 listings with the same stock footage in 8 colors, from made up sellers like “Happy Blue” that are slow boat from China shipping through USPS. They parasite on the 3rd party seller platforms like Amazon and Etsy, which has completely choked off the US small business retail sellers. It’s gotten so bad that there are “turnkey store builders” (search for that keyword) that teach you how to set up a storefront for a Chinese contract factory for resale.
I call it the Walmart effect, where everything is so cheap, and available in such overwhelmingly huge quantities, any value gets lost, not just to new, but old items as well. Like, why buy or hold onto anything made to last, when replacement is so available and cost nothing. It’s hard to remember that it enhances community when handmade dish towels are purchased from local crafters, or that it’s important to give value to those linen hand towels lovingly cared for and passed down from Granma, when Walmart has them for $5 a pack.
Again, who cares?
CHINA, McConnell/wife-Chaou, WORKED to DESTROY us.
Have you ever walked into an At Home store? It’s loaded with cheap crap.
Most of it is in our landfills…which gave the Progressive/Marxists (aka Liberal Democrats) another point to yell at us about…they could have stopped in 20212 and then owned us forever…but they kept pushing…
It is good to be Trump!
For sure it is good to have Donald Trump as our President!
Sure better than the recent criminal moron I bet, I am a Brit and I would rather have Trump than our homegrown Granny Harmer Starmer version of Biden. I guess Farage is our equivalent and he will do for me.
I just wish that Nigel would help Tommy Robinson, but he won’t.
Love Farage.
It is good for Trump to be back!
💯% and lucky, lucky us to be alive during this Golden Age to witness and experience every light speed, miraculous moment. Bigly winning and we’re barely into Week Three.
Hallelujah and thank you, Jesus! This is FUN!
tom petty.
I got you Gary – “if just for a while!’ – TP Wildflowers
Amen….’it’s good to be king….’
Remind Iran’s Mullahs.
So the business will just go to FedEx, UPS, DHL? Maybe raising prices for consumers but still importing the exact same amount of stuff?
You mean you think PDJT will sit back and watch them do an end run on him?
Not likely.
Considering what good ole Bobby wrote about Jesus and Jews tonight on the Bibi post, I wouldn’t listen to any crap he writes.
Bobby
February 4, 2025 9:22 pm
Reply to MaineCoon
Maybe people just realize after a few hundred years that it’s always Jewish people at the helm of insane leftist, anti-white ideologies. I mean they have a section in their holy book talking about Jesus boiling in excrement.
Instigators and flame war types come and go.
They can’t quit us.
You’re just fanboying without asking legitimate questions, I’ve been here since Operation Condor and when that all got thrown out of the window because nobody was held accountable and no prosecutions came and no storm hit, I decided to stop so blindly accepting nonsense.
Perspicacious or provocateur?
Hard call to make . . .
😏
I mean, they do believe that Jesus and Mary are boiling in hell, but I guess it’s easier to sleep being blue-pilled on certain things.
That’s a lie, Logan.
I’m not the one that said it, it’s in the Talmud, it has been talked about for a long, long time. It has never been refuted in official text, the Talmud refers to Mary as a whore and Jesus as a sinner who is paying for his sins for eternity in the afterlife. Is it nice? No, but it’s how they write about us in their official texts unfortunately.
Off topic.
Nope. Go back to the beginning of the discussion. Incoming was directed to Bobby, who posted a legitimate question. Rather than objectively respond to the question, others began ridiculing him for previous comments. He then proceeded to defend the previous comments.
The first person who took Bobby to task for a previous comment was the one “off topic.”
“I really don’t care” what the Talmud says, but I do care when a bunch of treepers start bullying another. Now watch all the incoming directed to me for posting this.
This thread is on and EO , China and the USPS. When people start quoting the Talmud on Jesus and Mary it is an attempt to steer the conversation off course, imo. Not bullying anyone. It changes the topic completely.
That’s a lie, Bobby.
Talmud’s tractate Gittin 56b-57a, referencing Jesus describes him enduring eternal punishment in hell, submerged in boiling excrement.
Feel free to look it up. No shortage of Rabbi’s whom state this is true.
https://www.chabad.org/torah-texts/5453289/The-Talmud/Gittin/Chapter-5/57a
Mr GSD isn’t wrong – clear as day
No.
I wonder what customs and duty regulations are required for items transported via DHL and others?
ECCFs (Express Consignment Courier Facilities) and International Post Offices operate under different regulations. The duty however is assessed the same. The duty waiver under 19USC1321 is also the same.
Differences? Postal shipments need not be manifested, ECCFs must
provide manifests. That is, an accurate list of what is on the arriving aircraft. This allows targeting of shipments for exam before arrival. With Post Office, its just bins of letters and packages
. Another difference is that postal letter class snd sealed letter class can be up to 16oz, so they can have contraband, but also mail, which is protected. Correspondence in ECCFs is not mail, however.
Just a couple of examples on this broad topic.
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As emet says, a manifest allows for targeting prior to arrival.
Without a manifest, it’s simply random.
Even they do switch services, then at least China won’t be getting taxpayer-subsidized shipping via the USPS. It is infuriating that I pay triple to ship a package across my state what China does to ship an equivalent package across an ocean. I’m glad Trump is finally bringing down the hammer on this backwards and corrupt BS.
Exactly!
The customs paperwork and inspection will apply to them as well.
It won’t matter what method it is, and I can speak from experience, importing through FedEx, UPS or DHL is no cake walk. They are very meticulous about everything, their very livelihoods depend on it.
If the de minimus rule is suspended, they will follow suit.
Exactly. The USPS was the cheapest route by far.
The stipulation is the size of the package. USPS was giving China free shipments, so they are all a bit screwed on postage by others and customs inspection.
$800 or less.
I’ve got a feeling they will follow suit. USPS has hand-off agreements with these carriers for small package deliveries. So they either resume small package direct delivery or raise rates to compensate for keeping them in-house or both.
Who was it here just the other day going nuts telling us that China doesn’t need our market at all?
We’ll see how that theory works out now won’t we?
This is just too much fun!
It’s been pretty darn exciting!
I am still tired from my USAID happy dance 🎶
💃💃💃
The China economy is in its worst state in more than a decade, facing persistent deflation that threatens to rival the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. Millions are jobless, especially young people who have graduated into a poor job market with few openings but many layoffs. The air of anxiety and pessimism is thick across Chinese cities. Chairman Xi must confront serious problems sprung from a state interventionist economic policy that he favours.
Chairman Xi has to have jobs for 740 million people, greatest % of them do not want to return to subsistence farming n will die to protect their current life style of iPhones, car n internet. An uprising by the young unemployed workers are Chairman Xi’s greatest concern. PDJT has shutdown green energy has he a campaigned on – NOW China has additional problems. Keep in mind, solar is only profitable to investors if the USG finances and subsidies them.
The significance of China’s troubles is not what it would be in a western nation.
“China’s totalitarian regime seems to have a tolerance for imposing short term pain on its populace in exchange for longer term goals, and this would include economics. This would be in keeping with the “eating bitterness” philosophy, discipline enduring adversity to become tough.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/04/boom-there-it-is-united-states-postal-service-suspends-all-package-deliveries-from-china-and-hong-kong/#comment-11532165
And, geoengineering has dimmed the skies making solar less effective.
It seems Russia and close partner China are demonstrating that they can build economic replacements for lost US markets etc., and the US sanctions on Russia starting 2022 actually had the apparent effect of driving this even harder. (Was that the real goal?)
China’s totalitarian regime seems to have a tolerance for imposing short term pain on its populace in exchange for longer term goals, and this would include economics. This would be in keeping with the “eating bitterness” philosophy, discipline enduring adversity to become tough.
Contrast this with the US. The strengthening of China and parallel weakening of the US over the last few decades tell the tale.
You’re repeating yourself, or forgot to empty your clipboard.
Oh my. We buy the most crrrrrap!
I swear…It’s raining Ice cream and Sodi pop
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows everywhere…
One of my fav oldies!!!
Dang, I thought maybe this would take a couple more weeks. Silly me. Sundance, your analysis continues to amaze!
Best perch for watching Trump Two!
Bar None!!
Donald moves at Trump Speed in Trump Time,… ain’t it beautiful to see!
At this rate he can go play golf a lot in his last two years.
I think Sundance is a secret Trump adviser!
🤫
😉
Hopefully.
It has been suggested that reader comment threads are a rich source for AI analytics feeding the Big Brother executive function.
Advisor, or unwitting facilitator?
Do you rave?
Why are you here?
Whoa, how will people get their Chinese analogue drugs? Sad. /s
Anyway, letters and flats not included. But letter class and sealed letter class is up to 16 oz. So, drugs, c’feit dox, etc will still flow from China, but smaller packages.
The original, hysterically funny “Lawrence O’Donnell Stop the hammering – When Trump Lives In Your Head” video can be found here….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= CmZAyMx7vjQ
NOTE: Remove the space between the “=“ and the “C” above.
Caution…language warning!
As Margot Cleveland tweeted…
“I, for one, am now thrilled they rigged the 2020 election.”
Can’t help but remember that scene from The Hunt for Red October when the Russian sub was outmanoeuvred so that a missile it fired at Red October rebounded and destroyed them instead…
Now why would I remember that, Democrats and all others involved in the 2020 coup…🤔
God works in mysterious ways.
His wonders we behold, Paul 🙏🏻
Amen. Sometimes, just when you think your life is falling apart, it is actually falling into place. Pray. Wait. Trust. 👍❤️🇺🇲🙏🙏🙏
“Asses, we’ve killed us all!”
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😂
Yessiree 😎
FACT:
PDJT could NOT have done what he is now doing if he had won in 2020. The Biden interlude was KEY.
A necessary interval.
As with the wretched and damaging Patriot Act, without question written long, long before it was brought out and which in part has brought us to this point, so I believe President Trump organized his strategy during his four years out of the public eye, ready to effect it Day One of his third term.
As I’ve said before, sometimes what seems like a “No” from Almighty God is actually “Not yet.”
Absolutely.
As I’ve said before, sometimes what seems like a “No” from Almighty God is actually “Not yet.”
So true Betsy. He prepares us and always for something far better than we imagined.
All the better to temper our disappointments, kf, with faith, knowing He is doing things better thongsfor us than we could hope or pray for.
And here we are living in such a time so that we can testify to this truth. Amen.
Amen.
As our VSGPDJT likes to say, “The Best is Yet to Come.”
God never says, “No”. He says, “Yes, Wait, or Something Better.”
As was a well (Devine) timed turn of the head……
Oh yeah….’One ping Vasilie…just one ping..’
Now I want to see it again.
I think you wrote that with Scottish accent…I distinctly heard Sean Connery’s voice as I read it, Remington 😁
“Just one ping before I go………”
Part of the programming of the masses uses entertainment movies. (Agitprop)
One of the effects is mass hubris, overlaid on to many areas.
One area for example: “Women can do anything men can do but even better”, even fighting off multiple 250lb musclebound killers at once with superior skill and verve.
A young woman I know took karate for a couple years. She said this taught her that the movies are absolute BS, women simply cannot do this. But boy, doesn’t it feel great to think it?
Same thing with overlaying “their attack rebounding on them” based on the bad guys shooting themselves in a movie. We are living in dreams made of movie vapors.
So you’ve traveled back to your future?
Arrogance usually has KARMA as a consequence.
ME TOO! and I smell trouble for Dems who participated…(YAY!).
My first reaction to this Sundance post was the pic of your dump truck filled with laughing emojis! I would have posted it, but I haven’t had to the time to follow AZ’s (and others’) instructions about how to, so for now, I defer to you, if you wish…🤣💕
Romans 8 v 28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
“Making matters worse, illegal items are slipping through the cracks, including, knockoffs, unsafe items and even chemicals used to make fentanyl. The worst abuser that exploits this de minimis loophole is, by far, China.
President Trump can require a customs and duty declaration stating what is in every package and subsequently collect tariffs and duties.”
Our last Chinese foreign exchange student used to order all kinds of food from China. The first time I noticed she had meat shipped from China I knew something was not right and called Customs.
They said it was illegal for meat from China to enter the U.S., and yet, our Chinese daughter did it all the time.
Until I told her “NO MORE,” and threw the meat she’d just gotten away in multiple plastic bags.
Worse thing was how the shipping label stated the package contained a “T-shirt.”
Yes, there is a duty declaration on all packages.
I think what happened is when President Trump said he would eliminate the <$200 duty waiver, it meant a vast increase in Post Office workload.
So a package cones in. The customs officer writes (calculates) the duty in accord with the tariff schedule and adds in the 25%. But customers pick it up and pay at the Post Office counter. Now suddenly lots of people with <$200 shipments are going to be lining up at international mail facilities to pay duty and get their merchandise. Lots and lots of people.
What to do?
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Increase in revenue justifies an increase in employees — being a member of the fed family that have been let go from their positions here, recently, should be considered in these new hires to prove their worth and dedication to public service . . .
The Postal Service is owned by the Chinese in my part of the country.
Crazy, but I buy lots of stuff directly from China and have never once had to go to the post office and pick it up, pay for, or sign for anything.
Understand what you’re saying, but have never had to pay any kind of duty on what I’ve been getting from any foreign country — not just China.
Because the declared value was under $800. So the duty was waived under 19USC1321. (sec321c). Also an item may not be dutiable (eg books). And the duty collection may be so small the it is waived (used to be up to $10). But now this might well be changed.
Also, because of light staffing in Customs mail operations, there are bins of packages for which there is no time to examine.
CCP has been using this to send small packages of fentanyl or the precursor drugs to make it to operatives in USA. Better to find and track them to the operatives, then jail and waterboard’em.
This is Treason!
This is treason, for sure.
Good points.
The CBP mail branch will definitely need to expand.
Yeap.
Wouldn’t the duty be charged for the package? The package which would be delivered to your local post office as usual, but to pick it up, you would have to pay the duty owed?
In the past I sent a package to a British customer and had to attach the customs label declaring what was in the package and its value. The customer didn’t want to pay the duty which was based on the declared value of the goods and eventually 4 or 5 months later, I received the package back from her local post office.
So a lot of processing is going to be based on declared value.
Yes. When duty is owed on a mail package, the Post Office collects it. If the consignee refuses to
pay or never shows up, it is returned.
Mislabelling customs paperwork has been going on forever.
Might be a good place to reassign those new IRS hires.
Or the rank and vile unemployed FBI.
You had a Chinese foreign exchange student? ? ?
We had two of them, two years apart.
One of our Chinese “daughters” was from a poor family. She won a national competition against 5,000 other students, and her prize was to attend an American high school for her senior year.
Yinjing begged us to adopt her before she left. She told us that no matter how “smart” she was, that once she got home her apparent predetermined path in life was to work at a factory. It broke our hearts that we could not adopt her.
Our second Chinese daughter was from a wealthy family. Interesting thing was that her parents knew the Chinese government was as dirty as the day is long, and so as much as they could they sent their daughter out of the country.
Every school year, even when she was a tiny girl, Coco spent outside of China. The year she lived with us was her senior year, and for four years after she graduated from high school she attended a college in New York City — in her own apartment.
When the plannedemic hit I contacted Coco to see where she was, to make sure she was OK, and told her to head to our house if she needed help.
I’m going to contact her later today and see where she is and find out if she has finally become an American citizen.
President Trump has probably been preparing for this for the last four years, if not more. Even back in the 1990s he was saying that China was giving us a raw deal. The Lord opened the door for him and he is on a mission.
Today is a very very very nice day! 🙂 With sunshine in the yard!
Our house is a very fine house. With two cats in the yard.
Life used to be so hard. . .
WINNING!!!!!!!
Does this mean that those annoying TEMU ads that pop up all over the place will now become scarce?
Deplorable_Infidel, good comment. You will like this, read the third paragraph on the comment I posted way below. Based on an experience while handling Temu packages, I believe some Temu products have built in hacking devices 😡🤬.
Bye, bye, TEMU,…after closing down 7K US small biz ops with absurdly cheap, cheap Chinese junk meant to do just that.
At least we now have a Real POTUS that knows CCPhina is an enemy, not a competitor!
YES!! We need to:
– print tariff forms
– establish screening procedure to check for fentanyl
– line up scanners and precious trained dogs
They already have the scanners! They can tell the difference between jack Daniel’s and Johnny Walker!
The Golden Age gets brighter by the day! Going to need my shades soon 😎
Re: the postal service.
They take a photo of every letter and package and put into a giant database.
That data needs to be erased!
Nah, I like my Informed Delivery from USPS…
From CBS News….”Mr. Trump’s tariff increase….”
They’ve stripped his title away. These demons never stop.
We’ve plenty more work to do.
Did they ever, EVER refer to fjb as ‘Mr. Biden’??????
Nah, I didn’t think so.
Just another, somewhat sneaky, subtle, way, the msm tries to belittle DJT, aka, President Trump.
Oh dang. Well then.
China is falling apart. I hope they don’t get desperate.
There will be a golden bridge somewhere, someday . . .
Always is.
Shipments of Fake ID’s (used in election fraud?), counterfeit products, among other toxic products, CCP needs US more than we need them. ~
https://english.haiquanonline.com.vn/us-customs-seizes-thousands-of-fake-ids-from-china-12791.html
Absolutely glorious! I am pouring myself a drink right now!!!
Make mine a Mango High Noon, Sir Galahad.
I’ll have a Maker’s Mark on the rocks with a twist, thank you.
So very wise.
As Gregory Peck said, playing Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the 1977 movie by the same name….when an aide asks him if they should summon the Japanese Emperor after the surrender…
”No. After a lifetime of studying the oriental mind, I can tell you….the time will come when the Emperor will cross his moat and come to me by his own volition, and when he does that will mark the beginning of the end of his absolute power over the Japanese people.”
This action by China will have disastrous effects on the US energy markets. Why, it could cause a bit of a glut and drive our energy cost down, say, perhaps half in just one year. How will we survive?
My wife just asked me, ‘What are you laughing about so hard?” I caught my breath and said, ‘Winning”.
All my adult life I hoped for a POTUS that was a businessman not a damn lawyer or politician. Got my wish and being proven correct about running this country as a business. He might even find a way to leave office in 4 years with a balanced budget or a plan in place to get us there.
The art of the deal.
Ha Ha Ha SD! …
You post the most appropriate pics …
but IMO Morose Panda sure is a winner!
Thanks for the laugh!
One of the best parts of this will be President Trump forcing our country club politicians and their media allies to defend the cheap stuff coming in from China!
Also, the comment about vacationing in Paris in the 1930’s…..dude, you crack me up!!
Anyway, funny Customs/Post Office story from back in the day.
I did 30 years with US Customs/CBP. And about 3/4 into my career I was assigned to supervise a major air mail facility. This was a punishment, meant to demean. But it was my favorite assignment and I purposely complained about it regularly, and so was left there for a couple of years.
One afternoon the USDA inspectors x-rayed a package which had some fruit in it (prohibited), and upon inspection discovered $450,000 in 100s. The Customs inspectors tested it with the usual methods and determined it to be real bills. I had some suspicion because I had heard that the N Korean super-notes were difficult to detect. I nevertheless contacted the Customs SAC (Special
Agent in Charge) to report bulk currency smuggling.
While waiting I decided to compare one of the notes with a real one. but nobody on duty had a $100 bill! So, yes there was some mirth.
I then put a magnifier on it, specifically to look at the signature. My face was about two inches from the suspect note. I look up and informed my crew that the bill was bogus.
One by one they took turns looking thru the magnifier, but without detecting the cheat. Get closer, I advised. Nope. No luck.
Finally I said, “smell it”. Yep, freshly printed. Big laugh. Turned it over to Secret Service. Their lab confirmed“supernotes”, and the agents subsequently put together a strong case, and put several people in prison.
Great story!
Nice to hear of someone else who was CBP. Not there quite as long – went through FLETC.
Was mostly airport and pax, not much on the Customs side.
Always enjoyed working with our ‘aggies’ (CBP agriculture inspectors, and their beagles).
Sometimes we’d run LOBs through the X-ray, if short-staffed.
Amazing what pax will try to bring in, food-wise.
Cuy (Guinea pig) from South America was ok, though.
Had my PRD go off once on an Indian family’s bag – a reading of 8!
Turned out their all their cookware was radioactive – must have been contaminated steel.
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Question: how long do we have before China starts moving its goods through another country?
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They have been doing this since about 1990. Wearing apparel thru Mexico has been the most common. Not just to evade high duty, but because clothing from China was (is?) subject to limitation (quota/visa).
They also transship thru Vietnam and Canada. But mainly Mexico.
Maybe the price of the stamp will go down as the volume drops so too should subsidies for package handling.. naw that’s still part of the grift..
Rush Limbaugh would have seen his dreams come true if he was still alive. I can hear those Rush singers now singing about Trumpean executive orders.
Rush was right.😀
Sundance, I have told you and our fellow Treepers I work at the Jacksonville Postal Nuthouse 🤪(it used to be the Jacksonville NDC, now it is called the Jacksonville RPDC). We sort the mail (mainly packages) for over 20 million people. For many years I have been upset and angered by how many packages that we handle there are labeled ‘Made in China’. Horrible, if most people in this country knew how much money China gets from us they would freak out.
Then the Temu junk started to rain in, and every day I had to dump thousands of pounds of it into conveyor belts going up to the sorting machines. All those Temu ‘Made in China’ packages angered me even more, and I told some people at work something most people do not know- China has enslaved a minority named Uyghurs and they use them to make the materials the Temu clothing is made of. The ‘Xiden’ administration pretended not to know about that 😡🤬.
And Sundance, while dumping Temu packages into a conveyor belt about 2 years ago something happened that you will find interesting. I keep my cellphone in a shoulder bag by where I work… all of a sudden the cellphone made the ‘message received’ sound. After a few minutes I was able to open the bag and check the cellphone. The message was a sales message from Temu. The only time I have got a message from Temu was that time while I was dumping Temu packages on the conveyor belt, just a few feet away from my shoulder bag. That made me believe Temu has cellphone hacking devices in some of the stuff they send to this country 😡🤬.
I recall, back in the 1960s when we received a toy that was stamped with “Made in China” we were aware that toy would not last beyond three or four play sessions unless extreme care was taken with it.
Now, Temu says “shop like a billionaire.” I am not falling for it. It is still made in the cheap, huckster manner of all Chinese products.
My God. BRILLIANT.
This is pure poetry in motion. Love it!
And as Sundance has previously noted…
“Remember when President Trump established the “External Revenue Service?” … It’s all connected and sequential.”
Absolutely it is!!
And of course PDJT is “in no hurry” to conduct talks with President Xi.
Let Xi continue to fruitlessly posture and ‘tarfiff retaliate’ in an attempt to save face – inclusive of his ridiculous hiding beneath the skirts of yet another useless acronym…aka the WTO.
Too comical for words.
I was wondering why Jeff Bezos weaponized his gf at the inauguration.
“de minimis”…Death by a billion cut’s no more.
Is that what all the stupid drones were (Chinese companies delivering their crap straight from the ship)?
Didn’t even follow the link.
“Stop the hammering!” wins the Internet for the week!
IYKYK 😂🤡
I wonder if this is going to extend to the overnight delivery companies (UPS, FedEx, etc.), now or in the future. I work in this business, and China is a significant part of our volume.
So if my amazon pkg is coming from China, cleared US customs Jan 30, but still isn’t set to be delivered until next week, will I still receive it?
Lot of Chinese and Hong Kong sellers on eBay. It’s a longstanding eBay policy that if an order doesn’t arrive by a date certain, the buyer can request a refund.
Seems to me a lot of American shoppers are going to end up with free merchandise, once those packages being held up by the USPS finally get delivered.
Fantastic!!!
Love President Trump.
lol, I love him!!!!!
Every. Day. It’s. All. Good. News. Lord protect Donald trump……
“Exhausted media heads will explode as the machine’s narrative engineers struggle -against all odds- to keep the system operating….”
Release the DOGE!!!
🤣
I do not understand completely how it all works. The only thing I thought of to do yesterday was to stock up on batteries. LOL. I try to stay ahead of the curve on supplies knowing that at any time, the crap we get from China via Amazon may not be available. Although, I believe with Trump’s bold moves, China will back off quickly, but we’ll see.
Wondering how Bezos is feeling right now. Wonder if he stocked up his warehouses to overflowing to survive this, or if they will soon empty. LOL.
But what about my Amazon orders? Will I still get my stuff? 🤣
Hahahahahaha. This is what I voted for but didn’t expect to laugh so much.