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)
This may be the start of the end for the buy and throw generation.
The generations that built industry were formed by working with their hands.
The generations that built the next revolution (electronics) were formed by industry and related tinkering.
The “buy and throw” generation of today has nothing in them to build something other than buy and throw, all they know is buy and throw, and this paradigm prevents tinkering to build on.
That’s the US. The other side of the planet is a different story.
Your argument sounds like the H1b argument that says We don’t have enough smart folks here in the US to build things so we have to import them.
That argument is wrong. We have plenty of brilliant young minds that can do more than “buy and throw”.
Agreed. The “buy and throw” started with companies who moved to China to make cheap goods and then, sell them in the USA. We the People did not want buy and throw goods but that is all that is offered to us.
We have intelligent and hard working people in this nation but we need the manufacturing to return so that Americans can be put to work using their talents and skills.
Of course, PDJT is working on reducing corporate tax to 15% so that they can pay good living wages and still make a hefty profit.
Exactly. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been told about a repair that it would cost me more to have them fix it than to buy a new one. When I was growing up it was the reverse of that. I also think items were built to last longer, too, and not cheaply as they are today.
Planned obsolescence has been the rule since the sixties.
But now it’s measured in weeks.
When I was a kid, anything that broke, I got; old appliances, etc.
Sometimes, I would get them to work, sometimes I would gut them for parts, in every case I learned more about how things are put together, and how they work.
All newer products are designed to be unrepairable, hence “buy and throw” form appliances to cars. I had a 1965 corvair, a 1965 Divco Milktruck, and now have 2 trucks vintage 1997.
I am sure no 2025 vehicle will be running or in the shape of either of the ’65’s, in 70 years, and very doubtful even in 30.
And, in frustrstion I have largely given up on repairing home appliances, they are all run by a computer chip, and I never was much into electronics,…
Its intentional. The bean counters have calculated they make more sales, not by establishing a solid reputation of longevity, and so value, but instead of designing them to break right after the warranty has expired, and then as you say, being more expensive to repair, than to just toss and replace.
Sad,…can we bring back quality products, again?
Forgive this wordy reply, but I think it helps to write a thought out now and again.
My granddad used to say, “Keep something seven days before you throw it away, and then remember where you threw it.” Back in the old days, people not only repaired most things that broke, often they had to make the part used to effect the repair.
Back, I think it was around the late 40’s or early 50’s, the government tried to stop large scale moonshinning by limiting the number of five-gallon cans one could purchase without having to sign for them. With this rule in place, anyone that purchased a large number of cans risked being investigated by the FBI.
One of my dads good friends who was “in the business” so to speak, ran into this problem, so my dad made him a machine, more or less, that could make five-gallon cans. It would measure, cut the exact amount to tin required to contain five gallons, to the drop, with a little room for expansion, cut the bottom and top pieces, and create all the beads for seamlessly joining all the sections. Then another process would be followed to cut out and form the spout which would be soldered into place. I actually saw a can made with this machine. It was every bit as solid as a store bought can that look as though it were stamped out of one solid part.
It still amazes me when I think about how a fellow with an 8th grade education, could accomplish this. Truth is my dad had an 8th grade formal education, but probably the equivalent of a PhD. in self study.
He was an original thinker that just seemed to be able to reason out a solutions to problems.
Every time I would ask him how he managed to figure something out, his answer would be “Well, that was the only option, was to figure it out.” The greater meaning I gleaned over time was, you figured it out if you wanted to kids to get milk that week.
So, the moral of this story is, not only were thing more repairable in older days, but I think people were a little better thinkers, more capable, or at least more motivated to repair things.
What a great story. Thank you. I marveled how my father could fix just about anything and everything. And build (as in buildings)-all aspects from laying a foundation to plumbing and electrical. I own many of his tools to this day. (Tools were always passed down from generation to generation.) My mother, too, was as good (and smarter). He was a high school graduate, and worked with his hands his entire life. When my kids or grandkids start in about “college education” I remind them that no one in the families went to college until my generation (Boomers), and that I’d put any of their grandparents up against them any day of the week. (IOW, you are not as smart as you think you are and are being disrespectful.)
Yep.
A friend of mine still has, and uses, the chest freezer his grandmother bought in the late 1940’s.
Things were made to last back then.
Talent needs Opportunity. Giving opportunity to Foreigners, while stifling options for Americans is EXACTLY what the DEEP STENCH in D.C. does.
Notice how USAID funded the Democratic Party to, among other things like finance the Rent-a-Crowd, stole an American Election.
POLITICO got $8 million stolen from the U.S. Taxpayer.
Billy Chrystal got $. I would bet you the college groups protesting for Palestinians (remember all of the new, identical tents?!!) got some.
No doubt some of the 2020 election steal was funded by USAID, the only qurstion is,…”How much?”
For Elon, who is apperently stupid and knows nothing about govt. proceedures (according to mental giant AOC) he and his 6 young audists seemed to have immediately lazer focused on the center of the rot, ss being at USAID, and the revelations just keep coming.
This is attacking the 4th branch of govt., and cutting it off at the base.
Spot on, we have plenty of talent and corps don’t want to hire it, they want cheap contract workers and h1bvisa workers. I have 2 engineering degrees from Purdue. I have been laid off 6 times in my ‘career’. The longest I have lasted at any 1 company is 10 year, 8 at another, 5 at another. I’ve had to take short term contract jobs several times because no one would hire me full time. I just retired at 62 after applying for over 100 jobs the last 18 months. No one wants to hire white males citizens. I can tell you the same stories from my peers. There is a glut of STEM workers and companies don’t value STEM workers, they only want cheap throw away contract workers, including h1b visa workers. The ROI for STEM/engineer is not worth it. Engineering salaries have lagged inflation for over 30 years. My ending salary was only 13% more than I was making in 2010. I spent a total of 4 years and 7 months laid off during my ‘career’. That’s a huge drain on lifetime earnings. You miss out on almost 5 years of wages and have to drain your savings during that time. Mind you I was willing to move anywhere in USA and once held a secret clearance working for a major defcon company. I have worked for 3 fortune 500 companies. And I have dozens of peers that can tell similar stories about themselves and their peers at various companies.
If you had a kid in school over the last 10 yrs, including Trump’s first time, when they kept the status quo, so he couldn’t do anything about it, like letting liberal teachers not hang his picture with the rest of the presidents and schools not allowing red MAGA hats, and then Covid, where students saw behind the curtain and didn’t see a reason to get good grades anymore in such a bogus system, not to mention having CRT racism and divisiveness shoved down their throats until they are afraid to move, you’d know how dumbed and numbed our children have become, looking for safe spaces and lazy days, complete with food delivery, before anything else.
I call it a Value Added Economy -v- a Value Borrowed Economy.
A Value Added Economy mines a rock, turns it into a metal, the metal is manufactured into a product, that product is shipped to their own market and to overseas markets. Value is added in each process. When set free of government control, this type of economy creates a vibrant and diversified economy, a middle class, skilled craftsmen, innovation and creative solutions.
A Value Borrowed Economy gets online, pulls out their credit card and orders a product that was mined, smelted, manufactured and shipped in from overseas. This type of economy creates indebtedness, a consolidation of wealth into fewer families, haves and have nots, lost skills and dependency.
Past generation participated in a Value Added Economy, the recent generations are a part of the Service/Value Borrowed Economy where personal debt is the highest it’s ever been in history.
Financialized Economy, floated on Debt.
Real Economy where Real things are produced, is Value-Added.
“Congress in 2015 then raised the de minimis threshold from $200 to $800.”
Hmmm. Which members were paid off?
“Elon, need some transparency here.”
Every single one that takes money from the US Chamber of Greed.
How about getting Trudeau to open up that Canadian slush fund that financed the Clinton Foundation.
Forget about college degrees – waste of $$$, useless degrees and social engineering camps – instead, funnel youth into trade schools. Such a push will also serve to pare down the social engineering camps. Not every HS grad needs a subsequent four year (and plus) degree. As it is, a four year doesn’t count for much anymore anyway.
I praise my students who say they’re going into welding. We need welders. Plumbers. Electricians. Auto repair mechanics. College is NOT for everyone (and I wouldn’t send a kid of mine to one today anyway).
Check out Mike Rowe’s (Dirty Jobs) Mikeroweworks website.
He partners with US companies who are looking for folks who want to get into the trades.
That’s great- tinkering ! You don’t hear that very often !
I’m 58 yrs old . That’s exactly what my Grandfathers both did – tinker in the garage , fixing things . My one grandfather fixed tvs my other watches and clocks .
Both were coalminers in Windber PA. When I visited I would say to my Gram. ” where Pap ? ” she would say ” in the garage tinkering ”
My one Grandpa would go to the niehborhood dump to find things people threw away and fix them !
They passed that down to us grandkids an we all are passing it down to ours .
Sadly today many kids don’t have a Father or a Grandfather to do that for them. Hence : buy and throw . Sad .
God Bless America. I pray we continue to turn things around.
The handle on my good old Pulaski broke about 20 years ago. I was going to buy a new (Chinese crap, only ones I could find) one but my Dad (gunnery sergeant in European theater in WW2, came home to earn a Mechanical Engineering degree on GI Bill, worked at that while building up his Concord grape vineyard and eventually farming full time) told me to go to the local surplus lot where the old guy in charge offered new handles made in USA. My Dad skillfully attached the new handle while explaining to me everything he was doing, and why, including using oil and putting small shims on each side of the inserted handle. That Pulaski is still solid and in use. I miss my Dad every day. He died in 2010. Without any formal training, just self-taught life experience, he could fix almost anything, and usually did. Because that was the only option for much of his life.
Windber?
Anywhere near South Fork?
My Mom lived in South Fork as a kid, near Johnstown.
Ah, yes. Dad’s old gas-powered lawnmower with the pull cord that usually got it started on the third or fourth try.
LOL !!!!
Waiting for the EO to gut the Post Office.
Remember they transported truckloads of ballots between states on election night, both in 20219 and again in 2024.
Interesting that the USPS employees didn’t get the buyout offer which expires tomorrow.
Fionnagh, I will tell you why. Strange. Something the vast majority of people do not know. After I started working for the USPS 26 years ago, it surprised me when I learned this.
Yes, the USPS is a government agency, but it is not funded by the government by using tax money. It is run as a private company, and it is funded directly by the money it gets from its customers, not tax money from the government.
That is also the reason why the government was not able to force us to take the fake Covid jab- USPS is a government agency, but it is run as a private company. And many of us did not want to take the jab, so the USPS did not force us to take it.
Hasn’t the Post office been operating in the RED for decades? If so, who is funding them. A private company wouldn’t survive.
Also, who in their management allowed for the overnight trucking of ballots.
The public deserves transparency.
Smitty, the USPS is deeply in debt (because of its corrupt and stupid management), it is funded by its customers, but it has not been shut down because it is a government agency.
Your second question is excellent. Based on my experience working for it for 26 years, most of the USPS management is corrupt and stupid 😡 🤬 .
For example- years ago, during the Christmas season the one who was the manager of my facility had over a quarter million pounds of packages hidden for two months in trailers at the parking lot of the Christmas annex, but he reported that mail as having been processed. Liar!
What he did was illegal, he should have been fired AND sent to jail ⚡ 🔥 . When workers at my facility reported his lies to the USPS, the USPS sent an ‘investigation’ team (a coverup team 😡 🤬 ) from Washington DC for a week. I predicted and told people at work that team would cover up for him. They did. The manager suddenly disappeared, but we were not told what had been done to him. It took us two years to find out how they had covered up for him. I found out and told everyone else. The Washington DC coverup team, instead of getting him fired and sent to jail, had covered up for him by getting him transferred to the main USPS facility in the Jacksonville downtown area 😡 🤬 .
The USPS management is absolutely corrupt and stupid.
Retired after 22 years with USPS and I can testify that what you write is truth.
Local Post Offices in red states/counties are filled with hard working, God fearing, wonderful people. I love my mail ladies!
Most of the Made-in-China crap is in our landfills…and everyone knew that is where it would end up…this 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…
That is correct and a terrifying thought .
But they kept pushing. Thank God
Let’s keep praying it is !
A long time ago my wife got hooked on buying trinkets via wish.com. It was boredom. When I pointed this out, she realized she needed to make a change in how she was filling her free time.
The problem AI will create, but cannot solve, is what are people going to do when they don’t have much to do?
That is a bigger problem than even the mass surveillance issue.
People need to find what interests them and volunteer. It is a win-win situation. This concept needs to be established within our youngsters.
The problem is tech is atomizing the culture. AI will accelerate that.
The Globalists want to whittle down the population of the plebes so you won’t need to worry about it…
GREAT!!!
Who NEEDS anything from China.
Create, build, develop and produce OUR OWN.
China DESTROYED our country, economy, jobs WITH COVID.
Still not recovered. This work at home crap and people NOT WORKING (and getting paid and fed) ALL originated from COVID.
DESTROY China and DESTROY McConnell’s WIFE and FAMILY!!!!!!!
Medicine is my major concern. I have had two prescriptions this last week that are not identified with any “pill ID” program.
Unless we have found other resources for medicine, we are all in for a shock.
I am beginning to wonder who makes those pills that are named as they should be, but there is no reference for them.
We are probably over medicated by design… that includes me.
Yes, most eventually just cause other problems, and are designed to have us dependent on them.
Some are essential such as Synthroid and insulin.
Doctors no longer treat the whole patient, they treat the symptom with no thought about the patient as a whole. If you have neuropathy, here take this Gabapentin and that is usually the only choice offered.
Actuslly, they treat the test results.For a # of reasons, they focus more and more on #’s on a piece of paper, or now a computer screen, and less on the patient in front of them. Sad.
80% of API’s come from China
Trump is right we depend entirely on China to supply our medicines
How do you change in a country who are too lazy to change like sleepy teenagers who can’t get up
in time for school always late.
Well, do you force change??
First you take away the pharmaceutical ads on television, and they no longer corrupt the Media outlets.
Second, end any lobbyist money going to Congress from the pharmaceutical companies until they stop production in China.
Third, increase tariffs so much that the only option they have is to produce here or Mexico.
We will make them. I bet that PDJT can direct Big Pharma to sell the in the USA to Americans FIRST before they are shipped around the world to sell for pennies on the dollar.
I threw away all my pharmaceuticals. Not saying everyone can do that. I began to focus on good, clean, food as medicine and herbs. This is a great book to get started with:
The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies.
Most medicines started out as herbs prior to chemical manufacturing. Just sayin’. It’s worked for me.
The book is excellent. I am 73 and by the grace of God do not take pharmaceuticals.
I went to my PA yesterday and she looked through my records and commented. “Everything looks great except your cholesterol is a little high. Would you like a statin?” ME: “no thanks , because not taking a statin is why everything looks great.”
Thirty years ago they told me that my cholesterol was a little high and offered to put me on Lipitor. I said no thanks.
That was the beginning of the end with my relationship with Big Doctor.
When they tried that with me, haveing researched Statins, I asked in my most sincere voice ;
“Does that come in suppository form, doc?”
Startled, he began thumbing thru my chart, thinking he had missed something as he said “Why, do you have trouble swallowing pills?”
“No” I said “I just figure it would be easier for you to shove it, cause I ain’t taking it.”
Cholesterol does NOT cause arterial plaque, and the identical mortality rates of those taking ststins and so “lowering their cholesterol” and those not, proves it.
But, you die with GREAT test results! Again, tresting to the test results, NOT the patient.
Fastest way I know of, to get real sick, real fast, is to go to a doctor.
Doctors will do anything they can to get you strapped in aboard the big pharm express.
China was powerless to destroy anything. This was all brought to us by the US Chamber of Greed & their OligarchWhores on the Hill.
Never forget that.
Lou Dobbs sounding the alarm on the Chamber of Greed 20 years ago! I miss him. RIP Lou.
Ditto.
Let the Chinese EAT THEIR CRAP…..
This will change a lot of how companies buy, and how individuals buy. Love it. Wait for it…this is a slow burn. Throw away crowd has not been paying attention.
China is a huge importer of energy. It’s not like they can stop doing it.
If they want to eff over their own importers and population, go for it.
And Food!
I like this, but what percentage does USPS do in this area? I know they handle some packages of the big ones. Is this strictly USPS packages or does it also include handling of the others, Amazon, etc?
Copied from a previous post:
eBay has a lot of stuff offered by Chinese sellers as do other web sites like Temo and Vevo. The stuff is shipped in 40 foot containers. In China, the mail comes in one small package at time until the container is filled. It is sealed and delivered to the US where it bypasses customs as the entire container is filled with these exempt packages. The container is opened and the packages are distributed in the mail system. That is how you can buy a $1 item from China with free shipping. How much is there? Many, many containers. Stuff shipped this way can often arrive in 2 weeks, sometimes less.
And the eBay ad will claim “US Seller” because the package will originate in CA.
The bad grammar and punctuation in the ads are usually the tip-off of the actual origin.
Ah ok. Thanks
Now it gets interesting. Will these containers now be opened at the port?
At Port Newark/Elizabeth, CBP does random inspections of containers – there are thousands of containers, stacked on top of each other. So so many from China.
The same is true of Long Beach and other ports.
Nearly all items are containerized.
Under these new conditions, officers may be directed to inspect these formerly bypassed containers… and if they do not conform to the stated declaration, the whole container may be held. It definitely will slow down deliveries – and add cost to the process.
Customs can open any cargo to inspect, then
re-seal.
But it takes time to manually go through each container.
Trucks leaving the port with containers also go through radiation portals… and any anomalies found are then checked with hand-held devices – any continued unusual readings, must then be inspected physically.
China is going to find that it’s going to be more expensive to ship to the US.
They are also warehousing here, as well.
On Temu, it will specify “available in local warehouse” with a shorter delivery time, for many of the products.
Those warehouses were probably stocked in exactly the same way.
Add eBay sellers to your list.
As an American repairer/restorer of film cameras and lenses, I import low-dollar lens caps, filters and such from China, via eBay.
There are no other sources for some of these items; Chinese cut-throat pricing killed them off years ago.
Any American/Canadian reading this that has access to a plastic molding plant, or an optical glass production line: Here awaits opportunity, replacing Chinese supply with *economical* domestic product.
This need for American-made products (as you describe), combined with the “brilliant young minds that can do more than “buy and throw”” (as t. turtle says above) is what I think President Trump envisions.
more things invented, created, manufactured, and distributed in the good ol’ U.S.A.
also in conjunction with more trade schools!
as discussed many times, all young adults don’t want, nor need, to go to a college or university.
I went to bed last night thrilled President Trump had targeted silos within the United Nations and then woke to this beautiful gift! 😁😁👏👏👏👏👏
I’m not entirely sure President Trump isn’t Santa Clause.
Happy days!!!
Made me laugh! Thank you for that!
I woke up this morning, and got some inkling of what a leftists must feel like.
My thought was “Oh, God, I wonder what Trump has done, NOW.? Abolish the U.N., Annex the West Bank, …WHAT?”
Of coarse, it was with ANTICIPATION, not DREAD, but can you just imagine what this is like, for the libtards?
Sure, Bidens admin put us thru four years of hell, but for the most part the indignities came slowly, like water torture.
PDJT is mercilessly pulverising them.
Finally, Sanity Clause has arrived!
On january 5 I ordered Some beating suit bottoms from walmart. Two weeks later I read an article about a logistics company raid at Port of Long Beach CA. One week later my tracking number goes to some chinese company. I still have not received my package. Guess I’ll be contacting walmart for a credit.
“The beatings will continue until morale improves.” 🤣🤣
Good! I am an eBay seller. My main source of income is machine tool perishable tooling like carbide inserts, drills and milling cutters. In recent years, there have been a lot of Chinese knockoffs of these items. They would even create fake packaging marked “Made in USA.” The tools are sub-standard and can break unexpectedly. Many of the people that buy them have decided to avoid eBay which includes me and my legitimate tools.
One example: A ten-pack of carbide inserts can retail for $200+. I buy mine from bankruptcies and liquidations and can sell them for $50 a pack. The Chinese knockoffs are $10-$20 a pack with FREE shipping.
The stuff is shipped in 40 foot containers. The mail comes in one small package at time until the container is filled. It is sealed and delivered to the US where it bypasses customs as the entire container is filled with these exempt packages. The container is opened and the packages are distributed in the mail system. That is how you can buy a $1 item from China with free shipping.
And via the USPS granted epacket system which allows the “developing country” called China with its space station and (now dead) rovers on the moon and Mars to ship from China cheaper than shipping within the US. Trump tried to stop that in 2018.
However, Chinese sellers will probably now trans-ship through neighboring countries like Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc.
Also, those sellers on Amazon who ship directly from China as indicated by LONG shipping times will no longer container ship those individual parcels then shipped by USPS you refer to, the larger concerns will simply bulk ship to Amazon warehouses for “fulfillment by Amazon” which will raise prices a bit because Amazon, being at least a US company, will then be in the profit loop. I can see the mom and pop Chinese sellers banding together to do the same.
So, unfortunately, this isn’t a fix all. The FIX would have been for “our” corporate owned government to not ALLOW China to prove the apparently great truth of the old commie adage being the basic message of a much longer Lenin quote, “A capitalist will sell you the rope you hang him with.”
However, in this case, it has been “will finance your rope factories, allow rope manufacturing IP to be stolen without consequences, and then BUY the rope you hang him with even after he finds he’s been duped because you’re now the only source for rope!”
Some handy responses for angry libs:
“Go grab some friends and storm the capital!”
“Too bad. Trump already issued preemptive pardons.”
“Darn those 8 million voters who stayed home.”
Seems, that if they’re not delivering from China, it would impact mostly businesses that depend on their cheap products. Walmart sells a lot from China and so does Amazon just to name two. Right?
Walmart doesn’t ship via USPS.
For Chinese sellers on Amazon shipping from China, it’s a very different story. They’ll get around any blockade by shipping bulk to Amazon warehouses, but that will make more for Amazon since they’re then more involved in the process where before they were only listing the items which were then shipped directly from China. You can tell those by the LONG shipping times.
Bottom line is that cheap Chinese products will still be available, just not those shipped directly to consumers by USPS.
thanks Winston always can depend on you to help me out.
Yeah, unfortunately, while it’s better than nothing, it’s not a fix. I will repeat from a post above:
The FIX would have been for “our” corporate owned government to not ALLOW China to prove the apparently great truth of the old commie adage being the basic message of a much longer Lenin quote, “A capitalist will sell you the rope you hang him with.”
However, in this case, it has been “will finance your rope factories, allow rope manufacturing IP to be stolen without consequences, and then BUY the rope you hang him with even after he finds he’s been duped because you’re now the only source for rope!”
If the USPS’ own inspectors will be charged with inspecting those one billion small-value packages, this program will fail. Inspections and reporting must be assigned to an outside team, perhaps another branch of DOGE.
External Revenue Service agents. 😁
I watch YouTube channels for electronics geeks like me. Many are in the EU and Australia and I’ve seen many cases where their customs had opened the packages of gadgets sent to them for review or to repair. They were never the typically small to tiny packages seen from China and the likely reason for opening was either the claimed contents or what would have appeared on an X-ray.
That said, I agree with you that there is absolutely no way that our customs can inspect all of those tiny pages NOR will any TINY import duty be worth the cost of logging and collecting which is probably the reason for the prior $800 trigger point for that.
Back when I used to buy from eBay, I’ve received very low value items (all I’d trust them with) from China and even then the claimed value on the package was even lower than the already low value of the item which the Chinese sellers probably universally do for all buyers for the benefit of buyers from other countries who actually have to pay duties. HOW are those foreign customs or our customs going to be able to prove that the claimed value is low-balled? They can’t.
A point to mention here: The best fake ID’s come from China. Submit a few photos, pay to a rolling digital address, then wait a few weeks and a pair of flip flops, a picture frame, a water bottle or some other random object arrives in the mail. Hidden inside are two driver’s licenses that pass both magnetic strip scan and close scrutiny. They can perfectly clone any State ID.
I know of it from college kids using the service to get into bars, but stop and think about that being the first piece of a puzzle to get bank accounts, business licenses, ultility accounts. The Chinese did not set this up to make money off college kids, they set it up to hide sleeper agents and facilitate smuggling.
What about secondary countries like Vietnam that China uses as bypass?
Stunning. And thank you for your excellent reporting, Sundance.
China brought this entirely on themselves
China thought Trump was bluffing, so they finding out he ain’t playing around.
It won’t impact me at all.
But I had to wear a the face mask and eventually lost my job. And it these same ones who created the pandemic pushed the lock downs who love China and illegals so much let them feel the consequences of Trump’s wrath.
There will be a sudden surge in packages arriving from Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc., with Chinese shippers evading tariffs and the blockade by routing through neighboring countries.
Then those countries, if caught, should also be sanctioned, even more so than china.
Do you think that Team MAGA hasn’t already thought of that and has an
answerpunishment for it?Jeff Bezos whining and threatening lawsuit in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!. Bring it on. Greedy companies that sanction live human organ harvesting need to go. Go Trump! make local mom and pop grocery and hardware stores profitable – Wal mart goes belly up. Too bad, so sad.
You may consider Walmart as too bad, so sad but you’re not considering those who don’t have the money to buy at mom’s and pop’s because they have to charge more to live too. Those on fixed income which are low in comparison to many incomes, Walmart, etc., is a blessing. I’ve tried to shop USA and let me tell you, its not easy when your income isn’t great. I shop where I can afford to buy.
Hence the “make mom and pop grocery and hardware stores profitable – out compete Walmart on prices.
Jeff Bezos whining and threatening lawsuit
Perhaps not. From above:
Chinese sellers will probably now trans-ship through neighboring countries like Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc.
Also, for those sellers on Amazon who ship directly from China… the larger concerns will simply bulk ship to Amazon warehouses for “fulfillment by Amazon” which will raise prices a bit because Amazon, being at least a US company, will then be in the profit loop. I can see the mom and pop Chinese sellers banding together to do the same.
Yes. Its a global Economy. The US dollar does not rule anymore. Its easy to get around sanctions and tariffs. While increasing prosperity.
Russia is proof of that.
damn, your doom and gloom reality check – can’t I at least dream for a minute or two?
Lol T is going to let Xi simmer in it for a while..
Retribution for what China did to the USA and what China did to PDJT on a personal and business level.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4403509-usps-reverses-track-and-says-it-will-accept-international-inbound-packages-from-china-and
USPS has not adapted yet it appears.
lock and load. Bob Seger.
We should use the empty USPS airplanes to fly Chinese nationals back to China.
There’s nothing that says a USPS package can’t be an illegal being shipped back to their homeland.
Use those planes, Mr. Trump.
Not being very well-informed on this subject, can China sneak in these packages through, say, Australia or Vietnam , Etc.?
IndiaMart is still open.😉
Local radio news just said something about packages will be delivered from China and Hong Kong. I was only half listening but they were using a jumble of words from the Post Office (clarification, misunderstanding, yadda, yadda)
Hammer Time !
This will be a kick in the arse to Amazon too.
He is amazing. He is pulling no punches. I just hope he’s can stay healthy for 12-20 more years
During the COVID madness, I left SF Bay Area for a small, rural town in southern Utah. One of the things I discovered was this small town had once had a thriving textile industry, including a factory! My immediate neighbor raised 5 children manufacturing clothing out of his own mini factory he set up in a barn. NAFTA killed it all off. The Chinese owned hog farms were recently shutdown. The young adults have no job options anymore other than service. The Rust Belt affect was not limited to the Midwest. What an incredible opportunity for these small town industries to revive! These are what most would consider a minor side-effects to President Trump’s tariffs and protectionism, but to the future and immediate generations that live here, it means a return to a life where these very close families can continue to stay together and are not forced to move away to gain a living income. Grandmothers and grandfathers can help raise their grandchildren once again. That may sound minor, but it isn’t. It’s the way it is supposed to be and will strengthen society as a whole.
Bring back fine furniture making to the east coast. Hickory, NC in particular. Have the companies
hire some old people that still have the skill set and knowledge. Let them work part time, in training.
Because such individuals would be helping re build America, give them a huge cut out for taxes. The IRS
will make many many many times the tax revenues from all the individuals that are employed, the future
tarriffs of shipping out quality goods overseas.
Or just end income taxes as well.
Yes, USPS has reversed its decision
Come on. The Death to America by a Thousand Cuts starts with the U.S. Postal Service SUBSIDIZING China postal packages, including Fentanyl.
Yet, this is exactly what the Deep Stench, including China Mitch, have been foisting onto America for decades.
No wonder the American Economy is on life support.
I would love to walk into a store and find the shelves filled with products made in America instead of all the disposable garbage made in China.
Democrats are completely bewildered by what President Trump is doing. They don’t know if they’re coming or going.
Looks like the neighbor’s TEMU shopping is at an end.
Several news sources are reporting the USPS has already caved and will resume accepting packages from HK and China:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/05/usps-says-it-will-resume-accepting-inbound-packages-from-china-hong-kong.html
I still use my mothers red plastic fork and spatula set from the 1980’s (Made in USA). Looks brand new even today. Anything made in Peking especially plastics start to get that yucky “stickiness” after only a year or two. Pure garbage made by people who unfortunately have no pride in their work likely because they are in forced labor conditions.
Just saw a story that the USPS has reversed it’s decision and is now accepting the packets from China.
Wolverine v fat panda? No contest.
Shrewd and stable Genius!!!
So very happy he is back in office. I LOVE winning and I love that AMERICA is back
I’ve noticed my USPS tracker doesn’t work like it used to on some pkgs. Instead of tracking the whole way, it may mention it has been switched to another shipper, made it to a point in the US, many states away, then no info until poof! it’s Out for Delivery, with no tracking in between, on or before the Expected Delivery Date.
I think China knew this was coming and has already made contingencies, and DOGE needs to look at such weird hidden gaps in delivery to figure out the parts of shipping USPS allows to be hidden.
I had the option to use USPS for some spark plug wires, since it was 5 bucks cheaper. Three weeks later finally received, no info at all. Never again. Trump mentioned privatizing USPS – maybe a two birds with one stone deal?
According to CDC there were 72,792 deaths from Fentanyl in 2023 the last year reported.
The Covid jabs have and are killing and maiming Millions of Americans.
Trump is going after the wrong criminals.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2024/20240515.htm
You know darn well that China will find another country as original source country for their packages!
OK so USPS acted but now its time to look at the US End of the pipeline for packages.
ALL the mail order clearing houses and companies … besides Amazon …. that have sprung up like wild mushrooms to take advantage of the “inspection free rules”. Their adds are all over the internet as well as Broadcast media … the largest are the Health Plan, Medicaid and Medicare mail order drug plans…United Healthcare, Kaiser, etc. …. Even pharmacy outlets, like CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, et al need to be investigated.
Think of ALL the FAKE ACCOUNTS found by DOGE, during their Treasury Investigation as an example , that can order and receive (un-inspected) packages from off-shore, CANADA and MEXICO that claim to contain less than $800 of stuff. Even the criminal cartels would be smart enough to use this route through legitimate business conduits.
Then there are US Based International Pipelines besides Amazon … UPS, DHL, Fed Ex. etc.
Actually all items imported into the USA must be accompanied by an invoice describing the goods and their value — even if they are just gifts or samples. The carrier (UPS for example) won’t accept any package destined to the USA without this documentation in triplicate.
Sure sure … the US carriers will believe anything that has an “official” stamp as a CYA, for example “UPS”, and the freight bill has been paid. That does not mean anything was revealed with respect to the real content of packages.
It would be just triplicate CYA…with a Canadian, Mexican or China Inc. stamp.
Hopefully this means my mail will actually arrive instead of being lost.
Sadly, USPS has already caved: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/us-postal-service-suspends-parcels-china-intl-hnk/index.html
Caved to what?
To the reality that even the “low value” individual parcels flooding the US from China are vital for the US to maintain status quo?
Including not just consumer goods but also products used by businesses?
(Let alone everything else supplied by China, wholesale/bulk and raw/processed materials?)
I wish I could be optimistic about rebuilding US industry in 3 years, but the signs are everywhere that the mojo that built US industry and associated science/engineering has largely been lost. Here’s one of many glimpses:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/kids-arent-alright-gen-z-admits-they-dont-know-how-change-lightbulbs
The lack of real world experience results in profound skills poverty that cannot be remedied in a few years, especially with the widespread literacy deficiencies.
I started tinkering at 10 – mechanical, electrical. This was not that uncommon in the mid seventies, if you read biographies like Steve Jobs you see that this was the genesis of many such men. Then went to work at 14 for a small vending company learning skills including electromechanical troubleshooting and repair, along with a multitude of other shop skills. A 3 year apprenticeship of sorts. Then dropped out of high school, 2 years full time auto mechanics training with work experience, and finally an associates degree and a BSME with industry experience starting in the last year in college. By the time I got the BSME I had experience to go to work in industry.
Such opportunities to acquire skills and experience needed for industry are rare for young people in the US now, a result of the loss of industry and the “throwaway” products that are unrepairable.
It seems many who bluster that the US can rebuild industrial strength “because we did it before” are not seeing the dearth of necessary opportunities that has left younger generations bereft of needed skills.
You may laugh when you see “Gen Z can’t change a lightbulb”, but this is not surprising really, given the coddled soft state of most of them. It’s pathetic, I feel sorry for them – especially the young men. There are exceptions of course, but this seems to be the majority.
That tells me that Xi has blinked and Team PDJT is now negotiating for a solution that Makes America Great Again.
Will this also affect Amazon? What about deliveries that don’t use USPS, but UPS for Fedex? Sorry if dumb questions.