12-12-17
China has gotten itself designated as a group 3 country, which gives it a tremendous advantage in shipping goods from China to the United States. (The US is a group 1 country.) It costs less to send a package from Beijing to San Francisco than it does from Los Angeles to San Francisco. And this puts U.S. e-commerce merchants and others at a competitive disadvantage….
a U.S. company sells mugs. It costs them $6.20 to mail the product to a different town in the United States….(whereas from China into the US) the shipping only being $1.00 of the component through the ePacket program, perhaps designed by a UN agency that USPS agreed to deal with)…..China is in a grouping with Botswana, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan and similar underdeveloped countries....
International shipping and the ePacket program is an issue that folks should be on the lookout for. It affects the competitive position of American businesses. It’s now on the radar screen of policymakers in Washington. https://www.practicalecommerce.com/u-s-postal-service-subsidize-china-based-merchants https://www.practicalecommerce.com/u-s-postal-service-subsidize-china-based-merchants
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4-20-2011 HONG KONG — The U.S. Postal Service has initiated a new service with Hongkong Post that is structured to foster growth in e-commerce. The new ePacket service expands the array of options offered to e-commerce merchants in Hong Kong seeking to reach consumer markets in the United States….
Merchants selecting the shipping solution through Hongkong Post are now able to ship small packages weighing up to two kilograms (4.4 pounds) using co-branded shipping labels. Upon arrival in the United States, these packages receive First-Class Mail service with Delivery Confirmation service.
“This agreement offers visibility previously unavailable in the small packet segment between Hongkong Post and the Postal Service,” said Paul Vogel, president and chief marketing/sales officer. “ It shows the Postal Service has the flexibility to develop service options to meet market demand from businesses around the world. Further, it solidifies our role as a key supplier in global commerce.”
Hongkong Post’s agreement with the Postal Service includes jointly developed data-rich shipping labels integrated with barcoding technology readable by both Hongkong Post and the Postal Service, along with logistics planning and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) information exchanges.
Therefore the Chinese by using counterfeit of products worldwide, by shipping illegal drugs, by bypassing patents/copyrights, etc. etc. are making a killing compared to Group 1 countries. -dinn
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