• Great Blue Heron
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    10 hours ago

    The way I read it, the entrepreneur is Bezos - he has his own planes etc. and does not need USPS. You have to buy Chinese stuff from him now. (I have not researched the subject in depth - this is just my take on the headline)

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Bezos would still be subject tot he same import tariffs, the same Customs issues.

      The way I read it is they just created a huge new workload for Customs without funding the resources to do it. Unless we make huge changes to how sites like Amazon works, now Customs needs to have an input in every one of the millions of packages directly sent from over seas every day.

      USPS is smart to say there’s no way to make it work all of the sudden, but it ought to affect everyone.

      …… I see a more recent post that some form of sanity prevailed. If we’re going to instigate trade wars out of spite, let’s at least have a transition where we can try to figure out how to make it work