Steve HermanUSPS suspends acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts. https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/suspension-of-inbound-parcels-from-china-and-hong-kong.htm
(AP) — Americans are likely to pay more for products from popular Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu as the U.S. Postal Service said it would stop accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong. https://apnews.com/article/usps-china-hongkong-shein-temu-b456d7b6d66780090bd5bef862dfda13
USPS lifts suspension of parcels from Hong Kong and China
The U.S. Postal Service is reversing course a day after placing a ban on all inbound packages from China and Hong Kong. The post office had announced Tuesday that it would no longer accept parcels from the China and Hong Kong after the U.S. imposed an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods and ended a customs exception that allowed small value parcels to enter the U.S. without paying tax. The Postal Service reversed course Wednesday but gave no reason. The post office pointed to the short prepared statement on the reversal when asked for more details about the reversal Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Update: USPS says it'll continue accepting all international inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts. https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/suspension-of-inbound-parcels-from-china-and-hong-kong.htm
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Asymmetricblue@forteller @wa7iut @w7voa Possibly, but the USPS has also had a rash of counterfeit postage labels recently in the parcel space, and it could also be related to that.
Robert M
Climate Jenny 2.1@w7voa The slipcover-makers of Etsy (who are keeping a lot of old Ikea sofas alive) are going to be in trouble.
Viss@w7voa RIP amazon
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Virginia Holloway@VirginiaHolloway @w7voa many many sellers on amazon arent "actually amazon". its more like ebay, where you have smaller sellers, and yes MAAAAAANY of them drop ship stuff directly from china
Joe Steinbring 
@w7voa Feeling fortunate that I paid extra to have UPS deliver my new keyboard.
Jim Vernon@w7voa Good thing my stuff from Aliexpress arrived last week.
George Dinwiddie@w7voa
WTF? A cake of pu-erh tea was just shipped to me yesterday.
WTF? A cake of pu-erh tea was just shipped to me yesterday.
lee ᓚᘏᗢ@w7voa people buying boutique PC case shipped from china won't be happy about this.
@w7voa never support the juggernaut Amazon!
Georgiana Brummell@WheresMyWater @w7voa Can you give me an alternative that is fully accessible with screen readers (including descriptions of products), that has a large variety of products, and that offers discounts and free shipping? And if we add Fresh, one that also delivers food in two hours?
@dandylover1 @w7voa what does the “free shipping” cost you per year? Local producers and not trading convenience for no principle.
@WheresMyWater @w7voa Oh, I don't know. Perhaps the money I would be spending on taxis or the time I would have to spend waiting for someone sighted to go with me and describe everything. This way, I'm not rushed, I can read the product descriptions on my own, pay for it on my own without having to give my money or card to someone, etc.
AlgoCompSynth by znmeb 🇺🇦@w7voa So much for buying RISC-V development boards.
@AlgoCompSynth @w7voa Just have it shipped by sea. Will take longer, though. Alternatively i'm sure this will spur just thousands of remailers adjascent to the US shipping space to set up shop. Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam are all probably going to have mom & pop remailing operations springing up in the coming days & weeks.
penryu@w7voa Have they just told us why Tim Apple brib— donated to Trump's campaign?
xs4me2Sorry, WHAT?
IDUCtioN@w7voa only buy 2D products from now on.
Andreas K@w7voa
🤷 The EU did that a couple of years ago (actually it was phased in at different times in the EU MS, and #COVID19 confused the timetable completely, as some dates were postponed a bit).
(It's a bit more complicated here, we do have import VAT being applied, had a threshold which went away, and a tariff threshold, which is less relevant, as the EU has literally few relevant tariffs.)
In practice, most packages from China still arrive without customs processing. No capacity.
@w7voa So if the USA is not willing to suspend parcel service for a year or more till the mail carriers scale the infrastructure, you can expect it to stay with a chance that your parcel will get picked for customs processing.
OTOH, the Weirdo-in-Chief, who oversees the "Cirque des Etats Unis" might be crazy enough and not care enough about his citizens nor the economy. 🤷