Dave Williams Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 Not meant to be political, but letting people in the US know if you have anything coming from Lucky Model, AliExpress, Chinese sellers on eBay, etc. you may be in for a wait. https://www.yahoo.com/news/usps-temporarily-suspends-accepting-packages-020834943.html Out2gtcha, CRAZY IVAN5 and Rick Griewski 3
Rick Griewski Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 Cleaning our loaded guns while aimed at our feet. Cut off postal revenue stream. John1, CRAZY IVAN5, scvrobeson and 1 other 4
europapete Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 cnn just reported that the pause has been lifted. jwest21 and John1 2
John1 Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 Just a well organized train wreck. I’m sure it will change a few dozen more times. johncrow, CRAZY IVAN5 and ringleheim 1 1 1
BloorwestSiR Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 An article on CBC says that the de minimis limit on goods from China has been eliminated. The previous limit was $800. Anything under that amount was not subject to duties or federal tax. With that limit gone, anything and everything is subject to the above. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tariff-border-canada-us-1.7450495 We ran into this a bunch when I worked at a children's clothing store shipping orders to the US. Over $800, duties and taxes. Under that amount, nothing except state taxes if applicable. The Canadian de minimis limit is $40 CAD so pretty much anything that enters Canada is subject to it at the discretion of Canada Customs.
thierry laurent Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 In Europe there is no more limit for some years but guess what: I've never paid any customs fee on anything I got from China...! Why? Because they are clever. Each air fret container is filled up to the last square centimeter with hundreds of small boxes. Asking the customs to sort the boxes out of a single one would ask for at least a day of work whereas at least dozens of them are arriving daily! So everything's going through...at least for me because it looks only the big boxes are checked. However, if I'm getting anything from Japan the US or 'worse' (the doomed UK brexiters), I'm sure I'll have to pay the VAT, import taxes and a 'handling fee'! But the best part was the announced goal behind the change: protect our economy against Chinese 'unfair' trade... Go figure ... Christa, Fanes and GeeBee 3
nichenson Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 4 hours ago, BloorwestSiR said: An article on CBC says that the de minimis limit on goods from China has been eliminated. The previous limit was $800. Anything under that amount was not subject to duties or federal tax. With that limit gone, anything and everything is subject to the above. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tariff-border-canada-us-1.7450495 We ran into this a bunch when I worked at a children's clothing store shipping orders to the US. Over $800, duties and taxes. Under that amount, nothing except state taxes if applicable. The Canadian de minimis limit is $40 CAD so pretty much anything that enters Canada is subject to it at the discretion of Canada Customs. This is/was the primary reason for the USPS saying no more small packets. They just simply weren't set up for the new change. It happened rather too quickly for them to do anything other than possibly say halt. Their initial public release even said "temporary" in relation to the stoppage, but leave it to the media... CRAZY IVAN5 1
mozart Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 “Interesting” times for one and all……doomed Brexiteer or not! (PS I didn’t vote for it Thierry!) LSP_Matt, wunwinglow, chrish and 5 others 8
cbk57 Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 (edited) Off topic but slightly related, I travel to Canada often as my wife is from there and my son is in College there. First thing I thought when I heard this was to wonder if they were going to start checking everything we buy at the border and sitting forever crossing back and forth. The second thought was whether i need to worry about angry Canadians keying my car when they see my Pa plates. I think my son will cease identifying as American, forget trans. I find it highly embarrassing that we would essentially provoke our best ally. Edited February 5, 2025 by cbk57 Ben Brown, Christa, europapete and 15 others 18
D.B. Andrus Posted February 5, 2025 Posted February 5, 2025 This whole tread is political. Palm-tree, BiggTim, firefly7 and 3 others 6
thierry laurent Posted February 6, 2025 Posted February 6, 2025 On 2/5/2025 at 10:36 PM, mozart said: “Interesting” times for one and all……doomed Brexiteer or not! (PS I didn’t vote for it Thierry!) Sorry for that. I did not want to reopen that can of worms. Actually I just wanted to be somewhat sarcastic about the strategy to use UK as a scapegoat whereas most British people are as well the victims of that stupid situation. For instance, Hannants used to be my main source of aftermarket for decades as well as The Aviation Bookshop for books. Alas this is now the exception rather than the rule. Too bad... chrish, GeeBee, Fanes and 8 others 8 3
LSP_Mike Posted February 7, 2025 Posted February 7, 2025 My favorite new trick is the 1.50- 2.00$ "package insurance" fee.
Rick Griewski Posted February 7, 2025 Posted February 7, 2025 29 minutes ago, LSP_Mike said: My favorite new trick is the 1.50- 2.00$ "package insurance" fee. Insurance to protect against what?
Dave Williams Posted February 7, 2025 Author Posted February 7, 2025 25 minutes ago, Rick Griewski said: Insurance to protect against what? Loss or damage
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