And now, the rest of the story..... The Chinese government also subsidizes the postage, so that cost for their exporters is low. That's how you can pay .99 for the product AND shipping. Clearly they also subsidize the cost of the product itself. There is NO economy where they can build, package, market, sell, and ship a tool of any flavor for .99. And make money.
Terry On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 10:32:15 AM UTC-5, philthepill wrote: > > Wayyyy back in the late 1800's when worldwide postal service began this > was the problem - who pays the receiving country when I send a letter to a > person in another country ( and their postal system). So most of the > countries of the world got together and signed the declaration of the > Universal Postal Union. It said the sending country pays the cost of > delivering mail to a foreign country then the receiving country delivers > the foreign mail without any cost to the sender. You do it for our country > and we do it for yours. It worked well when postal volumes between > countries was small but now the world buys millions of items from China > daily with delivery via postal mail but very few Chinese buy anything from > the rest of the world. So the receiving countries are spending millions > delivering foreign packages and the tax-payer is on the hook. > > We now subsidize shipping from China ! Welcome to the world of being > taken to the cleaners. > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Instrument Resources of America <iraco...@hughes.net <javascript:>> > Date: May 15, 2017 at 10:01 PM > > Speaking of Chinese, I ordered an attachment for my Dremel tool from China > about three weeks ago. It arrived yesterday in the U.S. Mail, as items from > China always do. TOTAL cost for the ITEM and the S & H $.99 (ninety nine > cents). Can anyone here tell how that is done?? Especially since it > involves the U.S. Postal Service??? Thanks Ira. > > On 5/15/2017 6:43 PM, 'threeneurons' via neonixie-l wrote: > > I thought eBay's Global Shipping Program (GSP) was a bad idea, from the > get-go ! Just another reason not to use it. > > When they introduced it, they automatically enabled it, in your settings. > You had to go into your account settings, and turn it off. In general, its > a rip-off ! Just another eBay "profit center". Its bad enough that shipping > things to outside the US, starts at ~$13.50, for a minimal weight parcel > (and upto 8 oz), but if I remember, the fees the GSP charges, are way above > that ! > > Before 2012, you could ship things international, for ~$5. Before 2005, > the postal service still had "surface mail", which meant they waited until > a shipping container was filled up, before sending your parcel off, on a > slow boat to oblivion. Cost was cheap, though it may take up to 3 months to > get to your destination. Chinese still do the same thing, though it > probably takes well less than a week to fill up one of their containers. > > Its best to pack the parcel yourself. Have you ever seen how most parcels > arrive from Amazon, Granger, or McMaster ? The item(s) are usually tossed > into the box, then those inflatable bags are tossed in on top of it. > Padding is most often just the thickness of the cardboard box. That's fine > for screws, and books, and even my kits. But not something you want to see > when shipping a CRT ! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to neoni...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ce9fce59-ba82-462c-b371-0a6935aab451%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ce9fce59-ba82-462c-b371-0a6935aab451%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to neoni...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/5c72d30f-e651-aa1d-a1ba-6c0148b28a8d%40HUGHES.NET > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/5c72d30f-e651-aa1d-a1ba-6c0148b28a8d%40HUGHES.NET?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/aba04f21-3b4e-48ef-b371-40c55e909598%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
