Originally posted by: Californication
Trump is a jackass.
In general, yes.
But not for this particular issue.
Chinese shippers have been abusing our reciprocal shipping agreement for a long time and costing USPS a lot of money in the process.
We get a flood of items on sites like ebay that cost $0.99 with free shipping from mainland china.
Chinese mail then gets subsidized on their end allowing sellers to offer such ridiculous rates.
USPS effectively gets NOTHING but has to handle the shipping and logistics once it enters the country.
The amount of goods going the other direction into mainland china, for USPS to get paid and China's mail service to "do their part" might as well be zero.
This is a legitimate problem for USPS, and has needed to be fixed for a long time.