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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by beowulfey on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:47AM (#20810887)
It's not really a subsidy so much as an underpayment by the foreign goverments[1]. There is no tax money involved, and all the subsidizing comes from the increased revenue from raising domestic shipping costs.

The UPU has been around for decades, but it's only been since 2010 that the USPS has formalized the process with the "ePacket" shipping.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...

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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by defertoreptar on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:08PM (#20813343)
> There is no tax money involved, and all the subsidizing comes from the increased revenue from raising domestic shipping costs.

If the USPS loses money, which it has been every year recently, who pays the difference?

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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by beowulfey on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:06PM (#20873038)
We do, the domestic customers of the USPS. But not via tax money; rather via increased local rates.
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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by ikeboy on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:44PM (#20812463)
UPU and epacket are different things, and epacket is currently profitable for the USPS.
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