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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by lonelappde on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:47PM (#20811731)
This ignores the actual reason, which is that USPS charges less for China->US movement than domestic movement even after bundling like Amazon does at the warehouse.
Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by SmartJerry on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:49PM (#20816165)
Exactly this. It has nothing to do with the boat cost or economies of scale because once it arrives it has to still go that last mile - or last hundred miles within the U.S. the same as any package.