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Re:The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China an... by m000 on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:03AM (#23677697)
I'd bet this has to do with capacity, similar with network equipment. If you operate below capacity, it's hard to tell apart a high priority packet from a low priority one. You will start noticing delays in low priority packets only when you start saturating your network capacity.
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Re:The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China an... by bnchrch on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:39AM (#23677994)
Actually it has to do with how international shipping rates are arbitrarily set by committee every 4 years.

Here’s a planet money episode on the topic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...

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