U.S. Threat to Withdraw From Postal Treaty Prompts Emergency Talks

[customerserviceguy]

15. There's all kinds of sweetheart deals out there on shipping

About a dozen years ago, I worked for a company that sold medical scopes (like for endoscopy, colonoscopy, etc.) and on occasion, I had to look up shipping information. The cost for UPS shipping was so low it staggered me, as I've gone to UPS to ship things just as heavy and bulky, and paid a lot more for it.

However, if UPS decided that it could give my company a deal and still make money on volume, that's their business decision. Sounds to me like ordinary mailers are subsidizing the cost of shipping things from China, and while that might have made sense fifty years ago, it surely doesn't now.