The chicoms got a sweetheart deal with the USPS and are flooding us with crap air mail from china. Especially lightweight stuff like cell phone accessories. Air mail from China is literally cheaper than first class mail. What a scam. Criminal.
Yup, weird. I've bought stuff shipped from China, free shipping, for small amounts. I don't get it. I had an iPad cable get frayed after having it 5 years. I ordered a pack of ten on eBay; the total cost was about $7 for all ten combined, under 70 cents each. They looked like the real Apple iPad cables, but slightly inferior. But they worked. China is definitely flooding us with cheap imports.