Re: post 43, why would you want to make US consumers pay more in postage on orders from overseas? Unless you see overseas companies as competition and want to cripple the competition. I’m a consumer and I appreciate finding the best possible price.
Are you a taxpayer? Makes no sense for the US TAXPAYERS to subsidize Chinese jobs which is what is happening here. It should never be cheaper to air mail thousands of miles away than across the street. There is nothing “competitive” about crony capitalism like that. Unsurprisingly, US businesses get no such deals shipping TO China.
Alibaba sells tons of counterfeit products, using low resolution images from hundreds of artists, stolen without permission. I know this for a FACT, as they have stolen much of my art. They also then sell crappy low resolution blurry products, using our art, on Amazon. It has been a long horrible battle. That is just art. Both alibaba and amazon, sell counterfeit products of many other things as well. I wish Trump would put the immediate Thump to this!