Will they be fixing the postage problem? Currently, Chinese goods are able to access our postal system for pennies while our shipping overseas is astronomically expensive. This needs to stop.
Actually, the postal access is free.
I received some small plastic wash bottles shipped via USPS from Hong Kong. The postage label was originated by the shipper in China. The amount of postage indicated as paid was 0.00.
Apparently since it was a foreign, that is USA, mailing the shipper paid nothing into the China Postal system. The USA postal system carried the burden of transport and delivery.
The purchase was two 250 ml polyethylene. The price on ebay was $1.43 with free delivery.
Will they be fixing the postage problem?
Yes, that problem is being worked.
The favorable postage rates for China, come from our membership in the Switzerland-based Universal Postal Union. China gets this subsidy under a provision granted in 1969 to encourage growth in poor countries, that remains in effect despite China’s emergence as an economic juggernaut.
President Trump’s announced last October that the United States would withdraw from the organization (basically over this issue with China). Withdrawal is a year-long process however, and the State Department is negotiating for better rates for U.S. shippers, so the subsidies remain in place in the meantime.