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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35098148

At least 25 countries have decided to suspend package deliveries to the United States, as concern grows over the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s looming tariffs, a UN body said Tuesday.

The Trump administration said late last month that it will abolish a tax exemption on small packages entering the United States from August 29.

The move has sparked a flurry of announcements from postal services, including in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, India, Australia and Japan, that most U.S.-bound packages would no longer be accepted.

The United Nations’ Universal Postal Union said it had already been advised by 25 member countries that their postal operators “have suspended their outbound postal services to the U.S., citing uncertainties specifically related to transit services”.

It said the suspensions will remain in place until there is more clarity on how U.S. authorities plan to implement the announced measures.

The UPU did not provide a list of postal services it had heard from.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

they already sorta did it during april or may. 2 things i ordered from china never came.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago
[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 101 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

So the reason is not that they would need to pay more and don't want to, but that nobody knows who to pay, what to pay, and how to pay. There is literally no way to send a package to the US today and know how much it will cost.

So this is not Trump being aggressive in negotiation, but just being incompetent.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

Trump wants IOSS, just implemented in a week, somehow by someone else than America themselves, and made immediately mandatory.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He is actually extremely competent, if the goal is to destroy US' status as a superpower.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That would explain why he had to check in with his FSB handler in Alaska last week.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Oh my God trump thinks he's trading Alaska for Greenland. It just clicked.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

But he forgot that Greenland has two cannons and 3 horses on it already.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 hours ago

He thrives off making everybody on edge with uncertainty, that's why he won't tell us WHEN he intends to invade Chicago and other big cities

[–] CazzoBuco@lemmy.world 36 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

As someone in logistics software... it ain't pretty

Even if we KNEW all the details, no way do we have enough manpower and system capacity to clear the additional dozens of thousands of shipments that would switch from automatic 86/03 to needing additional clearance details (but we're prepping for it! Only time will tell)

Buckle up America, this week gon be a bumpy ride, and give a lil leeway to the people getting your Temu packages to you, it ain't their choice this is all happening. You know who to blame.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 33 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's the now age old Trump-Tariff faux-paradox ...

Country A has a package to ship to the US ...

The US tells Country A: 'aha tariffs need to be paid"...

Country A says "okay, tell the recipient to pay the tariffs and give us the ok when they did so we can deliver it past your border".

The US gets angry: "no no someone else pays tariffs not us! How dare you put the tariffs on us! Others are supposed to pay!"

Country A mumbles "ok, be that way", returns the package to sender, sender might refund but keeps shipping costs... and the US customer loses out twice.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 21 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Trump is why America can't have nice things

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 28 minutes ago

Americans are why Americans can't have nice things.

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The root cause is a profound anti-intellectual bent.

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Knowing the definition of “fascist” is too intellectual for 90% of America.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

his obssesion with tariffs is one of his identities.

[–] xav@programming.dev 1 points 31 minutes ago

Tariffs and underage girls