MY LOL MOMENT: American sellers complain about the 'high cost' of domestic tracking

[momcqueen]

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2016/9/1473206543.html

The story is about a competing marketplace require sellers now use tracked shipping service as opposed to el cheapo lettermail. 

Here is the punchline: "A seller on the A****n boards described the dilemma - it costs the seller $2.60 for a tracked package, and it costs 50 cents* for an envelope."

Fifty cents to our dollar for untraced domestic lettermail versus $2.60 USD to $10 CAD. 

*American domestic stamps are actually 47 cents USD so maybe the seller means to buy an envelope. No matter, even with the USD to CAD currency exchange, there is no competing with USPS postal rates if you are a Canadian seller using Canada Post. 

I just thought it was funny to hear an American complain about it. 

[reallynicestamps]

As my late mother would put it, "They don't know they're born."

Americans also think they are over-taxed

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes-compare-internationally

[ypdc_dennis]

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@mjwl2006 wrote:

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2016/9/1473206543.html

The story is about a competing marketplace require sellers now use tracked shipping service as opposed to el cheapo lettermail. 

Here is the punchline: "A seller on the A****n boards described the dilemma - it costs the seller $2.60 for a tracked package, and it costs 50 cents* for an envelope."

 

I just thought it was funny to hear an American complain about it. 

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The pain these Americans are expressing is not about the USPS prices. It is about the new A-river requirement to have tracking on items as low as $10 in value that formerly could be sent as a letter. Where that extra tracking cost comes directly out of profit.

Plus if the item was originally being sent in an envelope they now must change their packaging to have it qualify as a USPS parcel.

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USPS $2.60us tracked would be $3.50cdn for a 100g tracked packet (not available in Canada).

Canada Post really needs to add small packet as a domestic service for Canada.

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[momcqueen]

Small packet domestic for Canada Post = yes.

[cooltoycars]

They complain that the US Postal Service runs every year at a deficit but continue to "subsidize" shipping to the tune of 50%! US rates would need to double in order to pay for the actual cost to deliver the mail.