Small Packets from China to Get More Expensive

by: pace306

Hopefully this will throw a monkey wrench into DW's plans!

by: Chicago48

OT:  Is anybody else having problems with the USPS SCANNING packages?  I have mailed two packages last week and they have not been scanned.  Thanks for your answer.
As for the China postage, postage is going up all over.  I cringe to think about the cost increase for Canada.

by: toolguy

@Chicago48

Either I set them out for my carrier who scans them or I wait in line at the Post Office to get them scanned.

I stopped dropping them off or putting them down the chute months ago without any scan. . .

by: SellerGirl

What is welcome about a raise in shipping costs from China?  Some of my raw materials come from China and only China, there are NO US suppliers for these materials.  Now those products, which I buy in small packets because they are expensive and ever-changing, will cost me more.  Should I let my profits take a hit or charge the customers more?

by: Slowest Learner

Good, level the playing field!  I've seen Chinese sellers sell identical stuff to what I sell, and they've been selling it for less than what it costs me to ship!

by: hopeforthebest

I am also having the scanning issue, every day I have 2-3 customers going nuts, wanting to know why their package still shows ''pre-transit'', it's an issue that has been going on since before Christmas.

by: Chicago48

@Sellergirl - I think we're all going to feel the pain, buyer & seller.  I buy small electronics and Ink from China.  I can't get a good low price for those items.  I'm going to order NOW before it goes higher.
@Hope for the best -- thanks.
To all -- how will this effect sites like Poshmark that send us a prepaid postage?  Looks like we'll have to hike our prices to cover the cost of USPS postage going up today.

by: thehosst

Hold on folks, is the increase going to be 1 penny per lb???.. I think it should be at least what it costs to send from USA to China, but the other side is, when will eBay charge the same costs to list items to China and India dropshippers, it charges to USA and EU sellers?  

by: maxmad

a few cents more, won't change a thing, China is laughing at the west,
it's business as usual,

by: Ina

"Regular" USPS Postage rate increase (including domestic): January 27, 2019

Yesterday's announcement paves the way for higher costs for imports.

by: Flying Childers

I used to think that this would be a big deal and very helpful to small US sellers, but I have since changed my mind.  

I too buy a lot of my supplies that come from China, for one of my handmade shops.  When those prices go up, I'll have to add it to the cost of the items.  My fear is that whenever the Gov'mint gets  involved, it just makes things worse all around.

If Ebay and Etsy want to do something to help the beleaguered sellers, they don't have to ask the Feds to step in.  

How about if they just gave us a fair deal- show ALL the listings that people are looking for in search, go back to the old payment system where Etsy allowed bill payments throughout the month, and a hundred other things that the Ebay sellers have posted in these pages.

by: lessthanthreerecords

I get the idea of "leveling the playing field," but my main problem with Chinese sellers paying less to ship to the U.S. than I pay to ship to the U.S. (from the U.S.), is not the level playing field, but the fact that the money USPS loses on inbound packages from China is made up for on the backs of domestic shippers.  However, my domestic rates are going up too!

by: semper fi

Yes we see on  a daily basis that a seller is located in China but ships within the US. So ebay is taking the huge profit it makes off the US sellers and uses it to subsidize the Chinese to flood our market place in the US by warehousing and shipping goods for them at no cost. There is a lawsuit just waiting to be filed by the right law firm who will bring ebay to it's knees,

by: CanBrit

@Chicago48

We always take our packages to the postal station. Even still, I've checked the packages on our return and found that 1, sometime 2 haven't scanned properly. One of the postal employees did say they had problems with their scanners.

by: NoMoreEbay

Music to my ears. I can't think of a more deserving company to lose it's favorite seller base and billions along with it. BRAVO!

Sure to follow will be the disingenuous 'we love US sellers' campaign. With Kupbeans throwing around words like nimble and pivot. LOL  

by: Whatever

until people stop buy cheap shite from china nothing changes - go watch that movie Crazy Rich Asians - pretty eye opening - Americans just don't get it

by: Rexford

"US sellers have reason to believe that the shipping-cost playing field will soon become more level."

Ha!  Folks are deluding themselves.  As long as warehouses exist in the USA and as long as China can manufacture products at a much lower price that companies in the US do it will have little or no impact on a "level playing field".

What it will do however is raise prices on folks who import raw materials (see SellerGirl's comment) from China to create products.  Small sellers who import items to sell will also be affected.

It's a global economy.  You either embrace it or you live in 1945.  And you still have to live with USPS raising shipping costs  in the USA EVERY year.

by: Rexford

"Whatever", can you tell me what you know about products from China?  Cheap products come out of every country in the world.  There are also high end products coming out of every country in the world, including China.

Are you aware that Prada, Burberry, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Miu Miu are producing products in China?    China is no more the "bogey man" than the USA is.  Global economy.  

by: Vernfern

IMHO the increase in ePacket cost is simply ear and eye candy for those who don't grasp the real situation. Political feather in the cap and little more. Now if there was a significant change in shipping cost to only consumer destinations or a removal of the subsidized ePacket option - maybe that would be a positive change.

As it is, it's just political brag candy and nothing more.

by: Rexford

"As it is, it's just political brag candy and nothing more."

BINGO!