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Have a word with the President please guys. This is nothing short of madness.
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over here in the Netherlands most parcel delivery companies have stopped their services to the USA as well and I see lots of companies saying that they have stopped accepting orders from US customers for the time being. I have also removed that destination in my settings for discogs, where I try to sell some of my duplicate / no longer wanted cds and records. Too much confusion, apart from the fact that sending parcels overseas has become very expensive anyway.
It seems that letters are not affected, so I can still send stamps bought here, which I have been shipping as normal letters without any customs declarations anyway 
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We can still send handwritten letters and postcards without a problem. Gifts up to $100 USD are OK as well. However even gifts require customs declarations that comply with the US's requirements. Any enclosures that may be deemed as not a gift are subject to return-to-sender and a fine.
That's about a third of my sales lost
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Royal Mail have joined the suspension to the US with nothing being accepted at all even though anything under $100 would not be liable for tariffs.
The postal systems of the world are a bunch of useless self serving incompetents and the politicians of these countries are the same!!
I already have some items in the system. All are less than $100.
So I now have a few days/weeks/months/years of a holiday??
We have a saying in Old Caledonia "If it wasn't so pathetic it would be laughable".
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The following services will be suspended as of August 25, 2025:
- Mail and parcel deliveries containing goods (excluding Chronopost)
- Sales of postage for mail and parcels to the United States at post offices, except for postage for mail containing documents on laposte.fr
- Acceptance of parcels for shipment to the United States at post offices, except Chronopost
The following will continue as normal as they are not affected by these taxes:
- Gifts sent between individuals worth less than €80/$100 per parcel
- Shipments via Chronopost
- Mail containing only documents
We are doing everything possible to resume all shipments in accordance with the new regulations as soon as possible.
link : https://aide.laposte.fr/contenu/quelle-est-la-nouvelle-reglementation-pour-les-envois-vers-les-etats-unis
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The tariffs are working out very well. The CBO (nonpartisan and fiercely independent) just last week released a report showing that the tariffs have reduced the deficit $4 trillion.
The real motive behind the executive order mentioned was the flood of fentanyl poisoning our people.
If we have to tick off a few penny ante stamp dealers so be it.
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Please tell me you're joking.
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I am not going to respond to that. Forbidden territory.
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You just did respond to it!
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Yes, I did, didn't I? Shame on me.
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THANKS ERNIE!!
We have a saying in Old Caledonia "I hope that your next poop is a PORCUPINE!!"
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Ian, haha. Come on man I know you like me better than that.
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Excuse this stupid question, especially since this string is titled "Postage to the US", but is mail from the US to Canada affected in any way? No big fancy explanation needed and please don't make fun of my obvious ignorance of the topic, just a simple answer please. I don't follow the news anymore, way too depressing, so I rarely know what's goin' on!!
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This statement is not true.
" the tariffs have reduced the deficit $4 trillion."
1) The CBO is referring to the debt not the deficit.
2) The calculation as based on 10 years of the proposed tariffs.
3) The calculation is based on no reduction in imports resulting from the tariffs.
4) The calculation assumes no recession triggered by tariffs. The last time the U.S. experimented with tariffs to raise revenue we experienced the Great Depression.
Any fentanyl entering the U.S. illegally is smuggled, so no tariffs are involved.
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this is what the PostNL website says (translated automatically into English):
The United States (US) will only accept goods from abroad if they are aware of their contents in advance and if the import duties have been paid in advance. US Customs is not sufficiently prepared to implement the new legislation. Therefore, it is temporarily no longer possible to send parcels and packages to the United States. Mailing letters remains possible.
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Thank you Harry, someone who reads past the headlines.
Is the Fentanyl coming into the USA not being allowed in by USA border guards/personnel? Vehicles/people are not searched at the border in ther originating countries.
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"is mail from the US to Canada affected in any way?"
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Not a stupid question. Many countries including Canada have enacted retaliatory tariffs against U.S. exports; however, earlier this month Canada suspended most of these tariffs, so mail from U.S. to Canada should not be affected.
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Smugglers can be very ingenious. Drugs can be concealed in fuel tanks, tires and inside products being shipped.
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Harry, yes very true and the guns etc coming the other way are also very well hidden and are being missed by the border guards in Canada and Mexico and no doubt much other illegal merchandise.
It is unfortunately a world wide problem to which a solution seems far away.
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A bit off topic, but here's a very short true story. A friend of a friend visited Mexico quite a few years ago and while he was there someone managed to hide drugs under his car with the intention, I assume, of removing them later. Unfortunately he was stopped at the Mexico US border, his car was searched and he was put in jail. The only way he got out was by having his friends come up with a substantial sum of money! I promise I did not make this up even though it sounds very unlikely! I actually contributed to his release fund and made sure the money was sent.
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I looked at the CBO, and they did, in fact, report on the projected effects of the tariffs on the US deficit. As Harry has already pointed out, those are projections over a 10-year period; they are not the current effects of the tariffs. That is, "
"The CBO (nonpartisan and fiercely independent) just last week released a report showing that the tariffs have reduced the deficit $4 trillion"
You can read the CBO's projection here: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61697#
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Just add this to your shpping cost.
Bottom line if you have good material that I'm looking for I pay. If you don't have what I want no sale.
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On Tuesday 26 August, the United Nations (UN) postal agency reported that total of 25 countries had decided to suspend
parcel deliveries to the United States due to uncertainties surrounding the impact of imminent customs duties imposed by US President Donald Trump.
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/08/26/droits-de-douane-25-pays-suspendent-l-envoi-de-colis-vers-les-etats-unis_6635768_3234.html
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We will just have to wait and see what happens over the next few days.
Dozens of postal and freight companies from around the world have stopped accepting items for the USA.
Just consider this. This affects EVERY letter, parcel and piece of Freight entering or leaving the USA.
What happens when DHL, UPS, USPS etc etc start to lay off workers, ground aeroplanes, stop replacing vehicles etc etc etc.
Airports will lose landing fees. Container terminals will start to lay off workers, Less business for truckers.
As Harry says "The Great Depression!"
Some postal companies have stopped accepting mail FROM the USA and I believe Canada is one of them.
We have a saying in Old Caledonia "What is good for the goose is good for the gander".
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I'm sure Canada Post is accepting USA mail. It did stop during the postal strike at the end of 2024 but resumed in January this year.
I can find nothing suggesting else-wise on Canada Post website.
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Royal Mail's website makes no mention of the suspension at all. Yet it is in place!!
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"Just add this to your shpping cost.
Bottom line if you have good material that I'm looking for I pay. If you don't have what I want no sale."
Passing on the cost aside, who's going to do the admin behind this? The forms, the tariff payment, the accounting etc etc etc? I'm a one-man band. I don't work for US Customs, I work for myself. This is the same reason I refuse to use self-checkout at the supermarket, they have employees and I'm not one of them.
Harvey, Canada isn't affected by this. Please by a third of my stock to make up for my losses
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If you have alot of customers in the United States, this could be bad for your business!
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No kidding! I'm already aware of one small Australian company that's closing it's doors due to the tariffs. I'm not going to be another one. If I sell you a stamp for $100 on Ebay, you pay a 15.4% tariff, plus sales tax, plus shipping via a new "approved" shipping company (membership of which will cost me around $4k per annum), at a rate "to be confirmed". Sales will drop automatically as customers in the US could source the item cheaper in the US.
Why would I bother? I'll simply re-target my business and aim for countries where doing business is easier.
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Here is the latest I can find, NOT on Royal Mail Website but the Independent newspaper:-
"It will launch a new service - US Postal Delivered Duties Paid - for packages sent to the US, expected to open on Thursday.
The organisation said postage pricing will remain the same, but Royal Mail will add 50p per parcel handling charge to “cover the additional costs associated with providing clearance services into the USA”, which will be invoiced as a handling fee.
A spokesperson told The Independent: “We have been working hard with US authorities and international partners to adapt our services to meet the new US de minimis requirements so UK consumers and businesses can continue to use our services when they come into effect"
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Just one more note on tariffs, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell (NOT a Trump ally by any means) basically said last week in WY that the tariffs HAVE NOT caused inflation to overheat as many doom and gloom folks had anticipated. They prolly gonna be lowering the rates at the next meeting.
Yall just gotta suck it up and get used to it. 'Merica is back.
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Here is what Jerome Powell actually said.
""In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside—a challenging situation," Powell said.
Central banks typically cut rates to boost growth if there are signs of slowing economy and falling employment, as it makes it cheaper for consumers and businesses to borrow.
But boosting growth has to be balanced with keeping a check on rising prices. Higher interest rates can help control inflation, which is often seen as a central bank's main priority.
Powell said the effects of tariffs on consumer prices were now "clearly visible" but said that there was a "reasonable" case to be made that inflation would be "relatively short lived - a one-time shift in the price level".
He said it would take time for the price changes to work their way through, but he downplayed the likelihood of inflation becoming embedded due to increased wage demands, or higher inflation expectations.
As interest rates were already "in restrictive territory" - high enough to be having a dampening impact on economic activity - Powell suggested that "the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance"
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This post on the Norvic site explains the current UK Royal Mail situation.
https://blog.norphil.co.uk/2025/08/packe ...
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In Mexico, they have just suspended all shipments to the U.S.A., this includes simple envelopes or 20-gram letters, until further notice.
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Seems like an over reaction, in the end the buyer will be charge more!
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During his final address as Federal Reserve Chair at the Jackson Hole economic symposium on August 22, 2025, Jerome Powell cautioned that the effects of Donald Trump's tariffs were "clearly visible" in some consumer prices. He warned that this upward price pressure was a risk that could create a "more lasting inflation dynamic".
Ernie,
I don't know where you are getting your misinformation, but I suggest you get your news from a more reliable source.
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"Yall just gotta suck it up and get used to it. 'Merica is back."
I, for one, will never "suck it up" and "get used to it". I will fight Fascism to my dying breadth. 'Merica may be back, but the United States is NO LONGER the country my forefathers fought for.
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Different news outlets are spinning the Chairman's words in different ways.
He begrudgingly admitted that no, the sky is not falling because of tarrifs.
Harry, go take two Tylenol and have a rest.
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if it ain't postage, it don't belong here.
I think adding Powell and Trump to this mix is running afoul of the spirit of the board.
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David, with all due respect, wasn't the original post encouraging people to contact the President about the tarrifs a violation of our rules?
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"wasn't the original post encouraging people to contact the President about the tarrifs (sic) a violation of our rules?"
No, it is not a violation of our rules. Encouraging people to exercise their constitutional rights to petition our government should never be a violation of any rule. The U.S. Constitution is a very interesting document. You should try reading it sometime.
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Baloney. It was absolutely a political post. I'm used to it though. Been happening for years. The only political posts that raise eyebrows are the ones right-of-center.
Carry on.
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Well Ernie, I guess you just gotta suck it up and get used to it.
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Harry, oh, I have. Life is good!
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Guys, I'm closing this before this starts to get really nasty. Why do you have to do this??? This was a really good informative discussion.
Regards ... Tim
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Effective immediately, thanks to US Executive Order 14324, Australia has suspended most postal services to the US. The tariff kerfuffle means that no retail item will be accepted by the US unless the customs duty is paid by the sender (!!) before posting. I've accordingly blocked the US as a destination on my website, Ebay and Ebid.
Have a word with the President please guys. This is nothing short of madness.
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over here in the Netherlands most parcel delivery companies have stopped their services to the USA as well and I see lots of companies saying that they have stopped accepting orders from US customers for the time being. I have also removed that destination in my settings for discogs, where I try to sell some of my duplicate / no longer wanted cds and records. Too much confusion, apart from the fact that sending parcels overseas has become very expensive anyway.
It seems that letters are not affected, so I can still send stamps bought here, which I have been shipping as normal letters without any customs declarations anyway
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We can still send handwritten letters and postcards without a problem. Gifts up to $100 USD are OK as well. However even gifts require customs declarations that comply with the US's requirements. Any enclosures that may be deemed as not a gift are subject to return-to-sender and a fine.
That's about a third of my sales lost
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Royal Mail have joined the suspension to the US with nothing being accepted at all even though anything under $100 would not be liable for tariffs.
The postal systems of the world are a bunch of useless self serving incompetents and the politicians of these countries are the same!!
I already have some items in the system. All are less than $100.
So I now have a few days/weeks/months/years of a holiday??
We have a saying in Old Caledonia "If it wasn't so pathetic it would be laughable".
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Laposte.fr
The following services will be suspended as of August 25, 2025:
- Mail and parcel deliveries containing goods (excluding Chronopost)
- Sales of postage for mail and parcels to the United States at post offices, except for postage for mail containing documents on laposte.fr
- Acceptance of parcels for shipment to the United States at post offices, except Chronopost
The following will continue as normal as they are not affected by these taxes:
- Gifts sent between individuals worth less than €80/$100 per parcel
- Shipments via Chronopost
- Mail containing only documents
We are doing everything possible to resume all shipments in accordance with the new regulations as soon as possible.
link : https://aide.laposte.fr/contenu/quelle-est-la-nouvelle-reglementation-pour-les-envois-vers-les-etats-unis
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The tariffs are working out very well. The CBO (nonpartisan and fiercely independent) just last week released a report showing that the tariffs have reduced the deficit $4 trillion.
The real motive behind the executive order mentioned was the flood of fentanyl poisoning our people.
If we have to tick off a few penny ante stamp dealers so be it.
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Please tell me you're joking.
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I am not going to respond to that. Forbidden territory.
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You just did respond to it!
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Yes, I did, didn't I? Shame on me.
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THANKS ERNIE!!
We have a saying in Old Caledonia "I hope that your next poop is a PORCUPINE!!"
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Ian, haha. Come on man I know you like me better than that.
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Excuse this stupid question, especially since this string is titled "Postage to the US", but is mail from the US to Canada affected in any way? No big fancy explanation needed and please don't make fun of my obvious ignorance of the topic, just a simple answer please. I don't follow the news anymore, way too depressing, so I rarely know what's goin' on!!
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This statement is not true.
" the tariffs have reduced the deficit $4 trillion."
1) The CBO is referring to the debt not the deficit.
2) The calculation as based on 10 years of the proposed tariffs.
3) The calculation is based on no reduction in imports resulting from the tariffs.
4) The calculation assumes no recession triggered by tariffs. The last time the U.S. experimented with tariffs to raise revenue we experienced the Great Depression.
Any fentanyl entering the U.S. illegally is smuggled, so no tariffs are involved.
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this is what the PostNL website says (translated automatically into English):
The United States (US) will only accept goods from abroad if they are aware of their contents in advance and if the import duties have been paid in advance. US Customs is not sufficiently prepared to implement the new legislation. Therefore, it is temporarily no longer possible to send parcels and packages to the United States. Mailing letters remains possible.
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Thank you Harry, someone who reads past the headlines.
Is the Fentanyl coming into the USA not being allowed in by USA border guards/personnel? Vehicles/people are not searched at the border in ther originating countries.
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"is mail from the US to Canada affected in any way?"
Joe,
Not a stupid question. Many countries including Canada have enacted retaliatory tariffs against U.S. exports; however, earlier this month Canada suspended most of these tariffs, so mail from U.S. to Canada should not be affected.
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Smugglers can be very ingenious. Drugs can be concealed in fuel tanks, tires and inside products being shipped.
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Harry, yes very true and the guns etc coming the other way are also very well hidden and are being missed by the border guards in Canada and Mexico and no doubt much other illegal merchandise.
It is unfortunately a world wide problem to which a solution seems far away.
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A bit off topic, but here's a very short true story. A friend of a friend visited Mexico quite a few years ago and while he was there someone managed to hide drugs under his car with the intention, I assume, of removing them later. Unfortunately he was stopped at the Mexico US border, his car was searched and he was put in jail. The only way he got out was by having his friends come up with a substantial sum of money! I promise I did not make this up even though it sounds very unlikely! I actually contributed to his release fund and made sure the money was sent.
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I looked at the CBO, and they did, in fact, report on the projected effects of the tariffs on the US deficit. As Harry has already pointed out, those are projections over a 10-year period; they are not the current effects of the tariffs. That is, "
"The CBO (nonpartisan and fiercely independent) just last week released a report showing that the tariffs have reduced the deficit $4 trillion"
You can read the CBO's projection here: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61697#
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Just add this to your shpping cost.
Bottom line if you have good material that I'm looking for I pay. If you don't have what I want no sale.
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On Tuesday 26 August, the United Nations (UN) postal agency reported that total of 25 countries had decided to suspend
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https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/08/26/droits-de-douane-25-pays-suspendent-l-envoi-de-colis-vers-les-etats-unis_6635768_3234.html
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We will just have to wait and see what happens over the next few days.
Dozens of postal and freight companies from around the world have stopped accepting items for the USA.
Just consider this. This affects EVERY letter, parcel and piece of Freight entering or leaving the USA.
What happens when DHL, UPS, USPS etc etc start to lay off workers, ground aeroplanes, stop replacing vehicles etc etc etc.
Airports will lose landing fees. Container terminals will start to lay off workers, Less business for truckers.
As Harry says "The Great Depression!"
Some postal companies have stopped accepting mail FROM the USA and I believe Canada is one of them.
We have a saying in Old Caledonia "What is good for the goose is good for the gander".
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I'm sure Canada Post is accepting USA mail. It did stop during the postal strike at the end of 2024 but resumed in January this year.
I can find nothing suggesting else-wise on Canada Post website.
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Royal Mail's website makes no mention of the suspension at all. Yet it is in place!!
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"Just add this to your shpping cost.
Bottom line if you have good material that I'm looking for I pay. If you don't have what I want no sale."
Passing on the cost aside, who's going to do the admin behind this? The forms, the tariff payment, the accounting etc etc etc? I'm a one-man band. I don't work for US Customs, I work for myself. This is the same reason I refuse to use self-checkout at the supermarket, they have employees and I'm not one of them.
Harvey, Canada isn't affected by this. Please by a third of my stock to make up for my losses
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If you have alot of customers in the United States, this could be bad for your business!
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No kidding! I'm already aware of one small Australian company that's closing it's doors due to the tariffs. I'm not going to be another one. If I sell you a stamp for $100 on Ebay, you pay a 15.4% tariff, plus sales tax, plus shipping via a new "approved" shipping company (membership of which will cost me around $4k per annum), at a rate "to be confirmed". Sales will drop automatically as customers in the US could source the item cheaper in the US.
Why would I bother? I'll simply re-target my business and aim for countries where doing business is easier.
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Here is the latest I can find, NOT on Royal Mail Website but the Independent newspaper:-
"It will launch a new service - US Postal Delivered Duties Paid - for packages sent to the US, expected to open on Thursday.
The organisation said postage pricing will remain the same, but Royal Mail will add 50p per parcel handling charge to “cover the additional costs associated with providing clearance services into the USA”, which will be invoiced as a handling fee.
A spokesperson told The Independent: “We have been working hard with US authorities and international partners to adapt our services to meet the new US de minimis requirements so UK consumers and businesses can continue to use our services when they come into effect"
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Just one more note on tariffs, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell (NOT a Trump ally by any means) basically said last week in WY that the tariffs HAVE NOT caused inflation to overheat as many doom and gloom folks had anticipated. They prolly gonna be lowering the rates at the next meeting.
Yall just gotta suck it up and get used to it. 'Merica is back.
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Here is what Jerome Powell actually said.
""In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside—a challenging situation," Powell said.
Central banks typically cut rates to boost growth if there are signs of slowing economy and falling employment, as it makes it cheaper for consumers and businesses to borrow.
But boosting growth has to be balanced with keeping a check on rising prices. Higher interest rates can help control inflation, which is often seen as a central bank's main priority.
Powell said the effects of tariffs on consumer prices were now "clearly visible" but said that there was a "reasonable" case to be made that inflation would be "relatively short lived - a one-time shift in the price level".
He said it would take time for the price changes to work their way through, but he downplayed the likelihood of inflation becoming embedded due to increased wage demands, or higher inflation expectations.
As interest rates were already "in restrictive territory" - high enough to be having a dampening impact on economic activity - Powell suggested that "the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance"
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This post on the Norvic site explains the current UK Royal Mail situation.
https://blog.norphil.co.uk/2025/08/packe ...
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In Mexico, they have just suspended all shipments to the U.S.A., this includes simple envelopes or 20-gram letters, until further notice.
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Seems like an over reaction, in the end the buyer will be charge more!
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During his final address as Federal Reserve Chair at the Jackson Hole economic symposium on August 22, 2025, Jerome Powell cautioned that the effects of Donald Trump's tariffs were "clearly visible" in some consumer prices. He warned that this upward price pressure was a risk that could create a "more lasting inflation dynamic".
Ernie,
I don't know where you are getting your misinformation, but I suggest you get your news from a more reliable source.
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"Yall just gotta suck it up and get used to it. 'Merica is back."
I, for one, will never "suck it up" and "get used to it". I will fight Fascism to my dying breadth. 'Merica may be back, but the United States is NO LONGER the country my forefathers fought for.
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Different news outlets are spinning the Chairman's words in different ways.
He begrudgingly admitted that no, the sky is not falling because of tarrifs.
Harry, go take two Tylenol and have a rest.
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if it ain't postage, it don't belong here.
I think adding Powell and Trump to this mix is running afoul of the spirit of the board.
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David, with all due respect, wasn't the original post encouraging people to contact the President about the tarrifs a violation of our rules?
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"wasn't the original post encouraging people to contact the President about the tarrifs (sic) a violation of our rules?"
No, it is not a violation of our rules. Encouraging people to exercise their constitutional rights to petition our government should never be a violation of any rule. The U.S. Constitution is a very interesting document. You should try reading it sometime.
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Baloney. It was absolutely a political post. I'm used to it though. Been happening for years. The only political posts that raise eyebrows are the ones right-of-center.
Carry on.
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Well Ernie, I guess you just gotta suck it up and get used to it.
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Harry, oh, I have. Life is good!
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Guys, I'm closing this before this starts to get really nasty. Why do you have to do this??? This was a really good informative discussion.
Regards ... Tim
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