On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 06:35:34 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:


I'm still wondering how those Chinese on Ebay manage to sell things for
$2, including free shipping to the USA. I just bought a USB hard drive
interface that works with IDE or SATA for $3.75. I got two very long
drill bits for $4. Those would have been $10 at HD, if they even
had them. And there is a lot of stuff on there for just $2,
maybe even $1.

But heh, Trump is going to rescue us from those horrors.

Part of this is the international postal union. Our post office has to
carry Chinese goods at the rate they set. Basically our postal
workers are also competing with the chinese nose to nose.
When I sent some cameras to China my shipping cost was pretty much the
price to get them to Long Beach so there is a flip side to that.
China will dump a container of presorted mail on the dock and USPS
carries from there pretty much for free.