#parcels

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Have you enjoyed purchasing things from overseas? Have you delighted in receiving goods from overseas sellers?

Well, turns out, your government isn't helping out anyone with their tariff policy, and Postal carriers across the world are just... no longer accepting commercial parcels to the US. The list (as of August 26th) includes Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Denmark, Japan and Switzerland, and a number of other country's postal services have signalled they'll also be suspending parcel service shortly.

Even better, International Courier services are also suspending commercial parcel service to the US, with DHL being the most high-profile courier to do so.

Why are carriers doing this? Well, there's a few reasons:

There's no longer an exception on Customs for low-value parcels, which means that every parcel needs to be inspected to confirm what's in it, and be charged either the nation's tariff charge, or an US$80 flat fee.

The new requirements from US Customs appear to be rather... unclear, and getting someone in US Customs to clarify matters is proving extremely difficult (like, say, how this tariff is intended to be collected).

Worse, there doesn't seem to be a system to determine where a parcel is in the new customs process.

As a result, parcels are... disappearing, and this is causing some ire for business customers in these nations, because thanks to Trump's previous re-writing of International shipping costs in 2021, it's hellaciously expensive to send parcels to the US now (there used to be a way to send letter-sized parcels on letter rates, but can't do that now), and no-one really wants to resend parcels internationally.

There's no indication as to when this is likely to stop, by the way. Our carriers are all just trying to figure out how to streamline this tariff shit and help customers manage it, buuuuut no one seems able to give anyone any clues. And as such, a bunch of online merchants across the world are just turning off shipping for the US entirely. What else can they do? If we can't get our stuff to you, we can't really accept your money.

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