See the attached, its an email from Amazon promoting their own shipping service between China and the USA. Its an insult to anyone who makes a product in the USA, as they are raising shipping costs for USA manufacturers with multiple tricks, starting with “split shipments” which make pallets less economical.
I distill a product, and I make my steam here in the USA with an array of tracking solar parabolic collectors and heat exchangers, so I have everyone riding my butt from ATF (who thinks I might be distilling booze, but still - what a country! All the good stuff is in one department - Alcohol, Tobacco, AND Firearms - sounds like a weekend in Vegas more than a federal agency) to the Dept of Homeland Security who is absolutely sure that it will all explode, as they read that long ago, steam engines used to do that. But I want a zero carbon footprint, and I have it.
So my costs are FAR higher than they would be if I just farmed out manufacturing to China, where they would use coal-fired electricity, and likely not even give the employees decent workboots or safety glasses.
But Amazon just loves China, at least until the NEXT even lower-cost manufacturing option appears. And they let them put bogus stickers about “made in USA” on their crap, and so on.
