Feb. 5, 8:15 a.m. ESTThe United State Postal Service said it will âcontinue accepting all international inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts,â reversing its decision to suspend inbound packages from China and Hong Kong on Tuesday night.
The postal service noted that it is working closely with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to âimplement an efficient collection mechanism for the new China tariffs to ensure the least disruption to package delivery.â
Every freaking day is a roller coaster of a fire drill. Every. Day
1445 more to go.
I am wondering if they just stopped the flow because CBP had to have shippers store all the inspected units and figure out a plan for increased inspection logistics. Canât exactly leave them at the airport as many are air shipments.
Hiring freezes and downsizing doesnât work that way, but I see your point
I meant if they wanted to inspect 100% of the packages or increase the % of inspected units, they would slow down the throughput. But same result.
On a positive note, for RA sellers, Costco is switching from Pepsi to Coke in the food court so that is a win.
I do not get how this, âSending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaosâ is a reality. Now, it will cause pain and suffering to those in China shipping goods by e-packet to customers in the US. It will not affect those in China, sending items to Fulfillment Centers here in the USA.
We buy one component in our product line from China, it is shipped by air. So no issue with the loss of e-Packet. That results in our product being 98.9% Made in America. So I am ok with that. I would like to use a US firm, or make it ourselves, sadly that is not possible.
Yes but the overwhelming majority of stupid Americans are also poor, and want their cheap Chinese junk over any American interests, even if it means their own jobs. So the âchaosâ is for Chinese sellers as well as the mouth breathers that canât even google de minimus let alone comprehend its modern economic ramifications.
My thought is that this was something that was going to be implemented by a certain date and someone jumped the gun and introduced it right away and realizing the âmistakeâ backtracked it 12 hours later.
I think what the overall aim is to show âspending is upâ. I wonder just how many people went out and bought cars or major appliances during that âwindowâ of when the tarrifs were announced vs when they were supposed to take effect? They still have that âwindowâ as well with the pause. I know I read somewhere that spending was up in JanuaryâŚ.well no crap everyone wants to be prepared itâs not normal spending, we all know January is notoriously slow. So for us to have a strong January itâs a way to be like ânothing wrong here in the USA â and then boom 6 months later probably a recession / depression. Smoke and mirrors lol.
With the stopping of the usps right away there was no time to âstock upâ for people that might import stuff from China (my hubby has a side project coding software for cars and occasionally imports pcb boards from China), so I think someone somewhere quickly cried âfoulâ and 12 hours later itâs backtracked.
Itâs really just so sus and we will never really know.
damn we got a real Shakespeare over here 
SoâŚitâs been a helluva Wednesday, I havenât had any time to check news OR here, so to see this just now makes me sick.
Yay for restored service and hopefully a degree less chaos in the moment, but HUGE BOO at the dismal communication, zero planning, and âmove fast and break thingsâ approach except the things are peopleâs lives and livelihood. 
I am so sorry for US ecomm sellers who use any supplies or components sourced from any of whatever locales are being shaken up this particular hour.
Holy fâ 
I only use 2 small packaging components I get from Aliexpress, that are shipped from sellers using e-packets. I only order these a couple times a year so I can afford to wait if there is a backlog. As far as the price, it could be affected by either, elimination of e-packets, a blanket tariff, or elimination of de minimus exemption or all 3 
. Iâll adjust either way but it would be nice to plan ahead.
If they would switch to MEXICAN Coke (made with sugar, not corn syrup), then I might be interested. But I donât find the American stuff satisfying.
That article is about as informationless as publishing âI saw the sun come up this morningâ. No details about why, like the de minimus removal or if it was the 10% increase or both⌠Garbage reporting⌠Shame on you WIRED.
Hmm, I found it informative for me, for the info about how Temu and Shein manage their 3P Sellers accounts differently than Amazon, Etsy, eBay, etc. And how in the dark that leaves Sellers, like this:
Unlike eBay and other ecommerce sites, Temu controls the prices consumers pay for products, rather than allow sellers to set them. Shi says that, at least for now, Temu is continuing to pay sellers the same wholesale prices for his goods as it usually does. Temu generally doesnât notify him of price hikes, and in this case, he says it hasnât communicated about what the platform is doing to combat the tariffs. He adds that shipping speeds have slowed down, too.
But maybe everyone else except me already knew that was how they operated 
And then since I donât shop on Temu or Shein, I was interested in how the beauty items (which I would think are the least expensive to ship to the states) were paused, and that they platforms make those decisionsânot the Sellers:
Lorianna Calhoun, a Shein shopper, tells WIRED that of the roughly 170 items that were once on her Shein wish list, 40 now appear to be unavailable. She noticed they disappeared on Thursday afternoon. Itâs not clear how Shein and Temu may be selecting what items to remove, but Calhoun says that, at least in her case, the majority of the goods she observed go missing were eye lashes and hair products.
I too did not know that Temu sets the price. 
If Temu is setting the prices and paying a wholesale cost, doesnât this mean that the people involved are suppliers, rather than 3P sellers?
(and I never thought that it was anything other than Temu buying from suppliers and selling; never occurred to me that they could do what they do with 3P sellers).
