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Post by onleeone643 on Jan 16, 2013 22:59:43 GMT -5
Ouch, the hit is gonna be damaging for international collectors. Honestly a big part of the items I sell are to other countries. Ebay themselves are gonna take a hit as well since sales might plunge a bit because now the margin for profit as a seller will decrease drastically. For example: Lawler elite18 retails about 18.20 after taxes. It sells for about $25-$30 on Ebay. Let's say there's a $7-$10 profit window. As a seller you can either jack up the price of shipping or slightly lower the cost of the figure to balance out the shipping increase. Add on top of that, the fees you will pay to list the item, final value fees, and an extra 10% on the shipping. Not to mention Paypal taking some too. To me, selling something too make a few dollars is a waste of time.
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fearofdread
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Post by fearofdread on Jan 17, 2013 14:31:09 GMT -5
First off, you pay for insurance with other shippers in their up-front price. The Post Office doesn't do that. If they did, you'd complain you were gonna pay more. Second, the US Government does not pay a dime to the USPS. The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters. Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume, after which Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act", (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future—a requirement unique to this agency), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced declining mail volume, prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit. What the government did in a Lame Duck session in 2006 was create a mandate designed to end the Post Office. No other company needs to fund it's retirees that far into the future. That includes workers not even born yet. The Post Office is mandated by the Constitution, btw, and with the $5.5 billion it needs to squirrel away by law the Post Office is in danger of losing enough money to put it out of business. It cannot afford to upgrade or rebuild it's infrastructure because Congress makes it pay out so much every year. Do they kinda suck? Yes. But the Post Office is the largest single employer of veterans in the nation. They still handle more mail and packages than anyone else in the world and deliver them without issue 99.9% of the time. So rather than harp on the fact that they have to increase their costs (and it will affect me directly living in Canada with relatives and business in the States), but they have to do something. They have already laid off thousands of workers, closed post offices and distribution centers, and fully funded their pension to tune of $33 billion because Republicans in congress want to kill them so FedEx and UPS can get the mail business (they spent millions in lobbying before 2006 and millions more since). A Canadian putting us Americans in our place! Thanks for the information, I've been wondering about that and what we can do to overturn congress decision Well, I am a recent Canuck. I moved here last year but am a Californian who became a New Yorker. It just sucks because I have to get all my mail sent up here in packages. It'll cost me more now... Ergh.
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