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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 21 2018, @04:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-going-postal dept.

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Trump to pull US out of postal treaty

The US has announced plans to withdraw from a 144-year-old postal treaty, which the White House says lets China ship goods at unfairly low prices.

Under the treaty, a UN body sets lower international rates for packages from certain countries, a move originally designed to support poorer nations.

But the US says the discounts put American businesses at a disadvantage.

Officials said they hoped the notice of withdrawal would set the stage to agree a better deal.

"We're looking for a fair system," a senior administration official told reporters. "We do hope that ultimately we achieve a negotiated outcome."

The BBC's Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani says the move to pull out of the treaty is aimed at forcing the Chinese to give up the developing nation status they had when they first entered the pact back in 1969.

[...] The process of withdrawing from the treaty takes at least a year and the White House said it would be willing to remain in the UPU if negotiations were successful.

The US Postal Service and companies such as Amazon and FedEx have complained about the discounts for foreign shippers for many years.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:12PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:12PM (#751634)

    China is just one of several countries that cries poor when it comes to being given money but then demands status as a first world nation at other times.
    There is a country just north of here that spends so much on it's military that by per capita it rivals Russia. Yet, it cries poor when it comes to aid. How dare we cut aid to them when they need it so much? How about diverting millions from your Defence budget to essentials like housing and education? Nah.

    China is either a third world country or it isn't. Given the amount of millionaires it has produced recently odds are that it isn't.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:44PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:44PM (#751646)

    China is just one of several countries that cries poor when it comes to being given money but then demands status as a first world nation at other times.
    There is a country just north of here that spends so much on it's military that by per capita it rivals Russia. Yet, it cries poor when it comes to aid. How dare we cut aid to them when they need it so much? How about diverting millions from your Defence budget to essentials like housing and education? Nah.

    You must be in Mexico.

    • (Score: 2) by tekk on Sunday October 21 2018, @02:33PM

      by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 21 2018, @02:33PM (#751660)

      Pfft, we blow Russia's per-capita spending out of the water here. We only have 3x their population and spend more than 10x what they do :(

    • (Score: 1) by Acabatag on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:20PM

      by Acabatag (2885) on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:20PM (#751717)

      I was thinking Vietnam, but that would make his post circular and a little bit deceptive.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by mcgrew on Sunday October 21 2018, @04:11PM (3 children)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday October 21 2018, @04:11PM (#751691) Homepage Journal

    I'd mod the foreigner up if he knew what an apostrophe was for, but I have a hard time modding up high school dropouts.

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    • (Score: 3, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 21 2018, @10:04PM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 21 2018, @10:04PM (#751786) Homepage Journal

      Most Americans would be better off dropping out their freshman year of high school. There is little to nothing of any practical use taught there for those who don't plan on continuing on to college, so four years spent gaining work experience or learning a trade would vastly improve their lives by comparison.

      Also, apostrophes come way before high school.

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @06:26PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @06:26PM (#752080)

        Ah yes, who needs to learn about the history of their own country, the government structure, ethics and philosophy. Who needs to improve their critical reading/writing skills? Who needs to learn advanced math, what a waste you'll never use it in your daily life!

        God DAMN you are the meat-head equivalent of tech.

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:40AM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:40AM (#752290) Homepage Journal

          You say it with scorn but everything you noted is of little to no practical use to the average American except for the first two, which are taught before high school. Ethics and philosophy can be picked up just as well in church or with your drunken buddies, just like the fathers of ethics and philosophy came up with them in the first place.

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