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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: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:59PM (2 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:59PM (#751729)

    Yup. This is how the #FakeNews get spun, good on ya for noticing. They conflate the U.N., a Parliament of Tyrants, with the old International Postal Union that was absorbed into the U.N. monster to make it look like Trump is the monster for breaking 144 year old agrements that are uncontroversial and "everybody" agrees with to set the Narrative right in the headline and first sentence. But it is a pretty safe bet the old treaties that originally set postal rates didn't allow some unelected bunch of Communists to implement a wealth redistribution scheme in the rate charts, to force "rich" countries to subsidize the shipping costs of "poor" countries and to decide that China! is still a "poor" country.

    So yeah, pull outta the damned thing if they won't see reason. Personally I support the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S. but apparently President Trump isn't quite as far right as I am. Alas. And guess what, by threatening to pull out he will get reform, exactly like he just demonstrated with NAFTA, while every "expert" bleated on TV and print that the "damned fool" was triggering a trade war, nobody wins a trade war and BUY F*CKING GOLD BECAUSE OMG!, THIS SHIT IS WHAT CAUSED THE GREAT DEPRESSION!!!! ELEVENTY!!! Result? They look like idiots, we got a new trade deal all three countries will benefit from and now China is worried.

    When are people going to realize the public facing Trump is all Kayfabe? Just relax, don't get spun up by his tweets and enjoy the MAGA. Because you are getting it anyway, all six remaining years of it, and if you stay in this excited state the whole time ya gonna bust a blood vessel or something.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @06:10PM (#751732)

    Nobody is as far right as you are.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday October 22 2018, @06:56AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Monday October 22 2018, @06:56AM (#751889) Journal

      But of course the inverse corollary is that no one is less right than jmorris, since he is so far right. Funny, that. Jmorris, pull my finger!