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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Very interesting read! I always thought China's gov't just eats those shipping costs to subsidize exports. Turns out, we are! Since Canada Post is obliged to pay for the Chinese parcels delivered within Canada and Canada Post likes to keep its finances from going into the red, it's has to recoup the costs where it can. Such as its domestic shipping rates. Essentially buying something shipped from Canada subsidizes the item shipped from China. That's a nice deal for some of the participants.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better tl;dr than the bot. They should automate you!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also some pretty big business deals and discounts going on. If you go directly to Canada Post or UPS or Purolator or DHL, you're going to pay for the big price. If you go through a shipping company, you can get it for much much cheaper. I got over 5x cheaper on a few boxes I needed to ship across the border that way.

That puts individuals and small local companies at a pretty big disadvantage, on top of Chinese products generally being much cheaper to begin with.

[–] bradmont@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can regular nonbusiness users use them? This sounds fabulous

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that's what I did. Basically they take people's smaller shipments, bundle it into a larger shipment that's much cheaper, and can manage to charge you less and still make a profit on it.

[–] bradmont@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Neat! I known nothing about these companies, could you give me names of the ones you've used?