That's an interesting point.
I assume that all countries have some sort of agreement that when you post a letter to an overseas destination, presumably the country of origin gets all the money from the 'stamp', and the recipient country is obliged to receive and deliver the letter or parcel as 'part of the service'.
Unless they somehow divi up the 'stamp' money, but I doubt that happens.
So if it works as I said up above, then you can easily see that all of us who order things from China at almost zero postage costs, are literally clogging up the Aussie postal system, and they're getting absolutely no money in return for their part in this service.
I don't know for sure that it does work like that, but even if the postage is divi'd up, how much is the Aussie share of the postage from a '$2 landed' item?
Seems to me the Chinese must be clogging up every nations' postal system with this method. Except perhaps the Italians - their system seems to involve chucking every alternate post bag in the nearest river - lol
Just my thoughts. Can anyone throw any light on how this works?
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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot
And yet: I can get a parcel from the USA for $12 postage; someone in the UK can send a smallish parcel here for around GBP2.50; and, from China they can send a small parcel for so low they give free postage on a $2 item.
I figure we must be subsidising the rest of the world on postage costs.
(OK, so the examples you give were for bigger parcels, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good old fashioned rant .... and we're still overcharged on a world scale, anyway).
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