Discounted Chinese Postal Rates Questioned By Texas Lawmaker (Linn’s Stamp News)

Due to a quirk in international postal rates it costs less to send small packages from China to the United States than to send similar packages short distances within the United States. This is hurting many e-commerce businesses. An in-depth story, which grew out of the Lexington Institute’s June 15 Capitol Hill postal conference, can be found here.