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On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I have heard that the reason for this is that the US Postal Service
isn't equipped to collect the customs duty, and so Trump has demanded
that the overseas postal services collect the US Customs Duties for him, which they naturally refused.

Maybe he should give them a cut of the tariffs they collect.

After all, he prides himself on being a dealmaker, right?
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On 8/24/25 4:49 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I have heard that the reason for this is that the US Postal Service
isn't equipped to collect the customs duty, and so Trump has demanded
that the overseas postal services collect the US Customs Duties for him,
which they naturally refused.

Maybe he should give them a cut of the tariffs they collect.

Ummmm ... NO.

Sorry, but the old "Rip-Off The USA" paradigm
HAS to die.

We will come to something new.
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On 2025-08-24, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 8/24/25 4:49 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I have heard that the reason for this is that the US Postal Service
isn't equipped to collect the customs duty, and so Trump has demanded
that the overseas postal services collect the US Customs Duties for him, >>> which they naturally refused.

Maybe he should give them a cut of the tariffs they collect.

Ummmm ... NO.

Sorry, but the old "Rip-Off The USA" paradigm
HAS to die.

We will come to something new.

We can no longer be used as the world's piggy bank as we have enough
of our own issues to take care of and need to put our needs before the
needs of the rest of the world.
Something democrats fail to understand which is why they support criminals instead of the victims.
--
pothead

"Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices.
Then our choices make us."
-- Anne Frank
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pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
news:108f2gj$2q7j6$1@dont-email.me:

On 2025-08-24, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 8/24/25 4:49 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I have heard that the reason for this is that the US Postal Service
isn't equipped to collect the customs duty, and so Trump has
demanded that the overseas postal services collect the US Customs
Duties for him, which they naturally refused.

Maybe he should give them a cut of the tariffs they collect.

Ummmm ... NO.

Sorry, but the old "Rip-Off The USA" paradigm
HAS to die.

We will come to something new.

We can no longer be used as the world's piggy bank as we have enough
of our own issues to take care of and need to put our needs before the
needs of the rest of the world.

Unless it comes to Israel.


Israel to receive $1 billion in bombs
and bulldozers from Trump
FEB 03, 2025

Tel Aviv is clearly exempt from the
president's blitz on foreign aid https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-and-israel-foreign-aid/

Something democrats fail to understand which is why they support
criminals instead of the victims.

The party led by a convicted felon
complains about criminals.

Gads..................


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On 8/24/25 09:02, pothead wrote:

On 2025-08-24, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 8/24/25 4:49 AM, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I have heard that the reason for this is that the US Postal Service
isn't equipped to collect the customs duty, and so Trump has demanded
that the overseas postal services collect the US Customs Duties for him, >>>> which they naturally refused.

Maybe he should give them a cut of the tariffs they collect.

Ummmm ... NO.

Sorry, but the old "Rip-Off The USA" paradigm
HAS to die.

We will come to something new.

We can no longer be used as the world's piggy bank as we have enough
of our own issues to take care of and need to put our needs before the
needs of the rest of the world.

Or...

...both of you should ask yourselves why & for who the 'de minimis'
tariff exception existed in the first place.

Its not even really a hard Google.


-hh
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:02:11 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

We can no longer be used as the world's piggy bank

Um, you don't think it's a good idea that WE are in charge of the
world's economies?
--
Dear pothead ...
Message-ID: <107okgb$1ee94$1@dont-email.me>
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:49:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D|+Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I have heard that the reason for this is that the US Postal Service
isn't equipped to collect the customs duty, and so Trump has demanded
that the overseas postal services collect the US Customs Duties for him,
which they naturally refused.

Maybe he should give them a cut of the tariffs they collect.

After all, he prides himself on being a dealmaker, right?

In the past, when the South African post office still worked (before semi-privatisation) when one had to collect a package on which customs
duty had to be paid, there was also an "administration fee" -- which
sometimes had to be paid even if there was no customs duty. This was
to cover the extra expens the ppost office had to go to to pay the
staff etc for that particular work.

If, however, they are being asked to provide staff to collect duty for
another country (in this case the USA) then that country would need to
pay an administration fee for the extra work in collecting it, or, as
you say, retain a percentage of the tariff.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:15:30 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:49:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D Oliveiro ><ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:32:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I have heard that the reason for this is that the US Postal Service
isn't equipped to collect the customs duty, and so Trump has demanded
that the overseas postal services collect the US Customs Duties for him, >>> which they naturally refused.

Maybe he should give them a cut of the tariffs they collect.

After all, he prides himself on being a dealmaker, right?

In the past, when the South African post office still worked (before >semi-privatisation) when one had to collect a package on which customs
duty had to be paid, there was also an "administration fee" -- which >sometimes had to be paid even if there was no customs duty. This was
to cover the extra expens the ppost office had to go to to pay the
staff etc for that particular work.

If, however, they are being asked to provide staff to collect duty for >another country (in this case the USA) then that country would need to
pay an administration fee for the extra work in collecting it, or, as
you say, retain a percentage of the tariff.

You're not going to last long around here making sense like that.
;)
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