Another tough pill to swallow.
They say a 10% rise in Priority rates, but with them doing away with Commercial Plus pricing using services like Ebay and Stamps.com, that jacks it up even further then what we are used to paying.
This one concerns me the most as someone who is used to shipping International:
First Class Package International Service rates would see an overall increase of 21.6%. "This is potentially devastating to small ecommerce sellers servicing international buyers," one industry player told EcommerceBytes.
In the last 5-7 years, International has already seen a near tripling in the cost of shipping a small package or parcel, so we become even less and less competitive on the international market, while countries such as China have vendors who can ship to the U.S. at almost zero cost to them.
If they want to recoup money on international shipping, they should do it on packages coming into this country, rather then packages going out.
Well, at least there's no increase on 1st Class Package shipping.
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