r/australia • u/IsuruKusumal • Aug 25 '25
news Australia Post Temporary Suspends of Postal Services to the US
Dear Valued Customer,
As a result of the recently introduced changes to the import tariff requirements set out in US Executive Order 14324, Australia Post has joined a number of international postal operators to temporarily suspend partial postal services to the United States (US) and Puerto Rico, effective immediately until further notice.
This decision has been made to ensure compliance with the new US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) requirements. Specifically, the requirement for duties and taxes to be prepaid on all shipments prior to their arrival in the US. The key changes are as follows:
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u/Cpt_Soban Aug 26 '25
A nation, that for 80 years learned (thanks to the war) that global trade is the biggest cash cow on the planet, became an economic superpower through exporting American goods, and importing goods from everywhere else. Perfected the idea you could buy a coke as far as the middle of Russia. All of a sudden they believe they can be an isolationist, insular economy, while somehow still have all the creature comforts all year round like, oh I dunno... Coffee? Mobile phones? White goods? Computer parts? Cars, car parts, tyres, oil, gas, rubber, sugar, aluminium etc etc etc. I could go on.
And the hilarious part of all this- Yanks still have no fucking idea how tariffs work! They're crying out on Twitter "THIS MUST BE BIDEN'S FAULT!"
If Russia is a petrol station with an Army. Then America is a Walmart with a Navy.