There was chatter about this in one of the NYC subreddits over the weekend.Apparently ending the de ...read more

It's the price of uncertainty.Business can plan for low tax or high tax regimes. Not so much when it...read more

Austria, too. I know somebody working there in mid-management. They say the don't care about high or...read more

India has done the same as wellhttps://www.business-standard.com/immigration/india-post-sus...

This needs to be repeated. Tariffs are a tax on ordinary citizens. Unlike regular taxes, tariffs are...read more

You can still send letters- this is a big deal but it’s not -quite- as bad as I first thought since ...read more

Title is not accurate. They're allowing personal shipments under $100, and the rest can be shipped v...read more

Every morning I wake up and check to see if it's happened yet.

I'm worried that this could have unforeseen knock on effects or create havoc. Fukushima knocked out ...read more

I saw, I think in another comment thread here, that US customs doesn't allow sending into the US wit...read more

Sounds like the Japanese commercial carriers are going to get a bump in business since they're not i...read more

This situation feels dumb. I feel like I am watching idiots cheer on someone doing parkor and that p...read more

The font rendering on this site is crazy, I guess traditional Japanese fonts like MS PGothic always ...read more

Same in the Netherlands. PostNL halted all box shipments to the US last Friday. Only allowing envelo...read more

I don't get the $100 threshold they're setting? What's the logic behind accepting small packages whe...read more

Insane that we have tariffs with Japan of all countries, America's most important strategic ally by ...read more

We should have something like the federal reserve, but for trade policy. A board of governors nomina...read more

Also true of vinyl records and pottery out of the UK and EU. The people I buy from are just not doin...read more

Semi-related: I make orders from Amazon Japan a couple times a year - shipping to the US isn't cheap...read more

Why is English on Japanese sites frequently rendered with that font?

Went from #1 on the frontpage to >30 in under 10 minutes, impressive: https://hnrankings.info/450165...read more

edit: someone changed it to a cropped form of the page title that's even less informative. I tried.I...read more

How can you be an American and not be embarrassed by this? Is stopping the "woke mind virus" really ...read more

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> "we will continue to accept letters, postcards, printed matter, EMS (documents), and postal items ...read more

Hot take: goodThe de minimis treatment has been abused beyond original intent. Specifically by China...read more

there is a literal energetic meaning to borders and frontiers and barriers IN GENERALfrom mitochondr...read more