One Dollar Postal Surcharge Approved for Packages Shipped to United States

Another adjustment coming out of this week’s Cabinet meeting is an additional cost for postal services.  The charge is one dollar charge to customers who ship packages to the United States.  Last August, Postmaster General Dr. Marsha Price had warned that price changes were likely, especially following a temporary suspension of shipments to the United States.

Dr. Marisha Price, Post Master General: “We work under the umbrella of the Universal Postal Union who is in direct contact with the United States government is to see how it works. And I know that they really wanted that the US collected their custom duties and not put it on the owners of the operators, right, of that origin country. So that is one of the grave issues that everybody’s facing. So it’s to find a system that you can work with and come up with some process to how you collect. And there’s a time frame that the US Customs have to collect that before the item reaches the United States. I think there’s a time frame of probably seven days if I can recall correctly. So it’s how we work with this now because the impact is it will cost the consumer, the businesses, that will be routing items through the posts to the United States. So that will increase those custom duties will now increase the costs. And sometimes the cost is harder to pass these costs to your customer  that are international especially for those small business. So we understand, we can see people are frustrated about what can we do, right? It’s an executive order, right? So we have to comply and  information are shortcoming. So we still need to finalize through the Universal Postal Union to see if they are working on some software  and to see how.”