Demand delivers posthaste reversal of USPS decision

The US Postal Service having decided to no longer accept parcels from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Tuesday, reversed the decision on Wednesday, giving an apt demonstration of the Chinese idiom "issue an order in the morning and reverse it in the evening".

The brief suspension came after the new US administration changed the rules on import taxes and ended a policy that allowed small packages worth $800 or less to be sent to the United States without paying taxes or fees.

According to US Customs and Border Protection, the number of packages that entered the US under the so-called de minimis exemption had grown from 139 million in Fiscal Year 2015 to 1.36 billion in Fiscal Year 2024.