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Jiral@lemmy.world 2 days ago“Materially speaking is more expensive to send a letter next town than a packet from something like aliexpress.”
That is wrong. The microdeliveries are sent as letters. So they are literally a letter from next town (just even longer distance) + a consolidated flight freight from the other side of the globe. The last leg alone creates more costs than the entire product plus shipment is purchased for.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
It is more expensive.
As letters to towns are sent by public services which are expensive and work at a loss because they need to guarantee 100% population coverage. And have stricter delivery routes.
Commercial parcel delivery doesn’t work like that. They use cheap delivery companies, that can and will organize deliveries in a more efficient manner, plus they don’t give 100% coverage. If you live in a remote ares these delivery services are not available and it’s up to the customer to go to a pickup post.
Also you don’t even have to receive at home. Pick up post are common, so all deliveries doesn’t need to go to each person home. They are go to the same shop and them people walk there to retrieve products.
Like it or not, it’s cheaper. There’s a thing called economic scaling here, that means that the more products are moved the cheaper it becomes to move it.
It’s also non sensical in the sense that the tax is not made by product. But by category of product. I could order 150€ in the same product and only get 3€ tax. But if I get 150€ in 150 products of different categories I get a 450€ tax. It’s illogical if the objective would be what you think it is.
It’s a logical tax from the explanation I gave. They european union was lobbied by scalpers, local resellers and dropshippers, that would indeed buy tremendous amounts of the same article to resell it more expensive to you.
Making the product also travel more and less efficiency. The product no longe will go in a efficient route from china to my house. Now It will go to chine to some warehouse, sit there some time and them from that warehouse to my house. If anything it would me more polluting.
They EU have failed us again.
Jiral@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wrong. The micro orders via Ali Express standard shipping to Austria are sent by the Austrian post, the same company sending any other letter.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Then is different by country. In spain they used to be sent by the national post agency, taking advantage of the subsidization of third world countries.
But that aid ended years ago. Now packages from china have to pay full commercial price of delivery.
Since them in spain they moved from the national post agency towards cheap delivery companies, usually with bikers.
Idk if in Austria they are still subsidized or they pay full commercial price to the Austrian post agency. But surely there’s no european legislation that makes them not pay full price.
And once they pay full price, commercial companies tend to be more expensive or straight up not working in small towns compared with big cities where delivery is cheaper.
Jiral@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Full price at 0 EUR shipment on 1EUR order? By which magic can that cover shipment across the world, no matter how it is done?