US Postal Service paused all incoming shipments from China. (04 Feb 2025) Then reversed itself. (05 Feb 2025)

Update: as @jkp notes below, The decision was reversed less than a day later.

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Letters will not be affected.

A lot of supply chains Will not be affected because they don’t use the US Postal Service.

But many individual packages will be held up, including pretty much everything from Temu, Alibaba, aliexpress, and SHEIN, and some Amazon third-party sellers (not the ones that say “shipped from Amazon”).

Also, some Etsy purchases will be affected because some of those are actually front stores for Chinese companies.

no word on how long the delays might be.

My stuff shipped from Aliexpress. Will be interesting to see where it gets stopped at. End of the day I’ll just get that extra credit to my account for not meeting the delivery deadline. Not the end of the world.

I wouldn’t mind a little price increase if their sub $800 loophole gets filled.

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