[gruez]

>Yes, the United States and, in a roundabout way, the U.S. taxpayer is footing the bil

How can this be? I thought usps was self sufficient?

[cannonedhamster]

Internal rates have gone up for USPS customers to subsidize Chinese vendors. American taxpayers are generally the consumers of the USPS. They are still self-sufficient.

[gruez]

still, it's a roundabout way to say "americans" (more specifically, "americans using USPS").

[sharemywin]

part of the reason stamp prices keep going up.

[vinay427]

That's not really true, adjusting for inflation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/US...

The lighter blue line is in May 2016 cents.