[Scoundreller]

What helps is that they don’t ship direct from China by mail much. They often send in bulk to the destination country and then mail locally, and local post systems can have their own domestic format.

Or they have their own private courier do the last mile delivery too so it never touches any postal operator.

[bravesoul2]

Do they? In Australia usually get them direct from HK or China because it is cheaper to do that even than post it within Australia!

[Scoundreller]

In Southern Ontario Canada, yes, even in the suburbs, most stuff is dropped off by some rando courier for a few years now.

Somehow cheaper than paying bulk international airmail rates.