4/2 Now tariff news! *Reversed* USPS mail disruption China and Hong Kong

For those of you who use shopping services to get pins from Asia. This is in addition to the recent 10% tariffs announced for China.


2-4-25

Temporary Service Disruption
Effective Feb. 4, the Postal Service will temporarily suspend only international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts until further notice. Note the flow of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong will not be impacted.

Mail has been restarted.

Unfortunately, bumping this up. As part of today's tariff announcements, the administration announced an end to the de minimus exemption for China. This is the $800 personal exemption of small packages we receive in the mail. So if you order from Shanghai or Hong Kong based sellers on Facebook, Instagram, etc. expect your packages to be disrupted. They tried this in February, but had to walk it back due to escalating package volumes. We'll see what happens now.