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| Re: [GMCnet] New Alternator Installed - Thanks for the tips [message #339886 is a reply to message #339884] |
Tue, 01 January 2019 09:03   |
Olly Schmidt
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On 01.01.19 14:52, Bruce Hislop wrote:
> Amazing that they can haul it half-way around the world and back and still rebuild it for cheaper cost than doing it here.
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Afaik, the chinese gov is subsidizing chinese post office.
Otherwise it would not be possible to buy some small USB doo dad for
2USD-3USD, with free shipping, and having it in your hands within a week.
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| Re: [GMCnet] New Alternator Installed - Thanks for the tips [message #339887 is a reply to message #339886] |
Tue, 01 January 2019 09:54 |
Dolph Santorine
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The issue is shipping to the USA is not as cheap as to China. About half the containers go back to China empty.
Dolph Santorine
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Wheeling, West Virginia
1977 ex-Palm Beach TZE167V100820
Sullybuilt Bags, Reaction Arms, Manny Transmission
> On Jan 1, 2019, at 10:03 AM, Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote:
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>> On 01.01.19 14:52, Bruce Hislop wrote:
>> Amazing that they can haul it half-way around the world and back and still rebuild it for cheaper cost than doing it here.
>>
>
> Afaik, the chinese gov is subsidizing chinese post office.
>
> Otherwise it would not be possible to buy some small USB doo dad for
> 2USD-3USD, with free shipping, and having it in your hands within a week.
>
> --
> Best regards
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> Peer Oliver Schmidt
> PGP KeyID: 0x4196BF22
> '76a 26' Eleganza II - Virginia, US
> '73 23' Sequoia - Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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| Re: [GMCnet] New Alternator Installed - Thanks for the tips [message #339888 is a reply to message #339886] |
Tue, 01 January 2019 10:50 |
Ken Henderson
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That's one of the disputes Trump's having with China right now: He's
abrogated the postal agreement which allows them to ship us things prepaid
from China for less than an empty envelope costs to mail across the US via
USPS.
That will hurt our pocketbooks, but is still only fair to our workers.
Ken H.
On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 10:04 AM Peer Oliver Schmidt
wrote:
> On 01.01.19 14:52, Bruce Hislop wrote:
>> Amazing that they can haul it half-way around the world and back and
> still rebuild it for cheaper cost than doing it here.
>>
>
> Afaik, the chinese gov is subsidizing chinese post office.
>
> Otherwise it would not be possible to buy some small USB doo dad for
> 2USD-3USD, with free shipping, and having it in your hands within a week.
>
> --
> Best regards
>
> Peer Oliver Schmidt
> PGP KeyID: 0x4196BF22
> '76a 26' Eleganza II - Virginia, US
> '73 23' Sequoia - Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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| Re: [GMCnet] New Alternator Installed - Thanks for the tips [message #339892 is a reply to message #339888] |
Tue, 01 January 2019 16:13 |
tphipps
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The postal agreement was signed in 1844. China was a 4th World nation. Things have changed quite a bit.
Empty containers do not return to China. Chinese economics on these, it is cheaper to build an new one than to return an empty one. If you live near a port with International shipping, empties are everywhere. Here, in Lower Alabama, you can have an empty 40ft delivered to your site and placed for around $2000. You cannot build anything of that size for that money. Pretty secure also. Local builder just assembled a fast food cluster of 40 footers.
Ask Ken H. about the utility of his 40 footer.
Tom
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| Re: [GMCnet] New Alternator Installed - Thanks for the tips [message #339895 is a reply to message #339894] |
Tue, 01 January 2019 19:10 |
James Hupy
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When I first moved to Salem, Oregon in 1958, I went to work as a busboy in
a large Chinese Restaurant. Owned and operated by Chinese immigrants from
Hong Kong. They treated me very well, and some of them became life long
acquaintances. They stated extreme dislike for the Communists, and said
that was the primary reason they left China. They were great cooks, and
taught me a lot about food service. But, alternator rebuilding was NOT one
of their strong suits. I don't think that has improved a great deal. I use
a local rebuilder, who uses USA manufactured parts in their rebuilds. I
have very few problems with their stuff.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 4:48 PM David H. Jarvis I have bought a few things from China and the quality has changed in the[/color]
> last few years.
> It is quite good now.
> For a while you could order good brake rotors, and for a few dollars less,
> you could get not so good brake rotors. Most people went for the cheaper
> ones then complained about quality.
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| Re: [GMCnet] New Alternator Installed - Thanks for the tips [message #339896 is a reply to message #339892] |
Tue, 01 January 2019 21:21 |
Ken Burton
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I have a one time use container here that I use a garage for my John Deere and Zero turn mower. It has doors on both ends. It cost me $2200 delivered from one of the ports in Chicago. Mine was made in Denmark and used once. It was like new when I received it. It was never painted with any company logo and the doors one end were never opened since it left the factory.
The deal on the mail is by international agreement. The origination country set the rates, collects, and keeps the money while the destination country has to receive it at a postal customs facility in their country and deliver it from there for free. The arrangement assumes the mail traveling the other way is handled similarly so it all balances out money wise in the end.
Most of the small light weight stuff travels as air freight on already flying passenger planes. Bigger / heavier postal items have to travel air or surface freight which raises their cost but the rates and transport times are still set by the originating country.
Heavy items are usually not shipped by postal services but by freight / shipping companies which is a completely different system.
A lot of countries use the postal service as a revenue generator and set the rates high. A few do the opposite and set the rates low or subsidize the operation encourage exports.
Ken Burton - N9KB
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Hebron, Indiana
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