Can someone explain this? So I bought this for 1.79 and the

>Hong Kong
China subsidizes sellers on sites like ebay. They don't actually pay shipping costs.

>>62287451
The shipping label says NJ though.

Either way, that must mean SOMEONE is losing a ton of cash shipping a 1.79 item out with priority mail 1 day... 60 times.

Explain?

>>62287476
It's a Chinese seller bro. The Chinese state pays their taxes and shipping costs to disrupt the Western market.

>>62287430
Can you post the link?

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>>62287476
the shipping cost get subsidised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930072

>>62287533
I used to be a mailman.

Delivering 1 letter or 10 letters to a given address would usually take up the exact same time because I would be picking the letters as I walked to the letterbox.

Different story for flats, but they go much faster anyways (probably less than a second per letter)

I didn't do the sorting, but I'd imagine anything not hand written will be fully automated.

>>62287694
What made you leave the best job in the world?

>>62287726
Graduation.

It was only a part-time student job for me.
I did like it though, especially since it kept me /fit/.