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Jiří Eischmann on Nostr: nprofile1q…pgq42 Yeah, it was originally set this way, so that people from ...

Yeah, it was originally set this way, so that people from developing countries could send small mail like letters to developed countries without having to pay the high delivery costs in those counties.
The Chinese marketplaces have found a way to abuse this. They load a plane with thousands of packages and fly it to Europe, that is relatively cheap. And then they get the deliveries of individual packages almost for free from European postal services.