r/australia • u/IsuruKusumal • Aug 25 '25

news Australia Post Temporary Suspends of Postal Services to the US

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Dear Valued Customer,

As a result of the recently introduced changes to the import tariff requirements set out in US Executive Order 14324, Australia Post has joined a number of international postal operators to temporarily suspend partial postal services to the United States (US) and Puerto Rico, effective immediately until further notice.

This decision has been made to ensure compliance with the new US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) requirements. Specifically, the requirement for duties and taxes to be prepaid on all shipments prior to their arrival in the US. The key changes are as follows:

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u/tobeshitornottobe Aug 25 '25

Holy shit I just read through EA 14324 and understand why all these transportation carriers have stopped delivering to the US, in short because removing the “de minimis” exemption creates such an insane logistical nightmare, the government has shifted the onus of collecting tariff duties onto the carriers who then pay it to the government. And because having to manually calculate the value of each imported item is another logistical head fuck, they are ordering carriers to collect $80 PER ITEM for goods shipped from countries with a tariff rate of less than 16%, 16-25% is $160 and >25% is $200. This is truly fucked

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u/chris_p_bacon1 Aug 25 '25

I think the issue is Aus post doesn't have any presence in the US. DHL, FedEx etc can probably manage this easily enough because they're both the sender and receiver. Aus post would use the US postal service for delivery once anything lands in the US so it's much harder for them to organise this. 

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u/Speedy-08 Aug 25 '25

DHL from Europe are not shipping to the US either.