Tariff charging is getting worse

[Bad Santa]

These processing fees are a cash cow for the carriers.

 

[anotherlab]

These processing fees are a cash cow for the carriers.

How is it a cash cow for the carriers? Having to process tariff charges becomes one more thing that they have to manage.

 

[FLDave]

These processing fees are a cash cow for the carriers.

Well, these carriers are for-profit businesses and should be expected to profit from all aspects of their businesses. Users expect to pay a fee for the services provided by the carriers. I suppose own could eliminate the carrier customs process fee by using regular postal service for shipping. This way the item would likely physically pass through US customs upon arrive in the U. S.; there would not likely be a service fee to our own customs department.

 

[mavic3usa]

Well, these carriers are for-profit businesses and should be expected to profit from all aspects of their businesses. Users expect to pay a fee for the services provided by the carriers. I suppose own could eliminate the carrier customs process fee by using regular postal service for shipping. This way the item would likely physically pass through US customs upon arrive in the U. S.; there would not likely be a service fee to our own customs department.

There's no proof that tariffs are actually being collected and/or paid and I honestly think one day in the future, we're going to hear about how we were scammed. Common carriers collecting "tariff" money and never actually paying all of it to the government. Tariffs are costing these companies a lot of money and they're just finding ways to offset the costs whether it's completely legal or know. We all know what their defense will be so just be ready to become a member of the class action lawsuit that's coming from this tariff disaster.

 

[Bad Santa]

How is it a cash cow for the carriers? Having to process tariff charges becomes one more thing that they have to manage.

Because it's a digital process. Humans aren't part of the process. There's no physical cost involved.

 

[MS Coast]

There's no proof that tariffs are actually being collected and/or paid and

Well, I can provide direct evidence of tariffs being paid on items I've purchased from Asia and the UK. Are you suggesting that the US government has not been receiving tariff payments and could not offer proof? Of course, there's proof.

I honestly think one day in the future, we're going to hear about how we were scammed. Common carriers collecting "tariff" money and never actually paying all of it to the government. Tariffs are costing these companies a lot of money and they're just finding ways to offset the costs whether it's completely legal or know. We all know what their defense will be so just be ready to become a member of the class action lawsuit that's coming from this tariff disaster.

Yet another imagined case of widespread criminal activity taking advantage of drone buyers. At least it's not a government conspiracy this time. Do you really think FedEx, UPS, DHL, and other shipping companies are committing fraud? Do you have even one iota of evidence back this up?

Have you already imagined how you'll spend the big cash settlement you receive in the class action suit?

 

[mavic3usa]

Well, I can provide direct evidence of tariffs being paid on items I've purchased from Asia and the UK. Are you suggesting that the US government has not been receiving tariff payments and could not offer proof? Of course, there's proof.

Of course they have collects some tariff payments. I'll let you study the statement more closely and figure out what I am saying. You do that a lot, you take the statements to the extreme and then you ask for proof and you don't even try to understand what someone is saying. If you don't want to study my statement any further and figure it out, happy to drop it right then and there; no problem.

Yet another imagined case of widespread criminal activity taking advantage of drone buyers. At least it's not a government conspiracy this time. Do you really think FedEx, UPS, DHL, and other shipping companies are committing fraud? Do you have even one iota of evidence back this up?

If a class action lawsuit materialize because yet another American company is found to be cheating consumers, will you opt out of the class? No government money collection process between the government and a private entity is honest; it's impossible for a tariff system to be put into place and implemented this quickly without issues, mistakes, etc. I'm not a lawyer so I don't have to come up with the proof. Thanks for asking such a silly question. I know you love and trust the current administration and everything they do but some of us know better and we question it; that's a little bit different than accusing. It's called transparency, have you heard of it?

 

[MS Coast]

I know you love and trust the current administration and everything they do ...

Your imagination and sense of doom allow you to conjure some really absurd ideas, but this one eclipses all the others with it's disconnect from reality.

 

[anotherlab]

Because it's a digital process. Humans aren't part of the process. There's no physical cost involved.

It's a digital process, but there is a cost to have and maintain a system for processing tariffs. That cost will be less than the fee they are charging, but it will be above zero.

 

[anotherlab]

There's no proof that tariffs are actually being collected and/or paid and I honestly think one day in the future, we're going to hear about how we were scammed. Common carriers collecting "tariff" money and never actually paying all of it to the government.

The CBP announced that it collected $200 billion between Jan. 20 and Dec. 15, 2025.

Tariffs are costing these companies a lot of money and they're just finding ways to offset the costs whether it's completely legal or know.

I agree with most of that sentence.