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[–] SteveTech 2 points 1 year ago

Whilst that would keep Australia Post solvent, it has externalities, simplistically it’s a tarif on local manufactured product.

I've also heard that Amazon and similar 'mass senders' have special deals with postage companies, so most locally manufactured stuff would probably be fairly cheap to post, and they increase the price for normal people to send.