[cctalk] Re: what to do with our "treasures"

I was once told that the Chinese government subsidises post in exchange for getting prompt tax returns. Don't know how true that is. There's also some sort of agreement between postal services that means every country gets uncharged local deliveries in the destination countries in exchange for uncharged local deliveries in china. I think this is how the subsidy works - the chinese post being government owned can arrange their accounting so they don't have to balance these sums out. Thus exporters can aggregate their deliveries into a bulk carrier (hence the delay that's longer than DHL/UPS) and pay nothing for the last leg.