USPS is adding Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) to address recent challenges mailers have faced related to foreign-country tariffs that apply to certain outbound international items as well as the end of de minimis, it revealed in filings with the Postal Regulatory Commission on Friday. The changes will benefit users by making it possible for a sender, in certain instances, to prepay any applicable customs duties, taxes, and fees at the time of mailing.
It’s understandable that US shippers might need solutions as a result of reciprocal tariffs imposed by other countries. It may be less clear why they need a solution for the end of the de minimis exemption, which impacts US citizens receiving packages from other countries. The USPS explained the suspension of de minimis impacts “domestic items originating in certain U.S. Territories and Possessions and destined to the Customs Territory of the United States or CTUS.”
