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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    20 hours ago

    I’ve seen a similar thing happen overtime for Aliexpress shipping to Europe - it used to take 2 months to were I am (Portugal), now it takes a bit over a week.

    I think they set-up some kind of consolidated shipping operation so that the sellers on their site can ship things via Aliexpress’ own system, which is way faster (and invariably involves air-shipping via The Netherlands) and often is listed as Free Shipping.

    I’ve bought once or twice from sellers there that don’t use it and those packages still take 2 months to get here.

    I mention this because it makes sense that Aliexpress has set up a similar system for the US given that it’s a market which is almost as big as the EU.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      They also have warehouses in the EU which means that as a customer you don’t have to deal with duties and import VAT at all.