{"id":12994,"date":"2025-09-07T22:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/postal-deliveries-from-world-to-us-drop-80-percent-after-trumps-de-minimis-lift\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:21:37","slug":"postal-deliveries-from-world-to-us-drop-80-percent-after-trumps-de-minimis-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/postal-deliveries-from-world-to-us-drop-80-percent-after-trumps-de-minimis-lift\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal deliveries from world to US drop 80 percent after Trump\u2019s de minimis lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postal deliveries from around the world to the United States have plummeted by 80 percent since President Trump lifted the &ldquo;de minimis&rdquo; exception that allowed small packages worth under $800 to be exempt from tariffs, a United Nations body has found. The Universal Postal Union (UPU&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5491009-trump-tariffs-impact-postal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postal deliveries from around the world to the United States have plummeted by 80 percent since President Trump lifted the &ldquo;de minimis&rdquo; exception that allowed small packages worth under $800 to be exempt from tariffs, a United Nations body has found. The Universal Postal Union (UPU&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}