Paul Steidler, U.S. manufacturers of small, light-weight products and e-commerce companies have been hard hit by the international postal system.

Paul Steidler, Senior Fellow Lexington Institute. U.S. manufacturers of small, light-weight products and e-commerce companies have been hard hit by the international postal system. Under the regulations of the Universal Postal Union, it is far less expensive to send a small package from China to the U.S. than to send that same package from Ann Arbor to Lansing.