...on christmas eve, federal express delivered a structural modelling kit i ordered from brasil two years ago; on boxing day they submitted a $400 invoice for the related tarriff + brokerage fees...

...at the time, the supreme court ruling was expected shortly after the holiday, so i was in no rush to pay an invoice likely to be voided and unlikely to be refunded, and i waited as the court delayed judgement over the next six weeks...in the six weeks between delivery of my package and the court ruling, federal express have sent me six invoices which remain unopened, that's six past-due notices for a unilateral invoice less than sixty days old...

...i appreciate that they delivered my package on account of shipping fees i paid two years ago, i appreciate that this administration put them in a tough spot and i wish them well with their legal remediation, but i have no intention to pay an illegitimate invoice unlikely ever to be refunded to me as an individual...

They'll charge you another $25 fee to process your $5 refund if you want it.

Edit: this was a joke ... i just realized someone that paid a very big tariff might actually think they were offering a refund for $25 and would want it.

They're suing on behalf of their customers. I'm sure they will also be spending the settlement on behalf of their customers as well.

This was entirely predictable, also don't expect cost to go down now either.

I agree that Fed Ex should be sending those refunds to everyone who has to pay them.

But I think FedEX should be able to sue. It used to be anything under $600 didn't get a tariff. It was too costly and burdensome on the package handlers to collect the tariff. Also the system was designed to hold those $600 packages, not all the packages. Instead of ramping up Fed Ex had to handle a new system blind, with no preparation time. That had to effect core business

Hell would love to see a class action suit by all the package shippers and handlers against the government for what they had to go through

Not until they sue fedex

Yeah but the casinos… oh nvm.

Agreed.

You kept receipts for everything you bought since the tariffs went live?

I think maaaaybe on b2b or larger transactions that included a Tariff line item in the invoice. The $2 widget you bought at Dollar Tree, not likely.

From the POV of a business it cost them more labor and money to collect and pay the tariffs and now getting reimbursed and paying the customers/clients back would cost them even more labor and money.

It's an unfunded cluster fuck of an issue that never should have happened to begin with.

Problem is, it won't be paid by Trump & co., it'll be paid by taxpayers. And the tax cuts for the wealthy that depended on the revenue increase from the tariffs, aren't going away.

Oh no... It's not just once... They passed the rate of the tarrifs on to us, now they'll recoup the cost that WE paid, AND they'll continue to charge us at those increased rates even if the tarrifs are lifted.

Call JG Wentworth. 877-CASH-NOW!

"Clusterfuck" is a great way to describe this administration 🙄

The problem is the money is just going to go to the businesses who passed the cost to their customers.

he'll probably try to get federal agencies to harass them.

Government and corporations at war with each other? Go on, tell me more.

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