{"id":2623632,"date":"2025-08-26T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2623632\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:26:26","slug":"australia-joins-countries-suspending-post-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2623632\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia joins countries suspending post to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AFP047819_00.pre.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t      Australia joined on Tuesday a string of countries suspending some postal deliveries to the United States, citing a complex and rapidly evolving situation with US President Donald Trump&#8217;s looming tariffs.<br \/>  Australia Post said most goods being sent to the United States and Puerto Rico would no longer be accepted until further notice.<br \/>  Gifts with a value of less than US$100, letters and documents were exempt from the suspension.<br \/>      The move follows similar steps taken by other postal services and mail carriers including in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, India and New Zealand.<br \/>  Japan also announced that US-bound individual gifts worth more than $100 and goods for sale would no longer be accepted from Wednesday.<br \/>  Taiwan said it will stop sending merchandise-type mail to the United States from Tuesday.<br \/>  The Trump administration has said that as of August 29 it will abolish a tax exemption on small packages entering the United States.<br \/>      Australia Post executive general manager Gary Starr said the company was focused on providing a reliable and competitive postal service for customers.<br \/>  We are disappointed we have had to take this action, however, due to the complex and rapidly evolving situation, a temporary partial suspension has been necessary to allow us to develop and implement a workable solution for our customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia joined on Tuesday a string of countries suspending some postal deliveries to the United States, citi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2623633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785171],"tags":[133795,98706,528524,32077,939,19294,1670,98751,73191,11802,200,125020,78392,6798,17757,812,4817,3687,4313,31168,1712,345531,6330,784979,2722,11034,784980,1668,3843,13633,11786,3577,16899,21135,302851,482,14115,577,1669],"class_list":{"0":"post-2623632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-jiji","10":"tag-topics","11":"tag-topix","12":"tag-939","13":"tag-19294","14":"tag-1670","15":"tag-98751","16":"tag-73191","17":"tag-11802","18":"tag-200","19":"tag-125020","20":"tag-78392","21":"tag-6798","22":"tag-17757","23":"tag-812","24":"tag-4817","25":"tag-3687","26":"tag-4313","27":"tag-31168","28":"tag-1712","29":"tag-345531","30":"tag-6330","31":"tag-784979","32":"tag-2722","33":"tag-11034","34":"tag-784980","35":"tag-1668","36":"tag-3843","37":"tag-13633","38":"tag-11786","39":"tag-3577","40":"tag-16899","41":"tag-21135","42":"tag-302851","43":"tag-482","44":"tag-14115","45":"tag-577","46":"tag-1669"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/115095535188085654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2623633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}