I don't think the levy applies to mail from America to other countries. To me the powers to be have not thought this through. If someone was going to send something through the mail an extra levy is not going to stop them, it would be a small price to pay to carry out their intentions, or they would find some way of using smaller parcels, the only people this is stopping is the honest person. If less people send parcels to America because of the levy they would need less postal workers, less postal workers means less revenue, more strain on social welfare, possible increase in crime, you get the picture. I have other thoughs about this levy but here on this board is neither the time or the place.