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Withered_One

I'm tired of not being able to buy online because of my address

I live in Puerto Rico, which is the United States, except we're not a state, we're territory. However we are US citizens, and we use the United States Postal Service. That means that if you're in the states, you can ship mail to us with NO extra cost or long distance fees.

However, many many online sellers, refuse to ship to Puerto Rico because they see it as a foreign country. This includes some eBay sellers, to big companies like Converse. Our IP address is blacklisted just because we're territory and not a states.

It gets worse however. The blacklisting also includes online services like YouTube music. I can't access official songs on YouTube. Whenever I look for a song I can only watch fan-made lyrics videos. This, deprives the artists from ad revenue.

I really feel discriminated against because of this. Whenever I try accessing a service that everyone else has, I can't just because I live in US territory. It doesn't really feel fair. Maybe there's something I don't know, but like I said, if that's the case, then why can many small independent sellers ship to me, for insanely inexpensive and expensive orders, and bigger companies can't? It's making me angry and I wish more people knew about what's going on. And if you're an online seller who excludes Puerto Rico, please include us, because like I said, you don't have to pay any long distance shipping because we use the USPS just like any other state

Posted Jun 4, 2020, 11:36 PM UTC

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