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This is the best summary I could come up with:
When Neil Pitman was trying to buy a new piece for his pressure cooker, he couldn't believe the price difference between getting it shipped from the United States to his home in Sherbrooke, Que., compared to the cost of it coming from China.
Serasu Duran, a University of Calgary assistant professor of operations and supply chain management in the Haskayne School of Business, says it can cost about $5 or $6 per kilogram to ship a package from China to Canada.
It used to be quite difficult to send a letter from one country to another, according to Paulus Schoorl, program manager and policy and regulatory adviser for the Universal Postal Union in Bern, Switzerland.
"The central idea is that any citizen or business should be able to send mail packages through the Global Postal Network to any destination," said Schoorl.
In 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump pushed back on the rates and threatened to pull the country out of the Universal Postal Union.
"Canada Post determines shipping rates based on several factors, including the origin and destination, which also consider population densities.
The original article contains 876 words, the summary contains 178 words. Saved 80%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Bad bot. This summary is worse than useless.
This article has a unique style to it. I wonder if these bots are only decent at summarizing highly formulaic content (articles that are half written by bots).
Could be, but even the best case scenario for this bot is pretty bad. The bot “summarizes” by omission. That’s always going to be limited.