Amazon may be the biggest and busiest ecommerce company in the U.S., but China’s Alibaba delivers way more packages.According to an infographic compiled by international courier ParcelHero, while Amazon ships 3 million packages a day, Alibaba ships 12 million. Another interesting factoid: On Cyber Monday, America’s great ecommerce shopping day, Amazon processed 37 million orders. On Singles Day, an annual shopping holiday in China created by Alibaba itself, Alibaba processed 278 million orders.Alibaba, of course, has a much larger customer base: There are about 1.4 billion people living in China, compared to 319 million in the U.S.As Amazon closes in on its 20th birthday, which it plans to celebrate on July 15 with a slew of Black Friday-style deals, ParcelHero founder Roger Sumner-Rivers says the tech giant’s future is in truly developing its own infrastructure for package delivery.Related: Amazon Launches New Storefront for Shark Tank and Kickstarter Successes“Amazon’s ultimate aim for its new distribution arm, Amazon Logistics, is, we believe, that it becomes a logistics company in its own right, competing with companies such as UPS and FedEx,” he said in a statement accompanying an industry report on Amazon.As Amazon is busy building its own delivery logistics network

, so too is Alibaba. Called the China Smart Logistics Network, the operation aims to deliver shipments to any city in China within 24 hours, according to ParcelHero. It’s slated for completion in eight to 10 years.For both Alibaba and Amazon, delivering packages is only one part of multi-pronged business models, and so while Alibaba delivers more packages than Amazon, Amazon is the larger company by revenue. Last year, Jeff Bezos’ company raked in almost $89 billion in sales and Jack Ma’s ecommerce platform took in a bit over $12 billion.Car Touch Up Paint DurbanRelated: Amazon Makes Money, Says Little About It  Have a look at the infographic below for a more in depth look at the Amazon-Alibaba faceoff.Solid Bamboo Flooring RusticRelated: Ecommerce Giant Amazon Wants to Woo the Inventor EntrepreneursWhat Size Ac Unit Do I Need For 2400 Square Feet

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Ordering and paying for goods over the Internet, to be sent to someone other than you, does not count as a gift and the recipient will be liable for any duties and taxes that are payable. On the other hand, a gift – which is something sent directly by one private individual to another – will not attract duties or charges if its value is less that NZ$110. Goods arriving in New Zealand by post or courier must have a Customs declaration completed by the sender and affixed to the package. The declaration should include: Some websites will offer to show a value on the Customs declaration much lower than the actual price paid; this is so that you won't have to pay duty and/or GST when the goods come into New Zealand. By law, however, you are the importer of the goods and are legally responsible for the information on the Customs declaration. If you are ordering goods over the Internet, it is in your interest to make sure that the sender gives an accurate declaration.

If the information is inaccurate, or no declaration is made, the package may be delayed while Customs makes further enquiries. Sometimes the goods will be seized and you will be liable for any charges. There are certain goods that you are not allowed to have sent to New Zealand under any circumstances. A number of other goods have restrictions placed on them. This is to protect New Zealand from crime, pests and diseases. To find out more about what goods are banned or restricted go to prohibited and restricted imports. If you need more information about buying goods from abroad on the Internet, you can phone Customs on 0800 4 CUSTOMS (0800 428 786).The Raspberry Pi is an amazing little dev board, and it’s one of the best tech bargains around. But there’s a new alternative: one that costs less than half as much but still packs a ton of computing power. For just $15, you can get your hands on the Orange Pi PC (presumably the creators spent a lot more time working on keeping the price down than they did on coming up with an original name).

How much computer can you get for less than a Hamilton? More than you’d think. It turns out that there aren’t many sacrifices to make when it comes to the hardware. You don’t have to give up HDMI output or Ethernet connectivity. You do lose a USB 2.0 port, but the Orange Pi PC still has plenty of peripheral hook-ups with three type A and a single USB OTG port. Just like the new Raspberry Pi, its $15 Orange counterpart comes with no onboard storage, so you have to supply your own microSD card. There’s also a 40-pin, Pi-compatible header, IR sensor, and even an integrated microphone. The New Raspberry Pi runs a quad-core Broadcomm processor clocked at 900MHz. The Orange Pi PC, on the other hand, runs an Allwinner H3 processor with four cores clocked at 1.6GHz and an ARM Mali-400 GPU. It’s a very capable processing tandem: it allows the Orange Pi PC to handle 4K video playback, something even the new Raspberry Pi isn’t capable of. If you’d like to get your hands on an Orange Pi PC or 12, you can head over to AliExpress.