Reply To: Dear UK miniature makers

[danlee 22443xp 2]

The biggest problem I have seen with international shipping (working for a company that does international shipping world wide every day, and has done so since before Brexit) is the confusion along the entire transit chain.

 

Before there were no (or next to no) rules to follow so a parcel from the UK could arrive to an EU country over night.

 

Now the shipper, the transit broker, courier, export customs, import customs, other courier, and receiver all need to know what to do (and this varies from one EU country to the next). If anybody misunderstands a rule the parcel can be delayed or returned. Even big shipping companies that you would expect to know how to handle this stuff don’t, and you can get lucky and get a clued in staff member handling your parcel and it goes through ok. The next identical shipment can get held up as it gets handled by a different member of staff who has had different training or interprets the rules differently.

 

Each company involved will often also charge more to handle the extra paperwork, even if taxes or import duties still don’t apply.

 

Everything has become so much slower and more expensive.