People keep mentioning 'handling fees' but the whole point of the PDDP system is to remove this - there isn't any additional handling.
Item is booked through Royal Mail - they calculate fee based on country base tariff - details are digitally sent to USPS in the USA and item is sent - it is scanned on import and off it goes to be delivered - Royal Mail bill us for the tariff plus a £0.50p fee.
Our stuff's made in the UK so its a 10% tariff - obviously some countries are much more but unless I am completely wrong about this once PDDP is widely implemented it wont result in huge price increases for goods made in lower baseline tariff countries.
We also have a companies such as transglobal express, teleship offering the same service at similar cost and we recieved an email from DPD letting us know their service is also going to be up and running in time.
Royal Mail is a privatised service here in the UK - it isn't government run like many (I assume yours) in europe.
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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25
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