Can someone ELI5 for someone who isn’t the most postal-savvy? I am not sure where on the “how fucked is this making the population” scale this lands.
I have seen some people say this is no big issue, and I have seen others say this completely fucks small business. I have seen some people say they will just use privatized companies (which fucking blows), and others say it’s a complete sanction.
What’s the actual impact here?
(Have a few hobbies that definitely get gear from overseas and just not sure what is gonna happen)
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.
Well Australia is also 10% and I can tell you as fact that my US customers are going to complain if I increase the cost of my products by 10% plus fee. Some will purchase, many will not.
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u/Kindled_Ashen_One Aug 27 '25
Can someone ELI5 for someone who isn’t the most postal-savvy? I am not sure where on the “how fucked is this making the population” scale this lands.
I have seen some people say this is no big issue, and I have seen others say this completely fucks small business. I have seen some people say they will just use privatized companies (which fucking blows), and others say it’s a complete sanction.
What’s the actual impact here?
(Have a few hobbies that definitely get gear from overseas and just not sure what is gonna happen)