Delivery Scams

There is currently a scam doing the rounds where one gets a text out of the blue saying "your Royal Mail parcel is awaiting delivery. Please confirm the settlement of 1.99 (GBP) on the following link".  The link then takes you to a fraudulent site which takes payment and other details.

Royal Mail has confirmed that it never asks for excess payment by text or e-mail.

Everyone should be alert to this and similar scams.  I myself got one of these texts this morning, and I'd hate to think that anyone would fall for it because they were expecting a delivery from us.

The Royal Mail's tweet.

Some more details on the BBC new pages.

New International Postal Rates - 1 July 2020

As previously advised, increasing in international shipping rates (particularly to the USA) mean that we are having to put up our charges as of 1 Jul 2020.  They will be as follows:-

Europe - £8.50

Zone 1 - £12.50

Zone 2 - £14.00

Zone 3 - £18.00

These prices are based on a 750g parcel sent International Standard (not tracked).  We reserve the right to charge more for heavier parcels or other services.

Forthcoming Postage Increases for US Customers

The US Government has a stated aim of encouraging its citizens to buy American rather than foreign goods.  One of the ways it has sought to do this was to threaten to withdraw from the Universal Postage Union unless it was allowed to set its own fees for international mail shipped into the US, and to use this to penalise customers who have goods shipped in.

As a result, from 1 July 2020 there will be an increase of more than 100% in the fees the US Postal Service charges for 'last mile' delivery of international mail.

• For example, sending a small parcel of 750g-1kg by International Standard Rate (ie, untracked Air Mail) now costs £12.23.  From 1 July it will cost £17.75.  

We shall accordingly have to increase the shipping charges made to US customers.  It appears that this will not affect International Ecomony (ie, Surface Mail with a delivery aim of 42 days) rates, and we will leave the charge for this service as is.

We will not make the changes to our postal rates until July.  If you are in the US and were thinking about ordering from us, you may wish to do so sooner rather than later.