{"id":11256,"date":"2020-06-07T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:24:58","slug":"postage-increase-to-usa-advanced-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/postage-increase-to-usa-advanced-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Postage Increase to USA – Advanced Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Royal Mail have recently given notice of an increase in their prices to the USA; it’s a result of the decision by the US Postal Service to increase the prices they charge other postal services to deliver overseas mail within the US (it’s known as the ‘last mile’ delivery). The result is that Royal Mail prices to the USA are increasing by about 50% starting on July 1st – as examples, the cost of a 500g parcel (probably the most common size we send) is going up from \u00a39.81 to \u00a314.88, while a 2kg package goes from \u00a318.97 to \u00a329.41. You can read more about it on the Royal Mail website<\/a> if you wish.<\/p>\n

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As much as we’d like to, we can’t afford to absorb this, so we’re going to have to create a special shipping category for orders to the USA. Where previously US orders would pay \u00a34.30 + 14% of order value, this will now go to \u00a34.30 + 20% of order value. We’ll probably introduce this a couple of days beforehand, because there’s always a lag between orders being placed and when we get to send them.<\/p>\n

We may start using couriers more often, for parcels in the 1.5kg – 2kg range it could be cheaper to use Fedex or UPS.<\/p>\n

Please note that this only<\/em> affects orders from the USA; prices to the UK, Europe and the rest of the world are unaffected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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