We have just lost £40 trying to send goods to the EU (and I'm angry)

[Paul FilmMaker]

@Paul FilmMaker so your argument is that we should be in the EU because they hate us?

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It sounds to me as though the British government needs to take a tougher line and retaliate for unfair treatment - the problem is that the EU nationalists in the UK will then say its all our fault.

What I'm offering is business solutions based on my experience of moving goods between the UK and France prior to the formation of the EU. The solutions today are identical because the problems are identical.

Delighted your solution is some kind of kind of political retaliation. For a small, business owner, that may be less than practical.

 

[Justin Smith]

We have just had an order from Ireland, and I'm unsure what to do about it.
On the one hand I'm proud of our products and I want to give a good service (I'm actually less bothered about the mere £8 we'll make on the order), but on the other hand I really don't want all this hassle again. I suspect to Cork it'd go by Hermes all the way to the customer this time so it will probably be OK. Last time it went :
Us (booked via ParcelsToGo) > Hermes > DPD UK > DPD Holland (despite the fact it was actually going to Belgium ! ) then all the way back again.....
To a certain extent it may be irrelevant anyway, the total carriage we'll require form the customer will be £15 for a product that only cost £21 ! And that's to Ireland, not India or Malaysia or any of these other countries the Govt are hoping we'll export to. That's why I was always very dubious about these trumpeted "new trade opportunities."

I can confirm the order to Ireland (Cork actually) did get there, at least the tracking said it did anyway.