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Since the deviant felon, sexual abuser and overall orange clown decided to tax the suffering US Citizens with import tariffs, he has managed to TACO for many months. But earlier this month they actually came into force and thanks to this the International Shipper which we usually use has from today announced a temporary pause on US bound shipments. This pause is down to the fact that many parcels are being either returned to sender or delayed for weeks due to unpaid tariffs.

I know these tariffs are illegal and the courts are currently ruling on the fact that the Senate is the only body that can approve additional taxes on the US citizens. The goons in this regime may believe that suppliers will “eat” the tariffs but the plain answer is – nope.

Sendle are currently working on a new Delivered Duty Paid service – which will be available next month but just to be clear all prices for US Citizens will be imposed an additional 10% tax (which I believe is the current tariff for Australian import . . . but who knows!).

FedEx services are still available and the cheaper Sendle shipping will hopefully be reinstated in the coming month albeit with the additional tariffs applied.

Thanks

Steve

• LATEST UPDATE – 12th September – Well it keeps going downhill, to ship anything with FedEx requires that the receiver must have a FedEx account for them to charge the tariff. So the only option to keep FedEx as an option to ship to the US is by charging the tariff on the site since I will be charged it by FedEx. Unfortunately until I have time to sort out adding the tariff to the website I will be halting all sales to the US.
• UPDATE – 26th August – Nothing improves – in fact it gets worse as AusPost (who I was looking to add as a cheaper option to FedEx) have also put a pause on all parcel shipments to the US due to tariffs, so at this point in time the only option I have is FedEx.
• UPDATE – 16th September – US Shipments are back via FedEx only – the 10% tariff is added at checkout which is then charged by FedEx. As usual will closely monitor just what the orange clown, nutlick and the other clowns in charge decide to do.

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So I have finished the previous stock of AusPost pre-paid Standard and Express bags and sadly since AusPost decided to hike the prices once again. Standard postage bags going from $9.20 to $11.00 and Express going from $11.20 to $14.40!

Hence all AusPost shipping prices have been raised in line with these prices, Sendle however is still an option and for most of Australia is now the cheapest option.

Thanks

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