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As of July 1st the EU is now recommending the use of IOSS on all sales of goods through ecommerce from the UK to EU. This is suppose to be streamlining the VAT and duty process. In actual fact the whole process of setting it up has been a complete nightmare with everyone providing contradictory information and the integration of Shopify to royal mail being non-existent. As such myself and my team have been currently unable to find a viable solution to have in place for the 1st July. Considering the IOSS does not go live until tomorrow we foresee a...

As of 31st October the UK government has announced the UK is to enter a nationwide lockdown as of Thursday 5th November. While this sounds like a dramatic change it is in fact going to have very little effect on the running of my store or indeed my day to day life.  We have been told to continue working if we cannot work from home so I will still be travelling to my day job and my children will be continuing to go to school. I will still be able to post parcels as all post offices will remain open. ...

Hi, I hope you are all keeping well.  I just wanted to give you an update as it has been a while since I last. After 5 months in lockdown looking after my children I have now returned to my full time job (boo) what does this mean for the store? Well not much really...... I have always run this store as a sideline in my spare time and have managed quite well to date. I will continue to maintain stock levels with small casting runs at weekends and my agreement with work is to take days out when we...