🎅🎁☃️👩💻 I got an email response from the Cabinet office on my Brexit challenge to why gifts sent to family & friends in the EU are now being charged customs for them to collect. So we in the UK buy a gift or knit up cardigans & warm clothes & blankets for children ...pay Royal Mail tracking ....yet those we send to get demanded to pay customs to collect...Reports of this from my experience sending to Family Link Up, to others around me & in PM constituency experience this sending to Portugal, to Ireland...
The snippet screenshots will give you feel of my pdf letter received... it puts blame on EU ..not our crazy referendum or failure of Lord Frost & PM to respect we have family & friends in the EU,...negiotation to allow for this!
■ note that my gift parcels value are far less than 150€ the customs to be charged figure..yet had been incurring charge demands to collect.
■ BUT, look at that last paragraph... when we in the UK buy a gift here in the UK ..then send to our loved ones...that is NOT e-commerce. That rule from 1st July applies to EU citizens ordering goods from outside the EU thus import duty is applied! Now we brexited we are a country outside the EU..so if customers in EU order from our British traders then they are charged import duty. Betty's our well loved Yorkshire exclusive food company as stopped EU orders as too complicated & expensive..EVEN Prince Charles Duchy food company been affected ..so Charles ain't too happy ..
Note: I have just received information from Save the Children charity.. if we purchase fundraising children's books and then send to families & friends in EU ..that they will be charged customs!!
So I am disappointed with this response and failure to see my points. We need our EU citizens to challenge this through their MEPs ..we in UK no longer have MEPs... Needless to say my email response letter is now with my MP John McDonnell, with Lord Dubs PA, with local councillors and with my contact in the Flemish House London.
Brexit is failing us ..by the distortion of facts fed to British citizens that led to this situation plus a gov that quite frankly does not respect or even understand all spin off effects from poor negiotations.. this is inceasingly worrying ...as are we really in safe hands...???!!!!
Lord Dubs still awaits a direct response from Lord Frost, the Brexit minister on the case that refugees being sent gifts and aid are being charged customs.
Here is the communication link I used and you all have a constitutional right to use ..to raise issues direct to the Cabinet Office. REMEMBER WE HAVE A VOICE for our public servants to hear... that is our constitutional democratic right to challenge malpolicies.
