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An Post said today that Brexit will have no impact on letters sent to and from Britain.
He also said that Brexit will have no impact on letters and packages to and from Northern Ireland.
But packages to Britain will require customs forms, as will all non-EU countries, An Post said.
As of January 1, charges such as VAT will be applied to GB products and electronic customs data will be required for each item prior to shipment / dispatch.
An Post said it already handles more than 10 million packages each year from non-EU countries, all of which are available for inspection by Irish Customs.
The more than 16 million packages An Post receives annually from Britain will join this stream of incoming packages which will be presented to Customs from 1 January.
He said that when Customs decides that VAT or customs charges are applicable to GB products, customers will pay these charges in their shopping basket to the online retailer, or directly through An Post online or in an office post before delivery.
Meanwhile, 95% of online purchases received by An Post from Britain will be delivered normally and An Post said it has been working closely with UK online retailers for whom it delivers to implement a hassle-free process for Irish online shoppers.
Most of the UK online retailers for whom An Post ships have subscribed to a digital solution that allows the buyer to include all charges in the shopping cart at the point of purchase so that items can be deliver to customer as normal.
The remaining 5% will require customers to pay customs / duty charges before delivery.
An Post said it has created a new online portal to allow customers to pay charges with just a few clicks and that the item will be delivered as normal. Alternatively, customers can pay the charges at any post office. Postal delivery staff will no longer collect charges at the door, he added.
But An Post’s virtual address product, AddressPal, will be affected by the Brexit and Customs 2020 changes.
He said current AddressPal UK customers must register a home delivery address in their account in order to pay the charges owed. Currently some customers have a local post office as their delivery address, but it can no longer be used as the customer’s registered address.
An AddressPal UK service fee of € 6.50 will include a variety of delivery options (once customs charges have been cleared), including delivery to a local post office or neighbor, which will be offered to customers. customers by text message.
Charges and an administrative fee of € 3.50 will apply to all items.
An Post said it will monitor the impact of the changes to the service in the coming months.
In addition to making preparations for Brexit, An Post has also been preparing for the largest change to the customs regime in the history of the State: the implementation of Customs 2020, the EU program to allow national customs administrations to create and exchange information. electronically, “said Cyril McGrane, An Post’s Director of International Trade.
“Our priority is to make changes as easy as possible for customers,” he added.
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