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Website closed on 20th April 2012
I very much regret that the Badgeshop Ireland website was closed down at the end of business
on Friday 20th April, 2012. This is because of a reduction in postal services and new charges by the
UK's Royal Mail which will come into effect on 30th April, 2012. Since Royal Mail has a total
monopoly on handling letters and light-weight small packets from the UK to overseas destinations
there are no alternatives available.
Royal Mail have decided to discontinue the Surface Mail service to the Irish Republic and they have
increased the minimum cost for business letters and small packets by airmail from €1.75 to €3.27 - a
swingeing 87% increase! Adding the average cost of packaging materials and petrol at around €1.75 a
litre for taking items to my local post office means that shipping even a single badge to Ireland
will cost €3.95. That's more than the price of another badge!
In my opinion it is simply far too much and amounts to nothing less than daylight robbery! I have no
doubt buyers in Ireland will feel the same way, and I wouldn't blame them.
How to place an order after 20th April 2012
There are two alternatives for placing new orders from 21st April 2012 onwards:
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Visit the UK website at
www.badgeshop.co.uk
and place your order in the usual way. Before checking out go to the
Shipping page and add the Ireland Airmail supplementary charge of GBP £3.50 to your
order.
If you don't add this supplementary charge to your order it will get cancelled and
refunded to your PayPal or card account. |
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If you happen to know someone in the 6 counties and are
close enough to meet up with them occasionally, you could perhaps order from the UK
website at:
www.badgeshop.co.uk and (with their permission) give their UK address for the
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Apart from these two methods I'm afraid there are no other alternatives, because so far as I am
aware there are no suppliers in the Republic of Ireland who offer similar products.
So I'll close by saying I'm very sorry if you are inconvenienced by the closure.
Thank you all for your custom over the past 8 years and I'll say goodbye.
With my best wishes for the future,
Bob Oswald
The Badge Shop
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