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This is not going to be fun for Ireland. Ireland doesn't have its own regional Amazon, but the UK one would have great fast shipping. I wonder if shipping from

This is not going to be fun for Ireland. Ireland doesn't have its own regional Amazon, but the UK one would have great fast shipping. I wonder if shipping from Amazon DE or FR will be more popular in the future.

tonyedgecombe 6y ago
I seem to remember that Ireland was planning on opening up more direct shipping routes to mainland Europe.
AnssiH 6y ago
Amazon might end free shipping to Ireland from amazon.co.uk and start doing it from amazon.de instead. This switch was done to a number of other European countries within the last decade (inc. Finland). edit: OTOH, I just realized Ireland uses the UK electrical plug, which complicates buying electric stuff from amazon.de a bit...
netcan 6y ago
There are services that take delivery in newry (northern ireland) and deliver to dublin. Presumably, they'll still work. Shipping to ireland often costs more anyway, and not everything ships outside the UK.
- corty 6y ago
  Yes, that was also expected: Northern Ireland becoming a smugglers' haven...
- Symbiote 6y ago
  I don't know how it would work, but the legal border of the EU customs union would be the NI/RoI border, but with some extra paperwork meaning, in practise, the border is the Irish Sea. Maybe asking a friend in Belfast to forward a parcel to Dublin will continue without any checks, but a parcel forwarding service is unlikely to go unnoticed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_and_the_Irish_border#2019_renegotiation:_New_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_and_the_Irish_border#20...
  - netcan 6y ago
    I'll bet a fiver it will.
jeffrallen 6y ago
Or buying from your neighbor at his store in your village?
kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
Northern Ireland might prove to be useful.
intellirogue 6y ago
.de tends to be the "catch-all" Amazon for EU, and I suspect would be used for Ireland, as it is available in English (which .it, .fr etc aren't).

tonyedgecombe 6y ago

I seem to remember that Ireland was planning on opening up more direct shipping routes to mainland Europe.

AnssiH 6y ago

Amazon might end free shipping to Ireland from amazon.co.uk and start doing it from amazon.de instead. This switch was done to a number of other European countries within the last decade (inc. Finland). edit: OTOH, I just realized Ireland uses the UK electrical plug, which complicates buying electric stuff from amazon.de a bit...

netcan 6y ago

There are services that take delivery in newry (northern ireland) and deliver to dublin. Presumably, they'll still work. Shipping to ireland often costs more anyway, and not everything ships outside the UK.

corty 6y ago
Yes, that was also expected: Northern Ireland becoming a smugglers' haven...
Symbiote 6y ago
I don't know how it would work, but the legal border of the EU customs union would be the NI/RoI border, but with some extra paperwork meaning, in practise, the border is the Irish Sea. Maybe asking a friend in Belfast to forward a parcel to Dublin will continue without any checks, but a parcel forwarding service is unlikely to go unnoticed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_and_the_Irish_border#2019_renegotiation:_New_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_and_the_Irish_border#20...
- netcan 6y ago
  I'll bet a fiver it will.

jeffrallen 6y ago

Or buying from your neighbor at his store in your village?

kevin_thibedeau 6y ago

Northern Ireland might prove to be useful.

intellirogue 6y ago

.de tends to be the "catch-all" Amazon for EU, and I suspect would be used for Ireland, as it is available in English (which .it, .fr etc aren't).