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This is something I also don't understand. I'm in Switzerland, which is small, so we order a lot from outside the country. All of the bg courier services add a
by bradley13 3y ago
This is something I also don't understand. I'm in Switzerland, which is small, so we order a lot from outside the country. All of the bg courier services add a delivery fee - but the seller already paid for shipping? There are a few services (Border Free comes to mind) that work, but otherwise we try to get shipping by the postal system. Germany, of course, has literally outsourced their postal system to DHL :-(
- ffhhttt 3y agoBut you don’t have to pay import duties and VAT if you buy from EU countries? e.g. these day if I order anything from the UK (to an EU country) the package gets stuck in customs and I have to pay VAT(20%) + Import duty (optional depending on product type/value) + random service fee.
- ornornor 3y agoIn CH the first 62.- is free and after that you pay VAT. Which also means that for 5.- VAT they add a racket fee of 20—30.- on top for their efforts.
- ornornor 3y agoYes this is something that infuriated me too. Especially that the “paper pushing fee” is often more than the actual VAT due, and I live 5 min away from the federal customs office. But I checked all I could and in Switzerland you’re not allowed to take the option of clearing the package yourself and so have to pay the courier’s racket. The beauty of it is that how expensive the fee is depends on the level of service the sender picked, and you don’t even know how much the fee will be because they drop the parcel off and send you a bill a couple weeks later. I never order abroad anymore and when I’m forced to, I only do it if they’ll ship through the regular post office as Swiss post is the least predatory in their “handling fees”… but like everything in CH: caveat emptor.