On April 7, 2023, Multi-Channel Fulfilment (MCF) fees will be increased across some size tiers to reflect rising operational costs brought about by inflationary pressures and to help ensure that we can continue to provide best-in-class fulfilment services for your business.

The fee updates include the following:

• A small decrease, or no change, for envelope size tiers.
• An increase for parcel size and oversize size tiers.

Envelope and parcel tiers will continue to benefit from our recently introduced multi-unit discounts, which offer cheaper per-unit rates for multi-unit orders.

Multi-Channel Fulfilment improvements

To continue to support your business growth, we’ve made the following improvements:

• Unbranded packaging in the UK, available at no additional cost.
• ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification of our IT security systems, demonstrating our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of data security and compliance.
• An on-time delivery rate of more than 98%.

For more information and the detailed rates, go to Multi-Channel Fulfilment: 2023 UK fee updates

Payments Terms of Use | eBay.com

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Customs forms | USPS News Link

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Poor controls, no management commitment, 3rd party consultant, no scope of work....

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Interesting article on a shift to US competitive advantage.  Collaboration or Competition?

National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf (whitehouse.gov)

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Every US company, large or small, must know and comply with all export laws. 

"Our goal is to empower companies to do the right thing,  — while empowering our prosecutors to hold accountable those who don’t follow the law...We will add more than 25 new prosecutors who will investigate and prosecute sanctions evasion, export control violations and similar economic crimes."

U.S. Department of State Concludes $20,000,000 Settlement of Alleged Export Violations by 3D Systems Corporation - United States Department of State

$10M has been suspended for remedial actions to improve compliance.  The company EMAILED drawings to Germany and China.  E-mail is a mode of export that is under US Export Control Laws. 

The S&DC rollout rolls on: Implementation & Impacts of Delivery Network Transformation - Save the Post Office

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