Postage To UK From Us?

That happened to me once. I got a refund minus the handling fee. In my case, they read the US dollar customs value and postage as being in £'s rather than $.

"Duty and VAT are calculated as a percentage of the value of the imported goods, consisting of the product value and the freight & insurance costs."

This is why I sometimes ask the folks I buy stuff from to split the shipment into more than one packages. I pay a bit more in postage but that is offset by the fact that Royal Mail\Parcel Force will charge £8 handling fee.

Ken

That's kind of absurd; it's like taxing you on the tax. Had you gone to the country and hand-carried the item back, you'd pay no extra fee on the cost of your plane ticket, would you?