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What we learn about shipping, fulfilment and earning from home — without the sales pitch.
How payouts work when you pack parcels from home: scan, hold, threshold, bank
When a fee is yours, why it is held for 3 days, what the €10.00 threshold means, what the 3% commission covers, and how the money reaches an account in your own name — in euros or, for British senders, in pounds.
· 11 min read
- For senders
Why you verify your identity to pack parcels from home — and what a shop actually sees
What the identity check involves, why a payout account in your own name is the other half of it, what a shop sees of you (a username and a region, not your address), what the carrier sees, and what verification does not mean.
· 11 min read
- For senders
What you need to pack parcels from home — and what you don’t
Four things you need to start packing parcels for online shops from home — a dry shelf, a printer, an ID and a bank account in your name — and the longer list of what you do not: a registered business, a car, experience or any money up front. Plus the nine sign-up steps, the four parcel sizes, and where this work exists today.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
A Shopify fulfilment app without a warehouse: how orders reach a sender near your customer
How a Shopify store routes paid orders to verified individuals who hold its stock at home in the customer’s country — one sender or several at once, a shipping method per product and country, and tracking back in Shopify. Costs per order and the limits.
· 12 min read
- For online shops
Shopify dropshipping vs peer-to-peer fulfilment: an honest comparison
Both models mean you never touch a parcel, and that is where the resemblance ends. Stock risk, transit time, margin, control, customs and returns compared side by side — including the rows where dropshipping wins.
· 12 min read
- For online shops
Offering one order to several senders at once: how broadcast routing works
A single person holding your stock is a dependency; several are a network. How an order is offered to every sender in a country who has the item, who wins it, what they see before and after, what it costs in stock, and when one sender is the better design.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
Pickup point vs home delivery in Europe: which default, in which country
Three delivery forms — pickup point, locker, door — on the three axes a rate card does not show: who moves, what fails, and what customers in each country expect. With a country-by-country default, the exceptions, and how to set it per product and country when someone else packs.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
How to ship to Germany without a German warehouse
Two ways to serve German customers: send every parcel across the border, or hold one batch of stock with a verified sender in Germany and ship domestic parcels. Costs, customs since July 2026, what German customers expect, the packaging law nobody tells you about, and how to test it with one box.
· 12 min read
- For online shops
How to ship to France without a French warehouse
Two ways to serve French customers: send every parcel across the border, or hold one batch with a verified sender in France and ship domestic parcels. Why the point relais changes the argument, the customs position since July 2026, the VAT and packaging rules, and how to test it with one box.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
How to ship to the Netherlands and Belgium without a warehouse in either
The Benelux as one market for a British or European shop: what changes when a parcel starts inside the country, whether one batch can serve both countries, what Dutch and Belgian customers expect from delivery, the customs and VAT position, and how to test it with a single box.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
How to ship to Spain without a Spanish warehouse
Two ways to serve Spanish customers: send every parcel across the border, or hold one batch with a verified sender in Spain and ship domestic parcels. Why distance makes Spain the market where local stock pays off soonest, the customs position since July 2026, the VAT rules, the islands, and how to test it with one box.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
Your first order without a warehouse, step by step
From an empty account to a delivered order in eight steps: profile and balance, choosing a sender from the card, the VAT and customs step if your batch crosses a border, the first batch, creating the order in the chat, label and tracking, and what cancelling gives back. With a checklist for before you start.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
Parcel lost or damaged: what a shop does next, and the deadlines that decide it
The three kinds of carrier claim — lost, damaged, delivered-but-not-received — with the deadline for each (7 or 30 days by default, shorter with some carriers), what you must supply, how the investigation runs, why no one can promise you an amount, and what to set up now so a claim succeeds later.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
How much stock to send a sender: sizing the first batch
Every guide says "about a month of orders". This one works it out: orders a month, units per order and the time a top-up takes, plus the two reasons to go smaller — the capital you can afford to lose and the space on the sender’s card. With a worked example, a table by volume, and when to send the second batch.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
What is peer-to-peer fulfilment? The model, the costs, and where it breaks
A definition of peer-to-peer fulfilment, how it differs from self-shipping, a 3PL and dropshipping on six axes, what it costs per order, and the four situations where it is the wrong answer.
· 13 min read
- For online shops
We just launched: a fulfilment network with no warehouse in it
AirPost is a peer-to-peer fulfilment network for small European shops: someone near your customers holds a batch of your stock and packs your orders. This is what it does today, what it does not do yet, and what it costs.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
Peer-to-peer fulfilment vs a 3PL: which is cheaper under 200 orders a month?
The five cost items in a 3PL quote, why cost per order is the only comparable number, and where the two models cross — with a calculator so you can put your own quote next to it.
· 12 min read
- For online shops
How to ship domestically in Europe without opening a warehouse
Why a domestic parcel beats a cross-border one on price, transit time and customs, what you have to arrange in each market to hold stock there, and how to test one country with a single box.
· 12 min read
- For online shops
EU fulfilment without minimum orders: 8 providers compared
Eight fulfilment providers in Europe that take small sellers, with the minimum each one actually publishes, how they charge for storage, and which countries they hold stock in. Alphabetical, and we are last.
· 12 min read
- For online shops
Selling to the EU without customs charges: the four routes compared
Since July 2026 every low-value import carries €3 per product type. The four ways around it — delivered duty unpaid, DDP, IOSS and holding stock inside the EU — with the cases where each one, including ours, is the wrong answer.
· 13 min read
- For online shops
The EU's €3 customs charge: what UK sellers actually pay in 2026
Since 1 July 2026 the €150 duty relief is gone and every low-value consignment carries €3 per product type — charged to you, not to your customer. What that costs per order, why a three-item parcel is €9, and what it does to your margin.
· 11 min read
- For online shops
IOSS versus holding stock in the EU: where is the break-even?
One route has no fixed cost and pays €3 per product type on every order. The other has a VAT registration to pay for and no duty at all. At what monthly volume do they cross, and what moves that point?
· 12 min read
- For online shops
Where to hold stock in Europe: the Netherlands, Germany, France or Spain?
Four candidate countries for your EU stock, compared on the things a rate card does not show: VAT registration, deferring import VAT, whether you need a fiscal representative, and how far each one reaches.
· 12 min read
- For senders
How much can you earn packing parcels from home?
A real calculation instead of a promise: what you are paid per parcel size, what the platform takes, how long a parcel takes, what is left at the end of the month and of the year, and where the work exists at all.
· 12 min read
- For senders
Is packing parcels from home a scam?
Reshipping scams are real and packing work from home looks a lot like one. How the scam works, the five things that give it away and what each one weighs, what to do if you are already in one, and where a legitimate platform is different.
· 13 min read
- For online shops
VAT when you store stock in another EU country
Holding stock in the Netherlands makes you liable to register for Dutch VAT, with no threshold — and OSS does not replace that. What that means per situation, how the €3 customs charge of July 2026 changes the sum, and whether the registration is worth it.
· 13 min read