For UK sellers
Sell to the EU without the customs step
Brexit did not close the EU to you — it added a border to every parcel. The way around it is not a faster courier. It is to have the stock already on the other side, so the parcel your customer waits for is a domestic one.
The portal is in English. Sign up with just your email address — no contract, no minimum.
What this actually is
This is not a courier that collects from your UK address. Your stock travels to the EU once, as one shipment, and sits with a verified person in the country you sell to. They pack each order and drop it at a service point there. From your customer's point of view it is an ordinary domestic parcel.
Everything below is about that model. If you want to keep shipping every order individually from the UK, this is not the page for you.
What the border costs you
Charges at the door
Your customer opens the tracking page and finds a bill. Import VAT, a handling fee from the carrier, and since 1 July 2026 a customs duty on low-value consignments as well. Most of those parcels are refused, and a refused parcel is a refund plus a return.
Delivery times you cannot promise
Clearance is not a fixed number of days. It is a range, and a range is not something you can put on a product page next to a delivery date.
A returns address on the wrong side
A return that has to cross the border back is a second customs process, and it is the reason a lot of UK shops simply stopped shipping to the EU.
What a domestic parcel looks like instead
These are the countries where our rate card has a domestic service today, with the delivery time it reports. Straight from the card, refreshed every night.
- AustriaNext-day deliveryfrom €7.25
- BelgiumNext-day deliveryfrom €5.38
- FranceNext-day deliveryfrom €8.62
- GermanyDelivered within 2 working daysfrom €6.00
- ItalyDelivered within 2 working daysfrom €4.46
- NetherlandsNext-day deliveryfrom €5.50
- SpainNext-day deliveryfrom €8.00
The part nobody else puts on the page
Holding stock in the Netherlands means you are doing business in the Netherlands, and that means a Dutch VAT registration — from the moment you hold the stock, with no threshold. OSS does not replace it, and a business established outside the EU generally needs a fiscal representative as well.
That is a real cost and a real bit of administration. We would rather you knew it now than after your first box shipped.
Read what the VAT rules actually sayStart with one box
Send a single box of your bestsellers — twenty or so — to one sender and see what it does to your delivery times and your refund rate. No fulfilment contract, no notice period, no minimum order volume. If it does not work out, you ask for your stock back.
Whoever holds your stock is verified
A sender can only receive stock and pick up orders after two checks: an identity check with passport and selfie, and a payout account verified in their own name. That is not a badge on a profile but a limit in our database — without both, no order reaches them.
In transit the carrier is liable and we file the claim. Stock at your sender’s is not insured — hence the one box.
Questions UK sellers ask
Do I need an EU company for this?
No. You do need a VAT registration in the country where your stock is held, and a business established outside the EU generally has to appoint a fiscal representative there. We do not arrange either, and we do not give tax advice — our article on storing stock in the EU explains what the rules say and links to the sources.
How does my stock get to the EU in the first place?
As one export shipment, once, instead of as one export per order. That crossing still has customs formalities, but it happens once for a whole batch and it happens between you and a carrier — not at your customer's front door.
Can I ship from the UK with AirPost?
No, and we would rather say so plainly. Our rate card has no domestic service inside Great Britain today — only outbound, at a rate no small shop would pay per order — so there is nothing to pack there. This works the other way round: your stock goes to the EU once and ships domestically from there. The countries page shows the live position rather than this sentence, so check it there.
What about the €150 rule I keep reading about?
Two different things share that number. The €150 ceiling for IOSS — charging EU VAT at checkout so the parcel is not held for a VAT payment — still exists. The customs duty relief for consignments under €150 does not: it was abolished on 1 July 2026 and replaced with a flat charge per low-value consignment. Stock that is already inside the EU is not an import, so neither applies to it.
What is the minimum volume?
There is none. One box and one order is a valid way to start, and it is how we suggest you do start. There is no storage fee while that box sits there, so a slow month costs you nothing.
Who actually holds my stock?
A person in the country you sell to, with a verified identity and a payout account in their own name, who has told us how much space they have and how many parcels a week they can handle. Their profile shows their region, the carriers they can use and the fee they charge before you agree to anything.
What happens if a parcel goes missing?
The carrier is responsible for delivery and we help you file the claim. Verification keeps anonymous fraud out; it is not an insurance policy, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Not a UK seller?
This page is about Brexit friction specifically. If your question is about delivery times across Europe generally, or about the cost of fulfilment without a warehouse, those are two other pages.
What we charge
AirPost adds a flat platform fee of €0.85 per parcel, already included in every rate you see. On top of that you pay the carrier label and the fee your sender sets. No subscription, no storage cost, no per-seat pricing, and nothing to pay while your stock sits still.