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1 │ Monday-Morning Shock: A Real-Life Inbox Ping “Subject: Upcoming change to UK FBA fulfilment fees — action required.”Coffee still brewing, you open the PDF and see every size band you’d memorised has swapped names—and prices.* If you sell t-shirts, backpacks, or yoga leggings via FBA, that e-mail just became your P&L’s new boss. Let’s...

1 │ Why This Matters—A Quick Reality Check Warehousing isn’t sexy, but it quietly eats margin. Most 3PLs charge two ways: Per-pallet, per-week (typical: £2.75–£4.50). Per cubic foot, per-week (typical: £0.35–£0.55). Miss a peak sell-through forecast by 10 % and you could spend an extra four figures a month on “rent for boxes.” You don’t...

1 │ A 48-Hour Warning E-mail On a rainy Tuesday, Emma—owner of a booming kitchen-gadgets brand—opens Seller Central to find a red-flag notice: “Your ASINs will incur a £1.15/unit non-compliance fee starting 1 July 2025 unless enrolled in SIPP.” Two days earlier she’d barely heard of Amazon’s Ships in Product Packaging programme. Now her margins—and...

1 │ Cold-Brew & Cold Reality At 6 a.m., founder Jack unlocks his garage-turned-warehouse, armed with a cold-brew and an even colder realisation: orders have doubled overnight. Great news—except he now needs bigger racks, new staff, and a forklift licence. Should he keep fulfilment in-house, or hand the keys to a 3PL? In 2025, the...

UK 3PL Fulfilment: 20 Questions Every Shopify Merchant Asks Scaling a Shopify store in 2025 often comes down to one decision: in-house packing vs. outsourcing to a UK-based third-party logistics provider (3PL). The right partner slashes pick-pack time, unlocks Prime-speed delivery and frees you to launch new products. But first come the questions—lots of them....

UPS and FedEx both bill U.S. parcels on the larger of actual vs. dimensional (DIM) weight once any side exceeds 12 inches. That means a 5-pound frying-pan box measuring 16 × 12 × 4″ ships—and bills—as 8 pounds. Kitchenware brands leak margin daily because empty air is expensive. Ready to fix that? The 7 Hack...

Since 1 January 2021 every carton that leaves Great Britain for the EU is treated as a third-country export. Add 2024–25 rule-changes—ICS2 Phase 3 advance data, the UK’s Border Target Operating Model (BTOM), and new low-value VAT schemes—and confusion multiplies. This guide strips away the jargon so UK sellers can ship to France, Germany or...

Any fulfillment chain is only as strong as the moment your inventory hits the dock. One mislabeled pallet stalls your entire Amazon business with charge-backs, lost sell-through, and nightmare vendor performance metrics. Use this 25-point warehouse receiving checklist to guarantee every carton, pallet, and master case meets Amazon’s exacting standards—whether you ship to FBA or...

Glass shipment damage costs the global industry £3.7 billion every year—much of it driven by inadequate e-commerce packaging.impactograph.com When premium glass brand Paşabahçe began scaling D2C sales in the UK and Europe, breakage spiked to alarming levels. This 2025 case study shows how a rapid switch to UK Pre Fulfilment—combined with ISTA-certified packaging—cut breakage 42...

Rising labor costs, volatile cardboard prices and post-Brexit compliance rules have pushed pick-and-pack fees to the top of every e-commerce P&L. Whether you ship 200 or 20 000 orders a month, understanding today’s market rates—and the fine print behind them—can save (or sink) your margin. This guide distils fresh 2025 data from UK 3PL rate...