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Parcels from overseas, and especially from China, could become more expensive after January 2021 (depending on what the UK Government decides to do). The UPU, a postal organisation that most countries belong to, has agreed to change its system.
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It used to be that the postal service in the destination country could only charge very low rates for the final delivery of goods from "developing" nations, and China was on the list. With the changes, they will be able to push prices up substantially if they want.
The US will be changing next year - it gets a head start as part of the agreement. And then other countries get a chance to vary their rates from Jan 2021.

(Not specifically Brexit-related, but a heads-up that this is potentially coming down the pipe soon...)
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White smoke. Unless Boris Johnson does something truly mind-blowingly stupid in the next 3 days, 31 October goes back to being Halloween and nothing else. Thank you, EU! You're better friends to us than we deserve, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate that friendship!
I'm sure we'll get more details *very* soon, but the EU seem to have cooked Boris Johnson's goose by refusing to give him a piddly little extension until mid-November so that he could have another quick bash at the WAB. Instead, they granted us *exactly* what we asked for.
Added: my "mind-blowingly stupid" reference in the first tweet refers to the fact that we still have to record the new date in domestic law, otherwise we will "leave" the EU while still being firmly inside the EU. Should be routine, but with BJ *nothing* is ever routine.
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"We need to talk about democracy. You know Parliament..."
"The 650 MPs elected by the British people to represent them?"
"Yep. And you know Government..."
"The unelected group of MPs from a minority party trying to run the country, led by a leader chosen by under 100,000 Tories?"
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"So a group elected by tens of millions to represent them are trying to block an unelected mob from harming all of us? Sounds sensible. What is Parliament trying to block?"
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"Brexit?"
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Wow, the hypocrisy of this considering that Labour has had 8,433,112,324,332 opportunities to stop Brexit, and done nothing. Remind me who sabotaged the Joanna Cherry amendment which would have stopped no deal. Oh yes, Labour. Hey ho.
Because at the moment, we have:
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Labour: Brexit, but with more hummus
LibDems: Revoke and Remain

When you've covered yourself in the opposite of glory, best not to draw too much attention to yourself.
Typical of Labour. All the way along, you have managed to create distractions, calamities, scandals and chaos that kept wrenching the spotlight back on you. Today, facing critical votes on our next step, you've done it again: whacked the dead cat of "divided Remain" on the table.
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