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25 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"Standard" road transit packages from UK to EU are suffering big delays. Services that took 1-3 days in 2020 are often taking 2 weeks to be delivered, and that is after numerous calls to customer services and investigations; or they are simply disappearing off all radar..
These are not coronavirus issues, UPS is stating publicly to their customers that these are "due to BREXIT related disruption." UPS is clearly one of the top couriers and I didn't experience one lost package over many years of service from them shipping into the EU27, previously
question is whether packages from other non-EU countries are ALSO suffering delays?
(I'd suggest no: supply there meets demand)

WHAT is causing these delays for UK-specific exports?
(I'd suggest lack of capacity/supply of relevant customs experience & IT systems) @gideon_
basic bottom line question is: Why isn't a top courier like UPS prepared for these difficulties? Are these issues truly beyond their control?
(I'd suggest yes:Gov generally not provided experienced declarations capacity to meet out of CU&SM demands. Can be 1000s of parcel p/load

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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
27 Jan
Without wishing to labour basic point once again too much. When I joined the Freight Forwarding/Customs industry in 1985 supply of ports/infrastructure/tech support (telex & then fax 🙄)/*experience* roughly met demand. As an older guy neared retirement we'd look to find a newbie
to train up surrounded by a tiered level of experienced staff to supervise. The introduction of the Single Market on top of an improving admin streamlined expanding Customs Union meant as the older generations dissipated away there was no longer the need to find so many newbies
The loss of a need for customs clearances; painstakingly looking to qualify under rules of origin with a cert of origin; having to certify standards of produce to ship meant the volumes of trade multiplied exponentially esp in the 2000s. It had become progressively easier for any
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
26 Jan
It might be worse than "economists warned about" but not worse than we mere (ex) Freight Fowarding/Customs Agents tried to warn of....Read

"The reality of Brexit is much, much worse than we economists warned about. It goes like this. The British economy is starting to shut down
like a heart attack. Europe is simply stopping sending goods to Britain, and Britain to Europe.
The costs involved have soared from “nothing” to “impossible.” Nobody’s had to fill out customs/SPS forms and declarations in these places for over thirty years.
since then, economies have changed. It’s not so easy to declare where a thing was “made” or if it ever touched this kind of raw material or that or what its intended use is The only option is to pay a fortune to someone who can. Faced with mountains of paperwork for each shipment
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
25 Jan
The EU27 are applying the existing rules (which UK helped make) consistently to non EU (non SM&CU) countries.

Legally they must do.

UK chose to be a non EU (non SM&CU) country.

UK has lost the EU (SM&CU) benefits.

It is not EU27 being "difficult" @LanceForman @IndBusNet
EU never going to reciprocate UK (WTO illegal) 6 months "border facilitation" *smugglers charter* esp when transition extension declined. NI bound by Johnson's 2019 "victory" of swinging SM/SPS border for goods/food & UCC from across IRL to between GB & NI @LanceForman @IndBusNet
The reason for 6 months "border facilitation" is not because of UK generousity..but simply because UK is not ready/does not have the experienced customs capacity nor regulatory capacity for present volumes of trade outside the Customs Union & Single Market @LanceForman @IndBusNet
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
24 Jan
So "Freeports"..extra internal "hard" borders galore for "freedom loving Brits"..but also something more sinister? for desperate, deliberately collapsed economy, workers?

A "freeport" its own authority. Whatever imported into it free of tariffs & (if host country/Gov permits it)
free of host country regulations; also free of international rules eg WTO (if not member of these bodies)
The question is where will these "freeports" sell to?
Other "freeports" ..and UK Gov under current regime (through "approved" businesses) could contract to buy?
regardless of the conditions inside the
(Bangladesh on Tees/Ethiopia on Menai Straits) "freeport" to make the finished product/s. All out of legal reach of UK/EU (any) trade deal breaking deregulating repercussions?

Perhaps then add enough extra content inside UK proper
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
23 Jan
Add another one @YorksBylines @uk_domain_names

SOOO much NOT understanding what out of SM&CU meant

"As far as I can see there's no deal, there's no free trade, the Canada agreement he went on about does not exist"

YES it does. The TCA is better with some FOM for trucks!!
"customers are paying 23% plus 14% VAT and duty. This makes a removal to Portugal uneconomical."
Clients are either cancelling their removals or doing without their goods for the time being, waiting for the trade deal dust to settle".

YOU'LL BE WAITING A LONG FEKKING TIME
People esp businesses *should* have known what being a non EU (SM&CU) member meant, regardless of the (*any* FTA) bloody "deal"...
but again I also hold the main opposition & MSM complicit/culpable in not explaining this clearly & repeatedly itv.com/news/anglia/20…
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Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧 Profile picture
21 Jan
UK Border Force is being called on to vacate a temporary border control post at Ashford International Truck Stop & move to a permanent location as soon as possible.Private customs brokers claim “poorly trained” Border Force officers are unable to effectively carry out their role
causing truck congestion.
One source noted that because trucks waiting for paperwork to be finalised by Border Force are charged after two hours , drivers are looking for other nearby areas to park, including space reserved for private customs agency clients.
“This means our clients can’t get in to be served and are finding themselves turned away by police. In one instance a driver had to take an *80-mile round trip*,” the source said. “I do not blame the drivers, it is as frustrating for them as it is for us, because they have
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