Experience with international shipment from Freeplaytech?

[Flavor]

I can't really help you determine the VAT/customs duties. Every receiving country is different, and it seems that sometimes the official doing the assessment has a lot to do with it. Germany seems to be the one country where this matters the most. From our perspective, it's very random.

I can give you some tracking information from a handful of past orders we've shipped to the UK.

Order A: First Class USPS to GB, Shipped Feb 8, Delivered Feb 20
Order B: First Class USPS to GB, Shipped Jan 30, Delivered Feb 8
Order C: First Class USPS to Scotland, Shipped Jan 22, Delivered Feb 1
Order D: First Class USPS to Leeds, Shipped Dec 12, Delivered Dec 21
Order E: Priority USPS to Leeds (same customer as Order D), Shipped Oct 4, Delivered Oct 18

Note that the first 3 are just some samples I grabbed. I had to go back a ways to find someone that chose Priority Mail to the UK, but I found one that had 2 shipments (one First Class and the other Priority). Also note that shipments around December often take longer. AND, note that we can't really tell how long things take to clear customs. This is the piece that's very random.

Part of my point here is to show that it doesn't seem to make a huge time difference if you choose First Class versus Priority. On the other hand, Priority is about $20 more expensive than First Class. You do whatever you want with that info, but the vast majority of our international shipments to the UK are using First Class.