Hi there -

Today we have our first size-impressive article: Bundle Box is featured in the Metro!

This morning I had the amazing experience that the guy next to me in the train was reading the article, for 7 long minutes. That was awesome. I couldn’t stop myself asking him what he thought of it. He said: “What a great service, many times I was left hanging at the checkout of a US website because they didn’t ship to the UK. I am getting this today.”

Wow. What a great start of the day!

Happy Bundling

Andre

We are getting lots of request from Bundle Box users about importing food items from the USA to UK. We understand, as there is plenty of great food in the USA.

Also, it is notoriously hard to ship food items from the USA, as no courier company will touch it. Here Bundle Box will help: we will offer a food import service soon. To help us set up this service for you, please let us know what food items you all would like to import from the USA. Just tweet us @bundlebox or send an email to info@bundlebox.com

Happy Bundling!

Andre

Already by shipping your items in one consolidated shipment with Bundle Box from the USA to the UK, you are reducing the CO² emitted by your import activity from the USA.

We feel that is not enough. Now with Bundle Box you can carbon offset the CO² that is emitted during the transport of your shipment by road and air. Bundle Box not only enables you to offset your shipment, but will actually pay for 50% of the cost. Actions speaks louder than words! If you select to carbon offset your shipment, Bundle Box will pay for 50% of the costs to offset your shipment.

Bundle Box is committed to minimizing its impact on the environment. And we are really pleased that our customers are too. Since the launch of the carbon offset, 89% of our shipments have been carbon offset, a fantastic uptake!

How does it work? Together with Benjamin Kott (during daytime Green Business Operations Manager at Google EMEA), Bundle Box has developed a carbon calculator to estimate the amount of CO² that is emitted during the transport of your shipment. Once we have calculated the amount of CO² emitted by your shipment, we use a typical market rate of £15.00 per 1000 kg CO² to estimate the costs of offsetting. Each time we have gathered 100 tons in CO² offset, we offset these through purchasing credits in one of the projects of Carbon Footprint. Carbon Footprint provides UK government assured offsetting. This means that you can rest assured that your carbon offset is of good quality and that the credits we purchase comply with the Kyoto Protocol and have been checked by the United Nations.

Thanks Ben for your help with making this happen.

Happy bundling

Andre

Hi All -

We are very excited to announce that we signed an advertising agreement with American Express to promote their FX International Payments solution to the users of the Duty Calculator.

The FX International Payments Solution from American Express is quite a compelling one, especially at the rate of £1 per transaction! The FX International Payments solution is completely accessible online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, completely secure through advanced encryption, gives access to highly competitive rates, has no set up costs or maintenance fees and you’ll have a dedicated account manager. All at £1 per transation. Wow!

You can check this offer out for yourself here.

Happy Bundling

Andre

Hi all -

Very good news: Bundle Box is website of the day at Pocket-lint!

It is our first review and we are happy it is a very positive one! here is the article.

Happy bundling

Andre

Hi All -

We are very excited to announce that we signed an agreement with logistics provider Seko Synergy to provide great international shipping services and rates to our users of the Duty Calculator.

Many of the calculations on the Duty Calculator are of commercial nature and involve sizable imports with significant shipping costs. Now we give our Duty Calculator users the opportunity to obtain savings on their international shipping costs through our partnership with Seko Synergy. Starting with imports from China and Hong Kong, the Duty Calculator users will be able to get an instantaneous quote from Seko Synergy, and achieve significant savings on the international shipping costs whilst getting an optimal service.

Seko Synergy, a fast track 100 UK company, are the industry’s leading provider of customer focused supply chain management solutions, offering Worldwide Contract Logistics, Ocean Freight Forwarding,  Global Airfreight Forwarding, Fashion Logistics Services, Cargo Management Services and Web Fulfillment Services.

The Seko Synergy logo already popped up on the bottom bar on the Duty Calculator, and the quotation system will follow soon.

Happy bundling

Andre

Hi All -

We are very happy to announce that the first Bundle Box shipment has reached its destination and most importantly, we have a very happy Bundleer!

Attached the photo that captures this exciting moment in the history of Bundle Box!

Happy bundling

Andre

Hi All -

Today we passed the landmark of 10,000 registered users for the Duty Calculator! In total our users have done 15,776 calculations since the launch in late April. One of the most popular items, to our surprise, was the UGG boot.

So why are people so crazy about importing UGG boots? Simple. In the USA they retail at the official UGG online store for $180 (approx. £110), in the UK they retail for £195 including shipping and in Australia they retail for £79 including free world wide shipping! Same boots, very different prices.

Now, if you import your UGGs from Australia, you would incur no duty as the value of the boots is less than £150 (if the value would be over £150, the duty rate on UGGs would be 17%), however, you will have to fork over £11.85 for VAT. This means you can have the boots at your doorstep for a cool £90.85, a saving of more than £100!

Nice one!

Happy bundling

Andre

PS The official customs code for UGGs is 6405 9010 00. Have a look at the TARIC site and the classifying description and you understand why the Duty Calculator makes your life so easy!

Hi All -

Life at the UK Googleplex in London just got a little better. Google UK added Bundle Box to their employee benefits program. Now every UK Googler can get those great deals from the USA and ship them at competitive rates to the UK.

Googlers in other offices around the world, don’t despair, you will have access to your Bundle Box soon!

Any other companies interested in making life for their employees a bit better with a Bundle Box, just give me a tweet @andreschmidt!

Happy bundling

Andre

Hi all -

Amidst all the flurry of the Bundle Box launch, Pesh finally managed to upload our iPhone app for the Duty Calculator. We followed each required step with great care, as outlined in Apple’s 107-page PDF on submitting your app to the apps store. Now the agonizing wait has begun. Some say it can take weeks, some say it can take months… We can only hope it will be faster than that!

Nice one Pesh!

Happy bundling

Andre