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If you’re planning to gift anybody some colourful VelvetVolcano goodies for a birthday, Christmas etc this year (or if you’re heavily hinting to a loved one for something to get you 😄) please make sure you order as far in advance as possible. You may have already heard, but there are a lot of Royal Mail strikes happening here in the UK over the next month or so, which will be having an effect on both national and international mail. The run up to Christmas is always a busy time for both us small businesses and for the postal service and...

From July 1st VAT rules are changing and when you purchase from the UK you will now have to pay VAT on purchases of goods with a value below 22 EUR, not just above, which is what the rule was previously.   You may have seen that many small UK businesses are now (either temporarily or permanently) stopping selling to the EU at the moment and that is because, although I have simplified it above, this change is very confusing and complicated. From my understanding however, the main issue is that to continue selling to countries within the EU, us UK...

Christmas time is fast approaching and it's time to start thinking about the lucky people you're gifting VelvetVolcano goodies to this year to make sure their colourful, cute and creepy gifts are under their tree just in time!  Last ‘Made to Order’ Order Dates for Christmas DeliveryAustralia & New Zealand - 13th NovemberAfrica, Asia, Caribbean, Central and South America, Far and Middle East - 18th NovemberCanada, Cyprus and Malta - 19th NovemberGreece, Eastern Europe (except Czech Republic, Poland & Slovakia) and Turkey - 20th NovemberCzech Republic, Finland, Italy, Poland, Sweden, USA - 21st NovemberAustria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,...