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Postal Issues

Understanding Postal Issues Postal Issues seem to be a daily occurrence. I’m constantly being contacted about delivery UK second class deliveries. Most people are chilled and realise that Royal Mail second class is a slow un-tracked service. Still, a couple of people recently thought the order was delayed because I hadn’t bothered to send it.

New look

Time for a new look! We’ve freshened up the website design. The earlier design was getting a little tired, and we thought you would like a new look. Klarna has been removed from the payment options. There is an issue with the Klarna repayment banner overprinting the description. We are looking for a fix to

Merry Christmas!

We’ve posted our last order before Christmas ’25. The tools have been put away, for a couple of days. The website is open for business but all orders will be processed on Monday 29th December 2025. Janey and I are awaiting the arrival of our family for Christmas. I hope you have a lovely Christmas

Shipping to the USA

The US customs regime has changed. As a result, the low value duty free allowance on orders entering the United States was deleted. As of today, 1st September 2024, we will send all our orders via Royal Mail. The orders will be tracked. The duty will be paid in advance. All our items are made

Get Ready for XL 77mm (3 inch) Button Badges on 1st July

Here’s some news, we’ve just taken delivery of some new dies for our badge making hand press. As of 1st July, we will be offering an XL 77mm (3 inch) button badge. This means we will be offering four sizes for most of our badges: Small 25mm (1 inch), Medium 38mm (1.5 inch), Large 58mm

Customs Charges

Customers are cordially reminded that they are responsible for all taxes and customs duties. We says this as we had a complaint today that a buyer in France had received a VAT and Duties demand for an order that was in excess of the value of the items order. Apparently, although she was aware that

Re-Building

We’re currently rebuilding the site’s store. We’ve been using Etsy for the ecommerce side of the site for some time now just because it saved us time. Given the time that we now have on our hands following scaling back other business activities we decide to move our ecommerce back ‘in-house’, it should take us

Postage changes

With more delays being notified with first class post we are now sending mainland UK excluding highlands and islands orders via EVRI two to three day. Highland and islands orders will go Tracked 48 Royal Mail.