🇪🇺 Status on EU Shipments

As the majority of those in the EU has undoubtedly heard of by now, PPWR and ESR regulations have officially come into effect on August 12th with an online feedback form on the European Commission website having gathered over 7,000 feedback forms plus 80,000+ signatures via a Change.org petition.

In short, this put a lot of uncertainties about shipping within the EU (even as an EU resident myself) due to packaging waste laws where they want businesses to register in each EU country and pay a fee upfront with some countries requiring a representative as well, which can easily cost us hundreds if not thousands of euros just to be able to ship there without getting in legal trouble.

The good news is that the EC has heard our voices and are said to talk about this in October, so for now I'll hold off on shipping out EU pledges until there's more certainty surrounding this topic since businesses like myself could face massive fines if we do not comply with these laws. While there's talk of businesses only receiving warnings initially, the fact that the warnings could still be issued at this moment is scary, so for now I'll play on the safe side much to my enormous frustration. I'm really sorry about this.

🐏 Status on Funfetti sheep remakes

As mentioned in a previous update, the Funfetti remakes have been stuck at customs and I've been in a surprisingly long battle with FedEx about this. I honestly wonder if the PPWR/ESR regulations have had an effect on this but they could not answer me on this.

FedEx promised to get back to me ASAP and my manufacturer is also helping me with this matter as much as they can. I've called multiple times, opened several livechats, emailed back and forth with proof that the package has pre-paid customs and import fees but for some reason there's an unknown obstacle. What worries me is that it'll get sent back to my manufacturer and it'll get more complicated from there.

I'm frankly not sure what's going on with FedEx lately. I also received a reminder letter that I haven't paid for a shipment in December(?), which ended up being completely false and they apologized for their mistake. 🥲

In the meantime, if your pledge includes Funfetti and you're fine with receiving the cooler-toned variant (which was a factory mistake which they acknowledged, hence the remakes) please send me an email to [email protected]. That way I can note it down and send your pledge on the way as soon as I can.

You can see the color differences below:

🇺🇸  USA Reminder: How can I get my rewards earlier? Can I opt to pay for the tariffs so I can receive my rewards sooner?

Absolutely! Since tariff costs have increased since July 24th, it's been a massive dent in my fulfillment plans since I'll be paying for these costs out of pocket  on top of also compensating for the upgraded shipping costs that is mandatory in order to be able to ship out the pledges (for more information, please see this update).

This means that shipping will take much longer than anticipated for USA backers, so unless you're fine with covering these extra expenses so you can get your rewards sooner, unfortunately I'm going to have to ask you to wait a bit longer since I cannot guarantee when I'll be able to ship them out. 🥲

If you don't mind covering the tariff costs or have questions, send me an email to [email protected] and I'll send a screenshot with the exact amount that needs to be paid. We can discuss it further from there.