Like all businesses we have faced startling increases in costs of materials and services. Despite doing our best to avoid passing these on to customers, we’ve reached a point where we reluctantly have to increase our charges for postage and packaging as well as adjusting our minimum order value to EU countries.

Postage and packing: New rates will apply from this coming weekend. Some postage rates have gone up, plus the cost of packaging materials has risen dramatically over the last two years. We used to pay 27p for a specialist comic mailer to fit a US comic — we now have to pay £1.74!
As examples, the minimum postage and packing charge for a single US comic of up to £20 value will now be £4; for a standard size UK comic of up to £20 value, it will now be £5.
We only seek to cover our costs on postage and packing, and keep our comic prices as low as possible while continuing to make sure that all our packages are sufficiently protected against damage in transit.

Posting to the EU: As the effects of Brexit roll remorselessly onwards, we now find that we have to complete even more onerous paperwork in order to send a package to an EU country. We are in effect now losing money on smaller orders to the EU, and with great reluctance, we must now increase our minimum order level for postage to the EU to £100. We’re very sorry to all our friends and customers in the EU, and regret having to take this unwanted step.
So, to summarise, our minimum order values (excluding postage) are now for postage destinations:
In the UK: £10
In the EU: £100
Rest Of The World £25