Freight 2 Post vs. Commercial Clearance

Freight 2 Post

Commercial Clearance

Overview

Shipment arrives in the UK as Freight but RM collect these items from the airline handler before converting them from Freight into Post for the purpose of customs clearance. Once converted / recognised as Postal, RM presents items to customs as postal items before injecting them into the UK network.

Customers prepare commercial customs data/paperwork to their independent customs brokers specification. This has no implication on RM. Items will be prepared by the shipping customer as if they were domestic using domestic labels and providing domestic spec data. The key difference to domestic is that RM have different product codes to domestic customers.

Sender’s Address

Based in another country

UK based

Return Address

Set to default on our system to Royal Mail Heathrow Distribution Centre

UK based, depending on the Sender’s Address sent in the createShipmentRequest or set to default on our system

Requirements

International shipments requirements

Domestic shipments requirements

Customs Documentation

Required

Not required

Manifest – Royal Mail Sales Order Summary

Printing not required, as there is no one to hand the paperwork over to and the customers provide the pre-alert data to HWDC which acts as a replacement of the manifest paperwork

Printed version to be handed over to the driver at the point of parcel collection

Royal Mail Sign Off

Required – CDS checks and physical labels

Required – physical labels only