Belize Postal Service Resumes U.S. Shipments After Suspension

After a four-month suspension, the Belize Postal Service will officially resumed outbound shipments to the United States on January 7th. The halt, which began in August, followed the U.S. Government’s elimination of the long-standing duty-free threshold for international packages. With all shipments now subject to customs duties and taxes, BPS has adopted the Universal Postal Union’s Delivered Duty Paid Global Solution to ensure compliance and provide Belizeans with faster, more transparent, and reliable access to U.S. markets. We spoke with Postmaster General, Doctor Marsha Price for more information.

 

On the Phone: Dr. Marsha Price, Postmaster General, Belize Postal Services

“We had to ensure that ensure that we are now collecting duties from the lease before we wrote any items to the United States. So through the Universal Postal Union, they have recently launched a global solution called, delivered due to paid. And this system allows us now to comply with that US regulation to collect duties before items are routed through a third party person for them to collect the funds on the on behalf of the United States Customs Border Protection. Using the global solutions by the Universal Postal Union, DDP, customers can now log our, we have a on our website, the post service customer ation system, whereby now they can go on the website and take and see what type of items they’re sending and to see what are their custom duties and other fees before coming into the post office and just see our freight charges. So you can now at least view that before. Start that process before coming into our post office. So that will be the new process going forward. But we will also have customers that don’t have access to maybe the internet. So we’ll assist them there at our post office when they come in.”