I do not ship to the following locations due to complicated registrations and regulations on sending "packaging" to their country; France, Greece, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania and Spain. Anyone who now orders from there will have their orders cancelled and refunded.

I am so sorry to do this but I do not agree that I should pay your government for you to recycle the packaging I sent something to you in. A big online retailer like amazon where they ship things often in their own boxes instead of together to save boxes? Sure. But this does not take into consideration that I re-use my boxes 90% of the time, as well as paper to fill the boxes with. I am only sending you fresh bubble wrap, and if you're not putting that into recycling if you can't use it again, what is wrong with you?

Some of these countries (France) also expect me to pay for the life cycle of the item, with no consideration for things to be passed down in families as keepsakes or re-used/repurposed/resold in a garage sale, vintage store or as a gift to another person. This is ridiculous.

I may also stop shipment to Germany because of the same issues, I have currently registered with them because it is free and their requirements are low enough to pass onto the customer reasonably. But I may feel differently as proposed changes Jan 2023 come out. We will see.

As of right now Etsy makes it incredibly hard to remove countries from the EU from the shipping list as it lumps the entire union together, so until it makes that easier my listings will still show that they ship to these countries, but I will not ever send anything there with the current rules. I love the environment, but they are punishing the wrong people in their effort to "help you recycle", lining their pockets ahead of you needing to recycle the item, if you even do, and promising for now that they will give you a "rebate" for recycling, when in fact who knows if that will ever happen. It didn't when Canada tried it, you just pay the government another tax you never see back. And I'm already paying here, not paying for you too. <3