2025 holiday peak fulfilment fee in the United Kingdom, effective from October 15, 2025
As we look ahead to the busy festive shopping season, we’re preparing for greater utilisation of our Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) network, and increased fulfilment and transportation operating costs across the supply chain.
Similar to major carriers, we’ll introduce a holiday peak fulfilment fee to cover increased seasonal costs.
The holiday peak fulfilment fee will apply to selected FBA orders delivered to buyers in the United Kingdom between October 15, 2025, and January 14, 2026. The fee will apply to small and standard parcels, as well as large and extra-large envelopes, fulfilled via local FBA and Remote fulfilment from the EU to the UK. The average fee will be £0.10 per parcel item and £0.05 per large or extra-large envelope item.
The holiday peak fulfilment fee won’t apply to oversize or Low-Price FBA items.
Our selling partners are incredibly important to us and this is not a decision that we’ve made lightly. The entire industry experiences increased operational costs over the festive season, and this change enables us to maintain delivery speed, expand fulfilment capacity and support customer demand during this busy period.
The holiday peak fulfilment will also apply to selected FBA orders delivered to buyers in Germany. For more information, and to review detailed fee rates, go to 2025 holiday peak fulfilment fee.
Effective from October 1, 2025, you can also preview holiday peak fulfilment fees in the Revenue Calculator and the FBA fee preview report.
2025 holiday peak fulfilment fee in the United Kingdom, effective from October 15, 2025
As we look ahead to the busy festive shopping season, we’re preparing for greater utilisation of our Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) network, and increased fulfilment and transportation operating costs across the supply chain.
Similar to major carriers, we’ll introduce a holiday peak fulfilment fee to cover increased seasonal costs.
The holiday peak fulfilment fee will apply to selected FBA orders delivered to buyers in the United Kingdom between October 15, 2025, and January 14, 2026. The fee will apply to small and standard parcels, as well as large and extra-large envelopes, fulfilled via local FBA and Remote fulfilment from the EU to the UK. The average fee will be £0.10 per parcel item and £0.05 per large or extra-large envelope item.
The holiday peak fulfilment fee won’t apply to oversize or Low-Price FBA items.
Our selling partners are incredibly important to us and this is not a decision that we’ve made lightly. The entire industry experiences increased operational costs over the festive season, and this change enables us to maintain delivery speed, expand fulfilment capacity and support customer demand during this busy period.
The holiday peak fulfilment will also apply to selected FBA orders delivered to buyers in Germany. For more information, and to review detailed fee rates, go to 2025 holiday peak fulfilment fee.
Effective from October 1, 2025, you can also preview holiday peak fulfilment fees in the Revenue Calculator and the FBA fee preview report.
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Seller_UImKvM8RwScxb
Absolute jokers, more ways to cream the profit off sellers.
"Similar to major carriers" - funny, because none of the carriers I use have an increased fee.
Seller_fMsCVAHNu4txH
...e.g. Royal Mail?
The difference is, Royal Mail introduced these surcharges years ago. And, more importantly, they don't already have our items.
If the seller thought the Royal Mail fee was unreasonable, they could choose to use a different carrier 'before' shipping any further items.
Making an informed choice.
If Amazon are introducing these fees because they're using Royal Mail, then they already knew about these surcharges years ago, so could've given plenty of notice.
So with 6 weeks notice, there's a new fee being added....
Option A:
Don't accept the new fee, and withdraw your stock from FBA
Pay more in return fees on each item
Option B:
Increase prices to cover the new fee
10p Increase + 2p extra VAT, Amazon then take their usual cut of the increase too, so you need to increase by 15p+ (at least)
Sales decrease due to the invisible-buy-box-magic not liking the increased price
Or, the bots kick in and restrict the listing for 'Uncompetitive Price' anyway
Reduced sales, increased storage fees, lower turnover, worse metrics = lower account health
Option C:
Nod, Smile, and hand over more of your income.
Businesses have to plan stock levels months, or entire seasons in advance.
Sellers have already shipped stock they intend to sell during that period.
6 months notice would've been short, 6 Weeks notice is ridiculous.
Seller_5VsVlvdiDnITx
Conveniently left out from this announcement is the confirmation that FBA storage fees will increase 80% in for peak season this year (£0.76 to £1.37 per cubic feet)
The FBA fee increases are very reasonable in comparison. The storage fee increase is nothing but utter greed.
Seller_tQCfsb3zoC4AP
that is what abusive partners say just after they have beaten the life out of their other half {you forced me to behave in this way I really did not want to do that}
Seller_4mvpF14wacAyg
So you reduce the FBA fees earlier in the year, then claw them all back in Q4 via this fee and the extortionate storage fees.
Sound, thanks.
Seller_UMm9mWKrdLncg
post.a amazon and eu are anti business when we all leave, you will want us back but once we are gone we will not come back. Amazon is over 50% 3rd party this will destroy amazon
