Components p+p

Been enjoying free p+p with RS Components for a good while now on small orders.
Sadly its come to end now with a £3.95 charge on sub £30 orders.
And I am a trade account holder.

Farnell are worse at £4.99 for sub £40 orders.

CPC are best with free £17.50+ orders.
Been using CPC a few times now as they tend to be cheaper than RS.
4700uf 35v cap £2 at RS, 60p at CPC.
USB B pcb socket £1.30 at RS, £0.25p at CPC.
CPC also do smaller quantities than RS.
I hate buying 10 off when I need just one.

At least comes within a day or two these days.
In the 1980's I had to fill in an order form and post it to Maplin.
Then get the order back about a week later, ta least what they had in stock.
 
Just had a thought and need to check on my next order. With the UK sales/vat is paid on shipping so if it’s free shipping - is that still added to the overall vat?
Maybe they pay shipping but not the VAT of shipping?
 
You are paying VAT on parts , shipping is free, at least for Mouser UK-UK, sender-receiver.

When ordered and payed last night parts were 40,xx , shipping free, at the last check point they count VAT into the price and then payout via PayPal.

I just had a breef look at the Invoice, total was 46,xx ( 46,50 think ) and this 6 Pounds was declared as VAT.