🇺🇸 Hey USA – Tariff News

Updated 26/08/2025

Australia Post has now placed a temporary suspension of postal services to the US

As a result of the recently introduced changes to the import tariff requirements set out in US Executive Order 14324, Australia Post has joined a number of international postal operators to temporarily suspend partial postal services to the United States (US) and Puerto Rico, effective immediately until further notice.

If your parcel was sent prior to 26/08/2025, it will be expected to go through US customs uninterrupted.

As pre orders were expected to ship after 26/08/2025, we have been in contact with the customers individually to organise a solution.

Sav xo 

Previous Update 24/08/2025

Starting August 29th 2025, the U.S. is scrapping the $800 duty-free rule on Aussie parcels. Therefore:

✨ Any orders that land in the States after that date might get hit with extra customs fees.
✨ We have been informed that us sellers (aka Matchy) will need to cover those charges on your behalf.
✨ If that sticks, we’ll need to start collecting those tariff costs at checkout (we don’t pocket a cent - it all goes straight to U.S. Customs/USPS).
✨ How this will be collected and remitted from Australia Post is still unclear at this stage

Why is an update from our courier taking so long? 

Most countries charge the customer for import duties (like Australia does if you order something over $1000 AUD). But USPS doesn’t have the systems to bill you directly… so their “solution” is for the sellers to pay upfront, or parcels risk bouncing back. Fun, right? 🫠
At this stage, Australia Post (our worldwide courier) are brainstorming with a third-party on how they are going to collect and remit this tax. There is no update on how this is going to happen at this time and therefore we have decided to suspend the ability to place orders to the USA while we wait for an update. 

You ordered in the pre-order?

Of course, this news has come about right as we already started the pre-order for our newest prints. To give our U.S. Matchy pops the best chance of smooth shipping (and to save us scary customs bills):

💌 We’ll be prioritising USA orders during this launch. The fabric is due to land at the start of this week and I will be making your orders before any else. 
💌 Pre-Orders placed will be shipping out before the 29th with magic fairy dust to hope it gets there safely as all communications says it will. 

On that note ✨

I know this is confusing, stressful, and absolutely not what anyone ordered. Please know we’re on it, we’re moving fast, and we’ll keep you in the loop every step of the way.

Thanks for being the sweetest, most patient people ever while we ride out this international shipping rollercoaster together. 💖

xo Sav