Month: August 2025

[UPDATED] Revised prices to USA to include import duty

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UPDATED 10/9/25

We have had to suspend orders of our merchandise to the USA (postage option W3). As Royal Mail get to grips with the realities of posting items to the USA, they are having to frequently change the processes and prices they are charging. Therefore, until the matter settles down, we are suspended all postage option W3 orders.

Membership renewals are NOT AFFECTED, as we believe the situation will have stabilised by the time of our winter mailing.

World 3 price option now live for members in the USA

On 30th July 2025, the United States government announced an Executive Order which outlined significant changes to the customs requirements and processes for goods being imported into the USA from 29th August 2025. You can read more here.

A key element is the removal of duty-free for low value items. Previously, items valued at less than $800 could enter the USA without having to pay customs duties. Now, these import tariffs (duties) must be paid on top of the postage you already pay.

We had already planned to introduce a ‘World 3’ price structure for members in the USA from our winter mailing, but have no option than to bring this forward, to take into account this unforeseen new duty. With over 400 items in our online catalogue, it will take a little time for us to introduce World 3 to all products, so please bear with us.

With immediate effect, members in the USA must choose the W3 (World 3) option (where available) when ordering from us.

44 FAB Years – are you a winner?

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Are you a winner in our 44 FAB Years celebrations?

Thanks to everyone who took part in our 44 FAB Years celebrations of the world’s only Official Gerry And Sylvia Anderson Appreciation Society! From 1st to 20th August we ran a series of daily auctions and/or raffles to raise funds for charity. Plus, everyone who had bid in one of the auction and/or bought a raffle ticket was entered into a lucky dip draw for one of ten 1992 Fanderson Junior birthday cards.

Are you one of our winners?

Auctions

  • Barry Gray mini album proof – Michael Vincent
  • Captain Scarlet art prints – Keith Jones and Eleftherios Sarris
  • Century 21 Diary – Eleftherios Sarris
  • Countdown To Disaster convention brochure – Lyndsay Jones
  • Danger Zone Script Book – Keith Campbell
  • Design File 2 – Keith Campbell
  • Space Precinct stationery – Stephen Bushell
  • The Investigator DVD – Will Squires
  • Thunderbirds stationery – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 6 – Will Squires
  • FAB 7 – Paul Spearman
  • FAB 8 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 9 – Will Squires
  • FAB 10 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 11 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 12 – Ian Haworth
  • FAB 13 – Paul Spearman
  • FAB 15 – Paul Meads
  • FAB 16 – Ian Burgess
  • FAB 18 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 19 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 20 – Sam Townsend
  • FAB 21 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 23 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 24 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 27 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 29 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 31 – Mark Wrighton
  • FAB 33 – Lyndsay Jones

Raffles

  • Captain Scarlet And The Power Of The Mysterons mini-album CD – Mark Wrighton
  • Captain Scarlet art prints (unsigned) – Mark Wrighton
  • FAB Yearbook #1 – Mark Wrighton
  • Stingray colouring book – Keith Jones
  • UFO Script Book – Mark Wrighton

Our Lucky Dip winners of a Fanderson Junior birthday card are: Eleftherios Sarris, Ian Haworth, Keith Campbell, Lyndsay Jones, Mark Wrighton, Paul Meads, Paul Spearman, Sam Townsend, Stephen Bushell and Will Squires.

We’ll be in touch with all our winners in next few days to arrange payment, then the prizes/auction lots will be mailed as soon as possible.

Thanks to Najmie Allette, Stephen Brown, Catherine Ford, Sally Ground, Maggy Harris, Simon Harris, Lynn Simpson and Tom Wingate for their generous donations. If you have something that you’d like to donate for our future fundraising efforts, please get in touch at fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com with details.

Fanderson members have an amazing track record for raising money for good causes. You’ve dug deep and over £60,000 has been donated to a variety of good causes, including Actors’ Benevolent Fund, Alzheimers Society, Baby Lifeline, Children In Need, Diabetes UK, The Film And TV Charity, Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs For Deaf People, Macmillan Cancer Support, Orchid, The Silver Line, Terrence Higgins Trust, Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal and many more.

We’ll be finalizing the amount we’ll be donating to Demelza at the end of November. In the meantime, you can add to the total by buying one of our charity donation items.

Finally, there’s still time to nominate a charity that you’d like us to support in 2025/6.