Another Simple Delivery question

SidJ

My items are usually post-free so I print and pay for the label and stick it to the parcel. What happens if I just post it from a normal postbox? To my mind this is no different to sticking stamps on a parcel and using a postbox. It wouldn't be tracked but most items I sold prior to SD went untracked. It's rarely been an issue. Maybe I'm missing something but in terms of delivery, feedback and payment what are the downsides? Anything valuable would be tracked as before. Thank you

ButterCheese

1. You wouldn't have a receipt from the post office to prove you posted the item.  If it got lost then it would be harder to prove when you are making your claim for lost parcels.  Secondly if you have mi-calculated the postal charge then the receiver would have to pay the difference before they could collect the parcel. 

mrcol1000

I regularly buy postage online or use simple delivery and post in a post box. If its tracked then it won't track till it gets to a sorting office. As above you aren't covered if its not delivered. I even had one that was tracked to the customers local sorting office and was lost. Royal Mail refused the claim because I had no proof it was posted despite it being scanned at various places in their network. 
I would check your local Collect Plus collection point like a newsagent. Most of them take post now and give you a printed receipt as proof of postage. 

soolin

SidJ said:

My items are usually post-free so I print and pay for the label and stick it to the parcel. What happens if I just post it from a normal postbox? To my mind this is no different to sticking stamps on a parcel and using a postbox. It wouldn't be tracked but most items I sold prior to SD went untracked. It's rarely been an issue. Maybe I'm missing something but in terms of delivery, feedback and payment what are the downsides? Anything valuable would be tracked as before. Thank you

Are your items exempt from Dimple delivery? if so then you can continue to do whatever you’ve done in the past. If you use eBay labels then all items apart from standard letters have delivery confirmation, parcels usually show delivery, large letters not quite as good, perhaps around 85-90% track to show delivery. If something is lost then without POP you wouldn’t be able to reclaim your loss from Rm. Realistically though very few packages actually go missing. 

If the item is simple delivery then eBay will send you a pre paid label which you will be charged for and which is properly tracked. As long as it is scanned when Rm get it after collection you are fully covered whether it shows delivered or not. 

I find most of my SD items go via Evri so if you can’t use Evri then remember to remove the option from your SD options. Personally I leave it enabled as it a very reasonably priced option and I’ve sold absolutely loads of parcel size things that I’d had listed for ages previously. 

SidJ

Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated