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Age verified delivery what postal service

myvintagehomestore — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:09:27 GMT

I usually use Royal Mail Tracked 48 for all deliveries but the price of the age verified service for Small Parcel is practically double! £6.27 instead of £3.39. I guess that means it's uneconomic to sell cutlery any more. I have looked at other couriers' websites - Evri and Yodel - and they say knives are prohibited anyway. Yet I see some sellers are still using a standard Evri service. I couldn't find any age verified services on Evri or Yodel's websites.

What are other sellers doing? What postal service are you using or are you just giving up on restricted items?

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fribblecollectables — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:50:10 GMT

I will probably give up on low value restricted items.

Its fine for cutlery sets of about £50 - £60 or more, but I will pass the cost of delivery on to the buyer.

I had my first two items removed yesterday, a couple of letter openers.

They were thin so were being posted Large Letter rate. No point relisting with age verification postage, which starts at £6.27 upwards, and needing the buyer to be in when the postman arrives, standing at the doorway with a passport or driving licence to prove their age for a letter opener, or indeed a butter spreader.

Long toasting forks with sharp, pointy tines are fine to send without age verification. In a duel, I choose one of them over a butter spreader any day.

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fribblecollectables — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:17:02 GMT

When I received the message to say my letter oponers were being removed, part of the message said "This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence. This came to our attention through automated detection. "

This could be worrying. Would eBay just blast through listings removing all items with the word knife or knives in the title?

It wouldn't surprise me.

So what will happen to something I have just listed, a small empty vintage cutlery box made just for storing knives, containing no knives?

Or yesterdays listing for knife rests?

What happens to pallete knife paintings, knife heeled womens shoes (for those that sell them)?

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horace_batchelor — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:28:12 GMT

I've had several completely harmless vintage promotional plastic / bakelite letter openers flagged up and removed. You might be able to give someone a nasty rub, but you'd be a long time trying to inflict any serious injury with any of them.

I've gone to the "Revise" option to change the postage to "Age Verified Delivery", but can't find any such options - only the same regular choices that were available when I originally listed. I'm stumped now. Do I have to re-list each one from scratch?

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wyntersemporium — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:33:47 GMT

Got one for keyring age verification can only sell to over 19’s.

they won’t let me relist it. Never got an age verification on any other site only on here. Oh well adding more to another site

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wyntersemporium — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:35:09 GMT

No idea although I put one item which had the age verification with was tracked 48 I think

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cjfrench — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:01:20 GMT

I had a wooden letter opener, so i just called it an opener or page turner and the item was listed fine ..

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thus6436 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 22:16:53 GMT

Good question!

Experienced a similar problem for a herb cutter. Thank God I removed the original courier listed, (Yodel) as I randomly checked their website one day and noticed its forbidden to post certain items, included bladed ones!

Only problem was finding an alternative via ebay options provided, none of them matched weight, compensation or tracking options and prices were ridiculous, starting from £6.49-£13! Almost the cost of the item itself. Discovered royal mail 48 but again not sure about item weight restrictions or parcel dimensions!

It's also disappointing that items weighing more than 2kg but less than 5kg endure the same postal charges as a standard 5kg parcel! Something needs to be done with this! Royal mail are one of the worst couriers in my experience!

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phillywiggins — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:18:47 GMT

I have just had all my craft scissors removed for being a bladed article!

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peacocksrestoration — Sat, 03 May 2025 11:55:32 GMT

Anyone find any cheapish options yet? I got many listings in limbo and no solution yet... Surely eBay's age verification is enough?! And in the mean time it makes no difference to the knife problem at all. 😞

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roygrbs — Sun, 04 May 2025 08:26:30 GMT

I've just sold a food processor grating and slicing attachment and went for RM as the cheapest age verified option in listing but when trying to get postage via ebay its only allowing UPS at over £10 and only charged £6 odd (RM price). Original item is only £8 and the slicing bit is not a blade one just the one you get on average hand grater tool. Complete joke as they pulled listing until I added age verification.

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daveparnell — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:06:53 GMT

I just sold a chainsaw on ebay using the Royal Mail age verification service option, only to find that the package is too big for them! No other courier will take it, and it's pretty difficult to disguise, so had to cancel the order.

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warmyn-81 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 05:00:04 GMT

I've just sold some butter knives. When I listed them RM tracked 48 with age verification was available but now its only showing UPS at £10.58....

Why does it not give me the RM service?

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theelench — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:37:43 GMT

@fribblecollectables wrote:
When I received the message to say my letter oponers were being removed, part of the message said "This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence. This came to our attention through automated detection. "

This could be worrying. Would eBay just blast through listings removing all items with the word knife or knives in the title?
It wouldn't surprise me.

What is worrying is how far this sort of A.I idiocy will go. I've bought and sold inter-war glass on ebay with no trouble -- so far. But the other platform I use up-loads my ads. to Google Shopping / Images. They must have some policy about not advertising fire-arms. So their A.I will not allow any ads. with gun-makers names to be shown.

Today on ebay there are 1200+ items of "Walther and Sohne" glassware for sale, you will have great difficulty finding them on GS / Images and I expect it to get worse as I can still find a few items with W&S somewhere in the title. But search for "Walther & Sohne glass" and it will tell me "There are no matches". Will it start deleting listings including the words such as "Enfield" or "Martini" and many others at some point?

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thus6436 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:48:19 GMT

Which site do you use? Ebay selling is dead at present!

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wyntersemporium — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:53:32 GMT

Can’t say on here as last time was banned for a month depends on what you’re selling

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birdyjude — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:18:42 GMT

Did you manage to sort this out? I sold a pair of dressmaking scissors and the same happened to me. The first time I thought it was because they lived in Scotland (the buyer chose to cancel the sale), but after re-listing and selling again I'm coming up against the same problem!

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billben2014 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:13:58 GMT

Because it wants you to use Ebays preffered couriers...so that Ebay can get their cut !!!

Ignore the postage. Post using RM, add a tracking number to item waiting, and mark as despatched

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shlingslong — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:52:18 GMT

I have a high end cutlery set worth around £300. What postage would people recommend for an age check service and compensation level to match this price? TIA

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123norbury — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:10:45 GMT

Ebay require a postage price next to the age verification service that you choose before they will allow your item to be listed. I visited the click & drop all the comparison sites yet none of them can just give me a straightforward price unless I give them a name and address which I do not have until the item is sold.

In the end I just made a price up, which is annoying because if the item sells and I enter the buyers details and the price is ridiculous I will have to cancel the order and it all becomes groundhog day. Sad for the seller and sad for the buyer.