Hi Linda, I think it is absolute rubbish too! Do you know (probably you do) when you get to the posting section of putting your listing up on Ebay, if you only tick for Royal mail and untick for Evri, that will ensure you only get Royal mail codes/labels. If you tick both, Ebay choose which one for you, when the customer buys, not even the customer choice. As a customer and a seller sometimes in a very rural area, I find other aspects annoying. Evri does not really operate in this area of Scottish highlands, a parcel gets to Inverness depot, then the tracking stops, as it waits for a local agent, often the Amazon man, sometimes a man with a van who works for various couriers part time, to come out to the village. It might take 3 days to get to Inverness, then 10 days wait for someone to pick up parcels and bring them out to villages. Royal mail is daily delivery! I cannot tell from private seller now, which way they are sending something, as with simple delivery, it just says standard delivery or sometimes express delivery. I have to contact the seller to ask which way and if not Royal Mail, can they send it that way please, before I order. Business sellers still list posting options the old way and tell you upfront how they are posting. If I want to buy a dress, for instance, off someone who has it but not worn, for whatever reason, and this is very good ethically, I always have to approach them about postage first. Even Hobbs, who send by Royal mail at Christmas, came in 2 days, have sent my latest parcel via Evri, it has sat with the tracking stuck in Inverness for over a week now, quite usual, waiting for someone to bring it out, when there are enough parcels to go, presumably? I am sure these couriers work fine in a town, but not in rural areas. We also have no Evri collection, so I have to pay to post parcels back to the Evri return address, which is crazy, even with a free return Evri label supplied.
