Age verified delivery what postal service

[myvintagehomestore]

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?

[fribblecollectables]

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.

[fribblecollectables]

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)?

[horace_batchelor]

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?

[wyntersemporium]

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 

[wyntersemporium]

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

[cjfrench]

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

[thus6436]

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!