Thread for sellers' experiences of Simple Delivery and if only their chosen carrier is actually used

[jjambadger27]

Yes, I know there are a lot of Simple Delivery threads but I imagine this one will be helpful for others too.

I'm holding off listing any more items and taking existing ones down tomorrow as there's no way that I want to use Evri. I asked earlier this week in the community chat if it's correct that eBay can override my choice of item carrier even if I've specified that I only want to use Royal Mail.

The response was "That could happen, but only under very specific scenarios. For example, if you disable Royal Mail can keep Evri only, but Evri doesn't deliver to the buyer's location, or doesn't offer the service needed, then it would be sent with Royal Mail."

Quite ambiguous. Whilst I'm left presuming that only Royal Mail will be used, I don't know for sure which isn't good enough. eBay could at least expand on these other scenarios - after all, they are apparently "very specific". eBay also haven't said what Standard Delivery or Express Delivery represents - Evri or Royal Mail, or RM Tracked 48 and 24 if you've chosen Royal Mail? 

It's rubbish that sellers will be guinea pigs in all of this, but with some brave souls using Simple Delivery already for selling, it would be good to know if their delivery company choices were adhered to or not. 

Better putting that here than some of the more all-encompassing long Simple Delivery threads, I reckon. 

[akemp1]

As much as I am opposed to SD on principle I did try both buying and selling a small parcel with it via Evri and it was fine although than my Evri drop-off is a pain to get to, and as always Evri they just dump deliveries outside the front door making no attempt to hide it.

However as I send around 50% via RM large letter, often over 100g, it's going to be uneconomic and inconvenient so I've stopped buying and selling on ebay in protest.