Oh dear - yes this was highlighted as on the way a few moths ago, but again it feels like eBay fiddling around with something that was working well to the dis-benefit of Private sellers? I sell buy and sell a lot of vintage cigarette lighters (as a collector) and you simply should post these used items by Royal Mail: The reason is they send a lot of stuff by air and the chance of traces of lighter fluid or petrol traces in the lighter contravenes air safety regs; so used lighters are prohibited items under Royal Mail. The official Zippo website for instance recommends against using Royal Mail for sending repairs in, because they too have had too many cases of items being detroyed. So I only send lighters by EVRI who are fine because they send by road transport only.

I know some people hate EVRI and have had problems but I've had very few issues and full compo on a couple of lost parcels: those losses were years ago anyway and not had recent problems with my deliveries. 

It appears that I can't opt out of Royal Mall under the incoming simple delivery mandate so it will completely compromise my sales. It looks like stop selling or become a Business seller (where it appears you can still  self selected posting options?)