My local PO once offered to stamp a handwritten list of names and addresses (during the C&S outage), and I did wonder whether that would be as good as a lodgement form (they refused to do it on a lodgement form unless I actually purchased registered), but I suppose that means they would likely be amenable to stamping the packing slip, which may at least help with an appeal at a higher level (except to US and UK, probably).

Sorry about your negs 😞 That's the thing I'm most worried about. Not problems, per se, but that people won't contact me about them if they occur. My Oz buyers are awesome, and I thankfully have really never had any problems that weren't my own fault but able to be sorted very quickly without drama (with the notable exception of one buyer who negged without contact at the end of 2011 for a black skirt being black and not purple). I know there are sure to be awesome OS buyers as well, but standard practices, procedures and expectations are bound to be different, and I have only ever heard about the bad stuff, so I suppose I'm wondering if there's enough 'good stuff' to balance it out.