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@5kazam wrote:

It may sound like nit picking - and certainly not intended to be - with the wording in the new rules, lodgement at a PO will NOT be considered to be delivered to the buyer's address.  And those five are the operative words. 

 

Hopefully, I am very wrong, but I wouldn't want to see any of you get caught because you could not prove the item you sent was DELIVERED (RECEIVED) at the buyer's address.  

 

All the photos of envelopes, stamping of this, that and whatever, are only proof that you went to the PO and paid for the postage to send the item/envelope.  

 

From there it is out of your hands.  You have no knowledge of what happens to it after you walk out of the PO, and are therefore unable to state/prove categorically that the item/envelope was received by the buyer.

 

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Unless we stand outside the buyer's letterbox, how ever will we prove the purchase was delivered to the buyer's address? Unless of course someone pays for SOD.

And if the cost of SOD is added to the selling/postage price, I can see sales plummeting further, simply because if the majority of your sales are under $20 (including postage - as mine are) then adding a further $3 or whatever SOD costs these days will mean not only is it more expensive for the buyer (if we get them to pay for the SOD, which they will hate doing, not only because of the extra expense but also the hassle of having to be home when the parcel arrives or else having to make a special trip to the PO), but also more expensive for the seller, since ebay will no doubt demand their 9.9% fee on that SOD - aarrggghhh I could go on, but it's all too hard.