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Wonder if we have it all wrong. If we paid for shipping on receipt there would be motivation to deliver.

In the UK we can get our money back if the goods don't make it into your hands. It's up to the seller / courier to prove otherwise although it's usually a battle arguing with them.

Royal Mail delivered a £560 multimeter to the wrong address and to a signature which wasn't mine. Never saw it again. That took a nightmare battle from hell to get sorted.

This is the same in every single country. However, if the mail say it was delivered then what do you do? You lose.

I actually found that in the UK at least, you get on twitter and call them thieving bastards repetitively until they are fed up with you and just give you the money to shut up :)

Royal Mail is just terrible at doing anything it seems.

Some of the vendors allow you to select the delivery company. I like this.

It's pretty hard to get back to a seller and try to explain him the delivery company he is using is potentially scamming, especially as it only affects me (the receiver), not the shipper.

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