More so as the onus and legal aspect (data protection) means that the receiver has no way of disputing this with Royal Mail, only the sender does. So if the se

More so as the onus and legal aspect (data protection) means that the receiver has no way of disputing this with Royal Mail, only the sender does. So if the sender pays for the basic service, this can happen, if they paid a little bit more for the tracking service, thats different. Case is, you can send a letter - no way of tracking that, but if you send it recorded delivery, that's tracked. So issue here is not the Royal Mail, more case of Ebay etc allowing people to send things using the cheapest untrackable way and allowing such abuse to transpire. But then every system is abusable - you can send a recorded delivery item to a person, log into tracking and see a copy of that person's signature which you could then abuse in nefarious ways. But many systems open to such abuse. Send a cheque to somebody - they cash it. Then track via your bank and get the bank account details of the recipient. Heck send cheque via recorded delivery and and get the targets signature and bank account details, all legal like. Is that a fault in the systems and even if it is - how do you fix that! Well, Ebay could insist that all postings are done recorded delivery - would solve this instance.