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Polish Post Office provides a service solving this very problem: the sender can marked the parcel with ``recipient opens the parcel in presence of mailman befor
by dexen 14y ago
Polish Post Office provides a service solving this very problem: the sender can marked the parcel with ``recipient opens the parcel in presence of mailman before payment and can return it right away without payment if she so wishes'' option. This optional service is quite cheap, at about 10% of general shipment fee methinks. The other downside is that recipient have to pick the parcel, either at doorstep or at the post office; it cannot be left in the mailbox.
On polish market, `allegro.pl' -- rather than eBay -- is the dominant auction/garage sale platform, and it is somewhat common to request such option when ordering from sellers without reputation. There is some abuse of this system, but it seems low enough.
- kahawe 14y agoThis sounds fantastic, both the option and allegro. I had a good experience selling someone a quite pricey item with cash-on-delivery and I don't think the buyer would have had much chance to rip me off there; of course as a fraudulent seller you could just send them the above mentioned stones or a cardboard box labeled "macbook pro" (which was prominently done to get back at a scammer).
- shimon_e 14y agoIt's like this in China also plus alipay holds the money in escrow.
- gregpilling 14y agoTIL that the Polish post office offers services that the US Postal Service does not. I wish the USPS had the "Recipient opens" option.