my tracking usually stops at Heathrow, then it takes a few days for Royal Mail to deliver

When I ordered from US using USPS to Parcelforce I could put my tracking number into Royal Mail and they directed me to parcelforce!

I wouldn’t piss on parcel force if they were on fire.

Heard similar from others, apparently they got some light fingers there

I used to sell shitloads on eBay and I refused to use ParcelFarce, unless the buyer paid for full insurance value and then it was at their own risk, all agreed to in writing via official messages.

My T&Cs were a good A4 page long at one point. Changed 'foreign buyers' to 'non-UK buyers' as anyone from the US didn't think they were foreign. I dread to think what sort of bullshit and weird messages vendors get on here with the nonsense I got sent over the years.

Makes you really notice scams, and seemingly innocuous things that are completely untoward though. 99.9% of scammers go away if you tell them that you'll agree to their weird request, but you only accept payment via irreversible W.U. payment. Pretty sure escrow on here works as well, and eBay used to have physical escrow years ago too, but not set up by themselves.

The tapdancing elephant in the ParcelFarce depot that all parcels seemed to have to be subjected to must be worth a fortune as a circus novelty, even if they're getting on a bit in age.

SN2D offers a variety of postage options on your order page. I used Global and it was tracked all the way with the vendor supplying the number when item sent. I think it’s DHL who bring it to the door….