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We are getting so many complaints about the courier industry – and EVRi in particular that in order to avoid repetition, I'm setting up some basic points in this post.

 

Here are some of the excuses/justifications that you will hear from courier companies for denying that they owe you any duty in relation to an item that you have sent or that you were expecting:

 

You have no contract with us

People generally speaking deal with EVRi through a third party broker – typically Parcel2Go or Paclink (if they are dealing through eBay).

These brokers/agents stand as a sort of buffer between the customer and EVRi and EVRi will always try to deflect liability by saying that you have no contact with them and that your issue is with the agent.

Although this is strictly true – there is an act of Parliament called the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

The effect of this Act is to give a third party beneficiary to a contract all rights that they might have had if they were directly a contracting party. This means that you can take your own direct court action against EVRi even though you don’t have a contract with them because you are clearly a beneficiary of the arrangement. The only exceptions to this are if the contract between the agent and EVRi specifically excludes the effect of the Act – and so far neither Paclink nor Parcel2Go nor EVRi have ever produced a copy of the contract to show that third party rights are excluded.
Paclink is a particularly useful buffer for EVRi because they are out of the jurisdiction – based in Spain. I can imagine that it is no accident that they are there.

Exactly the same principle applies if you buy something from eBay or elsewhere and it is lost or broken – and your seller can't be bothered to get involved claiming from the courier. As the intended recipient of the item, you are clearly intended to be a beneficiary of the contract and so although it is not you who made the contract with the courier, you inherit all the contractual rights as if you were the main contracting party.

 

Prohibited item

Courier companies often try to deny liability because they say that your item is on their “prohibited items list”.

We take the view that this “list” is generally unenforceable where the damage or loss is not affected by some characteristic of the item.
It is reasonable to say that a courier company will always have difficulty denying liability for the complete loss of an item simply because it is on the prohibited items list. It is difficult to imagine how the fact that something is made of glass or is otherwise fragile, can affect the risk of it being lost.

So an example might be that you send a television somewhere and it never arrives. EVRi will then turn around and say that televisions are specifically excluded or else that they contain glass and that is a prohibited item.

The response to this is that the fact that the television contains glass has not affected the risk of the item being lost. Of course if your television arrived with a broken screen then EVRi might have a basis for relying on their prohibited items list – although that is not certain either.
If you send an item containing glass elements, but the item is damaged in some other way without affecting the glass, then similarly it would be extremely unreasonable – and probably unenforceable – for a courier company to say that because there is a glass element inside the item, that they are not responsible for any kind of damage. Clearly if a metal casing is damaged and the fact that it contains glass has not affected the risk in any way.
Probably a reasonable position for a customer to take is to ask "what was the risk envisaged by inclusion of an item in the prohibited items list?".
So if "glass" is on the list – then a reasonable inference is that EVRi do not want to be held liable for broken glass. If the glass is lost then that is not an envisaged risk. If the frame of the painting is broken but the glass is intact – then that also indicates that the glass content of the package had no bearing on what has actually happened.

 

No compensation cover.

EVRi and all the other couriers offer “compensation cover” which is an additional little money earner dressed up to look like an insurance policy – but called something completely different to avoid the dangers of Financial Conduct Authority regulation.

What is really happening here is that you the customer are being asked to insure EVRi against their own breaches of contract or to protect them against their own negligence.

This is an extraordinary trick and yet it has developed into a consumer culture going back 30 or 40 years so that most consumers imagine that if they didn’t buy compensation cover, then they have no other avenues for redress if their property is lost or damaged by the courier.
The fact is that when you send an item through a courier service, you pay for the price of delivery. If the courier company fails to deliver your item at all or if it arrives damaged then they are in breach of that contract but by denying liability simply because you haven't insured against their breach of contract is an extraordinary position to take.
It is the courier company which should have an insurance against their own losses, their own failures, their own breaches of duty – but somehow they have produced a belief amongst consumers that if they don't buy compensation cover then they have no further rights.
Surely this can't possibly be correct.
Courier compensation cover is the equivalent of an extended warranty when you buy a car or a consumer good in Currys or PC World. Follow this link to read about extended warranties. There are huge parallels with the compensation cover culture of courier companies.

Of course if you do pay extra for compensation cover – then this will help your claim against EVRi et cetera to be even more slam-dunk. But if you don't buy the cover, don't imagine that you have no rights.

The sale to you of insurance company is in effect the sale to you of duplicate rights. You already have full statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. For EVRi or any other delivery company to deny or to restrict liability on any basis is contrary to section 57 of the Consumer Rights Act. The selling of insurance is a secondary contract which is calculated to contribute to the reduction or restriction of your rights under your contract. Secondary contracts are prohibited under section 72 of the consumer rights act.
The parcel delivery industry routinely ignores this and for some reason or other nobody has pulled them up on it. They are Teflon. Trading standards do nothing. The FCA does nothing even though they are selling unauthorised and unregulated insurance.

If your parcel is lost or damaged or stolen then it is relevant whether you have had insurance. We will help you claim. We will help you win.

Incorrectly declared value
This is one area where the courier companies probably do have a basis for loss denial.
It's a basic principle of contract that you reach an agreement with a shared understanding of exactly what has to be done and of the risks of not doing it.
If you send a £500 item to a courier service but you declare it's value as only £100, then the courier company would probably be justified in reducing the amount of money they paid you to that declared value.
When you enter into a contract with a courier company, you pay them a certain amount of money to take a certain risk – value £XXX. The courier company accepts your commission on that basis. If they then later on break or lose your item, it would probably be unreasonable for you to expect them to reimburse you with the true value of the item. The courier company might quite reasonably say that had they known the true value of the item then they might have taken a different position on the cost of delivery or whether to deliver at all.
Make sure that you declare the correct value of the item that you are sending – and also make sure that you have evidence to support that valuation.

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In this image, you can see that EVRi is already setting themselves up to deny liability for a missing parcel simply on the basis that it appears on the prohibited items list.

Of course this is dishonest – and calculated to defeat the first wave of claimants who don't have sufficient confidence or who are too trusting of a company like EVRi.

Any contractual term which seeks to exclude liability for a lost item on the basis that the item appears on a prohibited items list is contrary to section 57 of the Consumer Rights Act and is unenforceable.
If the item is properly declared and the courier company agrees to carry it then they have entered into a contract and are bound by the statute law which governs the conduct of the contract – The Consumer Rights Act 2015.

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(Incidentally, you should notice the customers response and their threat to call the police. This is a clear signal to EVRi that they have a customer here who is blustering, who doesn't know what they're talking about and will probably give up quite soon.)

This is not the way to handle it.

 

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