Parcel
Sending or receiving a parcel? Record its condition.
Photograph the item and its packing before you send it, or film opening a parcel as it arrives. You get a free receipt. Later, anyone can check the photos existed, unchanged, by that day.
Your files never leave your phone or computer. We only receive the set's fingerprint, a code worked out from the files that can't be turned back into them.
Why record it
Sellers can show what went into the box, and buyers what came out of it.
The date in a photo's file details can be lost when it is uploaded. This receipt's date is tied to what is in the files, so it isn't.
What the checklist asks for
Sending
- The item, all sides
- Serial number or labels
- The item going into the box, with its packing
- The box sealed, with its address label
- Proof of postage
Receiving
- The box as it arrived, all sides, before opening
- The delivery label
- Opening it, in one video without stopping
- The item, all sides
- Any damage, close up
Tips
- One video taken in one go, without stopping, is harder to question than separate photos.
- Finish the set as soon as you are done: that is when it is sent to be timestamped, and the shorter the gap, the better.
Official guidance
What a receipt proves
A receipt proves that these exact files existed, unchanged, by the time shown on the receipt.
What it doesn't prove
- It does not prove that what a file shows or says is true, or that a scene was not staged.
- It does not prove who took the photos or made the files, or where.
- It is not legal advice. Whoever settles a dispute, such as a deposit scheme, a court or a hire company, decides what evidence it accepts.