How to Drop Off Parcels at an Evri ParcelShop

A ParcelShop is not an Evri building. It is a counter in someone else's shop (Spar, Premier, One Stop, Co-op, Asda, Tesco Express, independent newsagents and petrol stations) with a scanner and a printer, and a storage area behind the counter for parcels until Evri's driver collects them, usually once a day in the late afternoon or evening. Evri has more than 9,000 of them, and with its own lockers (rolled out from March 2026) the network passed 11,000 drop-off points, with a target of 25,000 by 2030.

Find the nearest in the Evri app or the ParcelShop finder on evri.com; after a Vinted or eBay sale the marketplace app usually shows a map too. Opening hours are the host shop's hours, which vary from early morning to late evening on weekdays and are often shorter on Sundays and bank holidays, so check the app before you set off rather than assuming.

Most ParcelShops have a printer at the counter, so a QR code on your phone is enough: staff scan it and the label prints there. Vinted and eBay generate the code in their apps, Depop Shipping emails it to you, and when you book directly on evri.com you can choose 'print in ParcelShop' instead of 'print at home'. A printed label is accepted everywhere if you have one, and Etsy's Evri labels are print-at-home PDFs.

Screenshot the QR code before you leave. Shops in basements and on petrol forecourts can have poor signal, and a cached screenshot scans just as well. The one service to be careful with is the letterbox-sized Postable option, where Evri's own pages are inconsistent about in-shop printing; take a printed label for those.

When a Vinted buyer picks Evri at checkout, the postage is already paid and the QR code appears under the sold item in the Vinted app (InPost and Evri labels can also be downloaded as a PDF if you prefer to attach one). You have five working days from the sale to get the parcel scanned; if you cannot make it, request a three- or five-day extension in the app and the buyer decides whether to allow it.

The size category you chose when listing drives the label Vinted issues. A parcel that is much bigger or heavier than the category can be refused or surcharged at the counter, so list honestly. On Vinted the Evri option goes up to 15 kg, which is why it is the carrier buyers tend to pick for coats, bundles and boxed shoes that will not fit an InPost compartment, and Vinted's own protection covers integrated-label orders up to £500 whichever carrier the buyer chose.

Depop Shipping is Evri-only: pick a size tier when you list (Small under 1 kg, Medium under 2 kg, Large under 5 kg), the buyer pays that tier, and after the sale Depop emails the QR code and shows it in the order. The order is marked as shipped at the first Evri scan, which is what stops Depop's automatic cancellation of unshipped orders.

On eBay, Simple Delivery issues an Evri label or QR code when eBay assigns Evri; the label is valid for seven days and eBay's protection starts at the first scan if you post within your handling time. Etsy sells Evri labels in the seller dashboard as print-at-home PDFs for UK addresses only (Evri-to-US labels were suspended in August 2025); an unused Etsy Evri label can be refunded within 15 days.

Ask for the receipt and keep it until the buyer has the parcel. It shows the date, time and shop, and usually the tracking reference, and it is the evidence that the parcel was in Evri's hands if it is lost before its first scan. Without it, Evri can decline a claim, and the marketplace has nothing to go on.

ParcelShop parcels are normally scanned into the network at the evening collection, not when you hand them over, so an afternoon drop-off can show nothing until the next morning. Evri lockers scan immediately, which is the main reason to use one if tracking speed matters. Standard Evri cover is £20, raised to £999 only when you book directly and add it; on marketplace orders the marketplace's protection is what covers the rest.

Staff can turn a parcel away if it is over 15 kg, longer than 120 cm on any side or over 245 cm combined, not sealed properly, without a valid code or label, or simply too big for the storage space behind the counter, which happens at small shops and at Christmas. If that happens, the Evri app will show another ParcelShop nearby, an Evri locker (fixed maximum 62 × 57 × 39 cm, 24/7, label printed at the terminal) or a courier collection from home, which Evri offers on weekdays.

A ParcelShop cannot take an InPost or Royal Mail parcel, and an InPost locker has not accepted Evri parcels since 1 March 2025. Check the courier name in the marketplace app before you leave the house.

A wool coat packed in a mailing bag weighs 1.6 kg and measures 45 × 35 × 14 cm, too deep for an InPost Medium and awkward for a Large, so the buyer chose Evri. The Vinted app shows the QR code; you screenshot it, walk to the Premier on the corner at 5pm, hand the bag over, watch the label print and take the receipt. The Vinted order still says 'awaiting scan' at bedtime because the driver collected at 4pm; by 8am the next morning it shows the first scan and the five-working-day clock is satisfied. The coat is well inside Evri's limits (15 kg, 120 cm, 245 cm combined: 45 + 2 × (35 + 14) = 143 cm).