Vinted Labels: Printed or QR Code? Which Do You Need?

When a buyer pays, they have already chosen the carrier at checkout from the ones you enabled, and Vinted puts the label in the app under the sold item and in the confirmation email. For every carrier it is a QR code; for InPost and Evri there is also a 'print label' option that produces a PDF. You have five working days from the sale to get the parcel scanned by the carrier, extendable by three or five days in the app if the buyer agrees.

Open the QR code, tap 'Send a parcel' on the locker screen, scan it (brightness up) or type the code shown under it, choose the compartment size and close the door. The locker prints its own small label internally, so there is nothing to attach. At an InPost Shop staff scan the code and print a temporary label. The printed PDF is for sellers who prefer to attach the label at home or who are sending several parcels at once; it is not required.

At a ParcelShop the staff scan the code and the label prints at the counter; at one of Evri's own lockers (installed since March 2026) the terminal prints it. Keep the receipt or the on-screen confirmation, because ParcelShop parcels are usually scanned at the evening collection and the receipt is your proof until then. The printed label is useful if a shop's printer is down or for the letterbox-sized Postable service, where Evri's own pages are inconsistent about in-shop printing.

Vinted no longer issues a printable Royal Mail label. Take the parcel and the QR code to any of 11,500 Post Office branches, around 8,000 Collect+ 'Royal Mail Shop' counters (usually open later), one of Royal Mail's 2,600 lockers, or a customer service point at a delivery office, and the label is printed and applied there. A parcel postbox only works for a parcel that already has a prepaid barcoded label on it, which a Vinted Royal Mail parcel does not, and Vinted's help page warns that an unscanned parcel is not covered. Buyers can also choose to collect from a Collect+ shop or Royal Mail locker.

DPD and Relay, offered in some regions, issue a QR code scanned at the shop. AnyVan, used for large items, is a collection where you give the driver the code. DHL Express, which handles the UK-to-Australia corridor that opened in 2026, offers a QR code for parcel-shop drop-off or a printable label for courier pick-up. None of them require a printer.

Print the InPost or Evri PDF at 100% scale on A4 so the barcode is the right size, cut it out and tape it flat across its whole surface with the barcode uncovered. Do not print a screenshot of the QR code: a low-resolution print will not scan, and the printed label is a different document from the QR code anyway.

Three sales in a week. Sale one, InPost: the code scans at the Aldi locker on Saturday night, no paper involved. Sale two, Evri: the newsagent scans the screenshot, prints the label and hands over a receipt. Sale three, Royal Mail: the seller walks past a postbox, which would have been a mistake, and instead shows the QR code at the Collect+ counter in the Co-op at 7pm, where the label is printed and the parcel scanned. No printer was used for any of the three.