What is cash on delivery?

Payment by cash on delivery is a fairly common form of settlement of most buyers with sellers. The popularity of this type of payment is due to the population's distrust of online shopping and the fear of being deceived. Indeed, today in the global network there are so many scammers that people have a desire to be reinsured.

Also the payment by cash on delivery characterizes the psychological attitude to purchases on the Internet. Often they are carried out spontaneously and emotionally. In addition, some people because of the negative practice of electronic relationships formed the idea of stores on the network, as virtual some places in which things are sold and not real (virtual). Payment by cash on delivery allows you to refuse the purchase at any time and not pick up the parcel. This allows customers of online stores to feel calmer.

Thus, by cash on delivery means a method of payment, in which the buyer transfers money only after the actual receipt of the parcel. And get so you can any product - from vitamins to pieces of furniture.

For example, sports nutrition cash on delivery should have the declared value of a mail not lower than this payment. At the same time, such sending is sent between the objects of postal communication of Russia. When it is submitted by the sender, it is entrusted to a certain branch (or any other carrier) to collect the specified amount of money directly from the addressee.

Similarly, if the shoes are shipped by cash on delivery.

The exception is the military units and organizations that have the address "Field mail". These postal items are not sent here.

Payment by cash on delivery is carried out before directly receiving a parcel or a parcel with the items ordered, for example, in an online store. Before the payment is made, the addressee has the right to obtain information about the sender and his address data. After receiving the mail sent with payment by cash on delivery, it can not be sent back, and the amount of payment can not be returned.

In order to detect defects and compare the equipment with the relevant inventory, postal workers send parcels and postcards to the addressee at the time of delivery. If any damages and defects are found, the amount of payment is not collected. A relevant act is drawn up, which must be signed by the addressee, the post manager and the other employee of the department. One copy of such an act is transmitted directly to the recipient. And the second together with the mail is returned to the sender.

If it is determined that the contents of the parcel are intact and intact, then the addressee is obliged to pay the cash on delivery, and also to reimburse the cost of the shipment.

One of the drawbacks of this acquisition of goods is its appreciation of the cost of postal services. The next negative point is the probability of non-receipt of the required goods in general because of the discovered defects during shipment.