Complain for change: don’t put up with dodgy deliveries

I had an item delivered by post office from pc world. Upon inspection it was clear some tape had been tampered with and on opening the item was missing. I called and explained this and was told an investigation would take place and I would receive a call back with results within week. However I have now received an email asking me to sign a denial of receipt, which has a list of declarations including I have checked that no one else has signed for the package, I agree to assist police and I am happy for information to be passed on to police etc etc. Now while I have no problem answering any questions police may wish to ask, I don’t wish to enter into any such agreement and sign this declaration. Again no signature was even required. Do I have to sign this declaration? it says that unless signed and returned within 7 days that they will withdraw my claim and not begin investigation. However I have verbally confirmed I have not got the item and was told it was to be investigated. Is this just a ploy to stop me claiming, again I don’t wish to enter any further agreement after they have failed to deliver what I paid for and to investigate as they said. However if I must sign it to get my refund then I will do so, just abit suspicious of this and if it affects my rights to refund for failed delivery of goods in package.

I would be interested to know just what these delivery drivers get out of pretending that no-one is home. It happens so often that there must be a reason for it. I’m housebound and am always home, yet time and again this happens to me. Once I was in the kitchen and heard what I thought was the letter post being delivered. When I went to fetch it it was a card from Parcelforce saying ‘sorry we missed you’ . No-one had rung the bell or knocked on the door. Another time, I was lying in wait and flung the door open as soon as I heard the gate. The chap stood there with a filled-in card in his hand and no parcel. He had to go and fetch it from the van. He looked livid to have been caught. Since they only have to re-deliver I can’t see how they gain anything from this behaviour, but clearly they must. Any whistle-blowers willing to spill the beans?

Im currently in dispute with an Ebay Seller who refuse to answer my messages and Ebay refuse to contact them on my behalf. The problem started with the goods not arriving, checked the parcel tracking number which showed it to have been delivered. Unfortunately Yodel tracking information doesn’t show where to! I opened an Ebay claim which they rejected as they did with the appeal. They have demanded that I contact the delivery company for proof of non delivery however Yodel say that, as I don’t have a contract with them, GDPR prevents them from giving me any information. Funnily enough that was the excuse that Ebay gave saying why they couldn’t contact Yodel. I really am going round in circles with this one, eleven Emails to EBay’s Customer Help Service who just keep fobbing me off.