What changed
Depop removed the 'Other' ship-it-yourself option for new US listings; all new listings use Depop Shipping, a prepaid USPS label or QR code paid for by the buyer
When
Effective October 28, 2026, confirmed in Depop's US shipping guidance; reported November 5, 2026; listings set to Other before October 28 keep it until sold
Who it affects
US Depop sellers, above all the older accounts and vintage stores that still bought their own postage; UK sellers keep the choice between Evri labels and their own delivery
What to do
Check the package size Depop assigns to light items, price new listings with the buyer's label cost in mind, and do not delete and relist Other items you want to ship yourself

Key takeaways

  • From October 28, 2026 every new US Depop listing ships with Depop Shipping, a prepaid USPS label paid for by the buyer; the 'Other' option survives only on older listings until they sell, and a relist switches it off.
  • eBay, Depop's owner since July 30, says its carrier rates have cut Depop's parcel cost and that shipping investment is recorded as contra revenue; mandatory labels bring every parcel under those contracts while rivals subsidise $0.99 shipping.
  • Check the package size Depop assigns to light items, reprice so the buyer's total holds, and never delete and relist an Other item you still want to ship yourself.
Other (pre Oct 28 listings)Depop Shipping (all new listings)
Seller buys own postage
Seller sets shipping price
Prepaid USPS label or QR code
Tracking added by hand within 10 days
Depop Protection for sellers
Survives a delete and relist

From Depop's US shipping guidance, read November 9, 2026

What Depop changed on October 28

Depop's US help page now reads, in a line added for this change: from October 28, 2026, 'Other' is no longer available for new listings, and everything listed from that date uses Depop Shipping. A listing set to Other before October 28 stays that way until it sells. Delete and relist it and it switches to Depop Shipping. Value Added Resource reported the change on November 5, 2026, and Shopifreaks picked it up the same day. There was no seller email or blog post that we could find; the rule appeared in the help centre.

Depop Shipping works as it did before. After a sale the seller gets a QR code by email and in the app, plus a printable label, and drops the parcel at USPS. The label is tracked, so the seller does not mark the order shipped by hand. Depop warns that a seller who picks Depop Shipping and then ships another way loses Depop Protection for sellers and may see the order cancelled and refunded. Orders not shipped within 10 days of purchase are cancelled automatically either way.

The rules now, in one place

These are the points from Depop's guidance and Value Added Resource's report that decide how a seller works from here.

  • New US listings: Depop Shipping only. The buyer pays the shipping price Depop sets, and the seller receives the prepaid USPS label or QR code after the sale.
  • Grandfathered listings: anything set to Other before October 28 keeps it until it sells. Sellers on Other must still use tracked shipping, add the tracking number to the receipt within 10 days and mark the order shipped, and tracking cannot be edited once added.
  • Relisting resets the choice. A deleted and relisted Other item moves to Depop Shipping.
  • Package size is assigned by Depop. A seller on Reddit, quoted by Value Added Resource, said a pair of pants weighing a few ounces was offered only Large or Extra Large options, raising the price the buyer sees; Depop support told the seller smaller sizes should have been available.
  • UK sellers are not affected. Depop's UK guidance still lets sellers choose between integrated Evri shipping and arranging their own delivery.
  • Australia went first: Depop made prepaid Australia Post labels mandatory for new listings from October 6 for new accounts and October 26 for existing ones.

Why eBay wants every Depop parcel on its labels

eBay closed its $1.4 billion purchase of Depop on July 30, 2026, and the shipping mandate took effect on October 28, the day eBay reported third quarter results. On that call, Chief Financial Officer Peggy Alford said access to eBay's preferred carrier rates has lowered Depop's average parcel cost, and that a significant part of Depop's shipping investment is recorded as contra revenue, which is why Depop runs at a lower take rate than eBay's core marketplace. Management said Depop's US gross merchandise volume more than doubled year over year on a pro forma basis, and that eBay and Depop together sold about $9 billion of fashion in the US over the trailing 12 months, growing in the mid 20 percent range.

Put those statements together and the logic is plain. Every parcel that moves from a seller's own Pirate Ship account to a Depop label is a parcel eBay buys at its negotiated rate, can discount for buyers when it wants to, and can count. The competition is spending hard: ThredUp's chief executive told investors on his own third quarter call that rival peer to peer marketplaces could spend as much as $500 million on marketing and order subsidies in the second half of 2026, plus shipping subsidies, and eBay's filing showed a $120 million year over year rise in quarterly marketing costs, mostly Depop and eBay Live. Vinted moved most US buyers to $0.99 shipping in August, Depop ran a $0.99 offer in September on purchases under $10, and Poshmark cut its standard $6.49 buyer charge to $0.99 on November 3. A platform cannot run that playbook on parcels it does not control.

How Depop got to mandatory labels

  1. eBay closes $1.4B Depop purchase

  2. Australia: prepaid Australia Post labels mandatory

  3. US: 'Other' removed for new listings; eBay Q3 call

  4. Poshmark cuts buyer shipping to $0.99

  5. Value Added Resource reports the change

So what: the money on a $25 item

The seller who loses here sells cheap, light items and had tuned shipping to win on total price. On Depop the buyer pays the shipping line, so a higher label price shows up as a higher checkout total and a lower conversion rate, not as a direct fee to the seller. The seller who gains is the one who never wanted to print labels at home: tracked USPS postage, seller protection, no tracking numbers to type.

For example, using illustrative numbers only: a vintage seller lists a $25 T-shirt that weighs 6 ounces. Buying her own postage she charged the buyer $4.50, so checkout was $29.50. If Depop assigns a label the buyer pays $7.00 for, checkout is $32.00, an 8.5% jump in the price the buyer sees before fees. If that moves her conversion rate from 3.0% to 2.7% on 1,000 listing views a month, she sells 27 shirts instead of 30 and loses $75 of revenue on that one listing. Across 200 similar listings the gap is real money. The fix is not to fight the label; it is to measure the assigned size, correct it when it is wrong, and reprice the item so the total still clears the buyer's limit.

  • Measure the effect on your own sold items, not on anecdotes: compare sell-through on listings created after October 28 with the same categories before.
  • Depop's label prices and package tiers are not published as a single rate card, so check the price shown at listing time and treat any number you see in forums as one seller's example.

What sellers should do this week

Five moves, with who does each and how you know it worked.

  • Owner or listing lead: open five light listings created since October 28 in the app and note the package size Depop assigned and the shipping price the buyer sees. Metric: a short list of items where the size is wrong, sent to Depop support with the item links.
  • Listing lead: stop deleting and relisting Other items to refresh them; edit in place instead, since a relist switches the item to Depop Shipping. Metric: zero accidental switches on items you want to post yourself.
  • Owner: reprice new low priced items so the item plus Depop's shipping line lands at the total you used to charge. Metric: sell-through on post October 28 listings within two weeks of your pre change average.
  • Ops: for items still on Other, keep a tracked service and add tracking inside 10 days, because the order cancels automatically otherwise. Metric: no auto cancellations in the Sold tab.
  • Owner: if Depop is one of several channels, compare landed cost and conversion per channel for the same item, including eBay, Poshmark and your own site, before the holiday peak. Metric: a per channel margin table updated monthly.

Depop seller checklist before the holiday peak

  • Audit package sizes on five light listings made since Oct 28
  • Report wrong sizes to Depop support with item links
  • Edit, never delete and relist, items still set to Other
  • Reprice new low priced items for the buyer's total
  • Add tracking within 10 days on Other orders
  • Compare margin per channel before December

When this does not apply

If you sell on Depop UK, nothing changes; the choice of Evri or your own delivery stays. If you only ever used Depop Shipping, the policy is already how you work. Business sellers on eBay's core US marketplace are not covered by this rule, although eBay has widened its own Ship with eBay program to listings up to $500 and is moving fee free sellers in Australia to managed shipping from November 11, so the direction is the same. Brands selling new goods on Amazon are not affected at all, but the lesson carries: when a marketplace takes over shipping, the price the buyer sees moves, and pricing strategy has to move with it.

Where PPC Spider helps

PPC Spider is a marketplace agency for brands selling on Amazon and other marketplaces. We track marketplace rule changes like this one on our ecommerce marketplace news channel so brands can plan before a change hits checkout. When a platform fee or shipping change moves your margin, our Amazon account management team resets target ACoS from the new profit per unit, and our Amazon profit calculator shows the math. Want to know where cost changes are already hurting your listings? Start with a free audit.

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