One other thing, the club says there are not offering collection from Anfield "to be consistent" - with what? Given they have for previous rounds. Sounds more like being inconsitent to me Going to have to get my mate to collect from her sorting office as she won't be in by day
For the Basel & Kiev finals they were sent out by a 3rd party in Devon, Ticket Zone. That's why it is £10 postage as it's their charge. For collections, ticket zone had to process them and post them to Anfield. Then the club had to sort through them, so it actually took longer for collections.
For Basel they were massively delayed and there were hundreds queuing and the tickets were not even there. They had to wait for the delivery, then the club sort them into surnames etc. Not as bad last year but there were some who went up and the club hadn't received them yet (or sorted them) and they had to come back another day.
It's probably easier to just get ticket zone to send to everyone.