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baileffs calling for someone that lived in our house - help please!!!

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  • oldone_2
    oldone_2 Posts: 974 Forumite
    scousethife wrote: »
    I knew someone would start dribbling on about its illegal to open someones mail.. NO ONE EVER GETS DONE FOR IT. Its just something for hysterical daily mail readers to worry about!

    Grow up.

    Wrong. A postman near us was done for opening other peoples post.

    Don't make generalizations, or unsubstantiated statements.
  • Ian_Griffiths_Halifax
    Ian_Griffiths_Halifax Posts: 1,690 Forumite
    oldone wrote: »
    Wrong. A postman near us was done for opening other peoples post.

    Don't make generalizations, or unsubstantiated statements.

    That's under different circumstances. He would have had no reason to open somebody elses mail.
    I am a Mortgage Consultant and don't like to be told what I can and can't put in a signature so long as it's legal and truthful.
  • Incisor
    Incisor Posts: 2,271 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    oldone wrote: »
    Wrong. A postman near us was done for opening other peoples post.

    Don't make generalizations, or unsubstantiated statements.
    Being a postman, that would have been mail in transmission, to which the law applies. It does not apply to the OP in this thread.

    Don't provide misleading examples.
    After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union
    Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people
    Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only
    By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government
    To dissolve the people
    And elect another?
  • oldone_2
    oldone_2 Posts: 974 Forumite
    Incisor wrote: »
    Being a postman, that would have been mail in transmission, to which the law applies. It does not apply to the OP in this thread.

    Don't provide misleading examples.

    scouselife said, and I quote
    " NO ONE EVER GETS DONE FOR IT"

    I merely proved this statement wrong.
  • bandraoi
    bandraoi Posts: 1,261 Forumite
    What he got done for was under mail in transmission, not mail as delivered therefore he didn't get done for it, he got done for something else./

    You didn't prove the statement wrong.
  • oldone_2
    oldone_2 Posts: 974 Forumite
    bandraoi wrote: »
    What he got done for was under mail in transmission, not mail as delivered therefore he didn't get done for it, he got done for something else./

    You didn't prove the statement wrong.

    I am enjoying this :D

    scousethife said, and I quote

    "I knew someone would start dribbling on about its illegal to open someones mail.. NO ONE EVER GETS DONE FOR IT"

    I merely showed that someone (a postman) got done for opening someones mail.In the absence of anyone defining the term 'done', I have interpreted it in the literal sense which is just as valid as any other interpretation.:rotfl:
  • Rick62
    Rick62 Posts: 989 Forumite
    Read the act properly:

    128. Subsection (3) makes it an offence for a person, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, to open a postal packet which he knows or suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him.

    So once delivered it is only illegal IF (a) you are doing it intending for the detriment of someone else, (b) without reasonable excuse.

    I usually open letters arriving at my house adddressed to other people - I want to know what my address is being used for. Particularly in these days of identity theft if someone uses your address for fraudulent purposes you want to know about it. It perfectly legal to open mail addresed to your address.
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  • scousethife
    scousethife Posts: 926 Forumite
    oldone wrote: »
    I am enjoying this :D

    scousethife said, and I quote

    "I knew someone would start dribbling on about its illegal to open someones mail.. NO ONE EVER GETS DONE FOR IT"

    I merely showed that someone (a postman) got done for opening someones mail.In the absence of anyone defining the term 'done', I have interpreted it in the literal sense which is just as valid as any other interpretation.:rotfl:

    Which is just childish and the usual example of someone on the internet thinking their smart.

    Feel free too carry on with yourself, whilst we all ignore you and help the op out.
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  • oldone_2
    oldone_2 Posts: 974 Forumite
    scousethife wrote: »
    Which is just childish and the usual example of someone on the internet thinking their smart.

    Feel free too carry on with yourself, whilst we all ignore you and help the op out.
    For goodness sake lighten up and get a sense of humour. Your childish side swipe at Daily Mail readers is hardly helping the O.P :rolleyes:
  • Incisor
    Incisor Posts: 2,271 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    oldone wrote: »
    For goodness sake lighten up and get a sense of humour. Your childish side swipe at Daily Mail readers is hardly helping the O.P :rolleyes:
    Ah, yes, helping the OP. Like providing an irrelevant example about a postman opening mail in transmission was helping the OP way above proving how clever you are.
    After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union
    Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people
    Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only
    By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government
    To dissolve the people
    And elect another?
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