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Fraudulent activity
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IT IS NOT! As the law explicitly states:
"A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him."
The mail I receive is addressed to someone else, and I know that. Therefore I am opening a postal letter that has been incorrectly delivered to me. I'm committing an offence.
If I for example, opened the letter by mistake, perhaps I did not read the address label, then that is an honest mistake and whether that would be illegal or not would be questionable.
To be honest, I couldn't give a crap about the legality of the issue. I'll open any incorrectly delivered mail as I see fit, provided of course it has my address on it and not someone else's. No one will tell me otherwise.We’ve had to remove your signature. Please check the Forum Rules if you’re unsure why it’s been removed and, if still unsure, email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
didnt the op say it had theor address on it? so its for the household, open it and have a butchers as you did!Target Savings by end 2009: 20,000
current savings: 20,500 (target hit yippee!)
Debts: 8000 (student loan so doesnt count)
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The mail I receive is addressed to someone else, and I know that. Therefore I am opening a postal letter that has been incorrectly delivered to me. I'm committing an offence.
*sigh*
Are you doing it with the intention of acting to that person's detriment? If not, then you're not.0 -
How do you know BEFORE you open the letter - by then surely its too late?0
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Well if you don't know, there's no intent, and no offence. You may, however, think (for example) that there's money in it; if it's a birthday card, for instance.0
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I agree with the posters who say that they would open mail that had been posted into their homes. Basically if its on my doormat, then I have no problems with opening it. In one case, it was just aswell because it was from a DCA for a previous occupant and if I hadn't dealt with it, then potential harassment could have occured.
I do not believe this to be illegal for the following reasons :
(a) Once the letter is on my doormat it is no longer "in the course of its transmission by post", it has reached its destination.
(b) I am not "intending to act to a person’s detriment" by opening the mail.
Look people, you need to protect yourselves - you need to know what is being delivered to your homes. It could be someone using your address for fraudulent activity, and you need to identify this.
Up to your own reasoning at the end of the day, but for me, once the letter has been delivered to me, I want to know what it is.0
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