Royal mail "fee to pay"

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt

Last time I had one of these it was a b****y job application pack from a charity!!!! :mad:

Smashing

Leave it to go back to the git who put incorrect postage on in the first place. If it's important enough, they'll do it properly - plus, the other person doesn't get told there is insufficient postage if you pay for it so they'll only do it again.

That said, if it is possibly from someone you know (ask around?) you can collect it and then demand request the money back from them.

RAMBLER

what I tend to do is go up to the Post Office and have a look at the envelope (the writing of the address). If its someone I know or post I'm expecting I'' accept it, but I have refused to pay once for a business item and apparantly it went back to the sender.

Talentguy

Where I used to work, if an item hadn't been franked properly; it'd still be delivered but we would get a little advice slip asking us to print a franking label and send it to the post office. That way the customers wouldn't get charged. Don't know where this falls in with your query but if it's from a business, they should do this or just do what Rambler said.

Sooler

1jim wrote:

still it wont be long until they lose the monopoly of they carry on like this

then for less cost you'll be able to get an even poorer service

trisontana

dmg24 wrote:

Perhaps you should be more upset with the sender who has not attached adequate postage?!

The Yorkshire Building Society did this to me a couple of years ago. I had to pay £1.35 and drive 4 miles to retrieve the item.This was because there was no stamp on the envelope. I complained to the Yorkshire, they were very apologetic and credited my account with £5.

Turning_into_scrooge

I once had a really stupid financial adviser, we nicked named him bumbling idiot, who kept on sending me letters with the wrong postage on. I ended up forking out nearly £10 for his inability to weigh his letters. I told him to take a hike last year only he wouldn't go so every time his number came up on caller display i ignored him and never called him back, he soon got the message that way.

kuohu

29 hours after the original post and we still don't know what's in the packet. The suspense is worse than Lost!

steve_cov

TNG wrote:

This is probably a newly 'overweight' item i.e. it is a large letter with a small letter stamp on it.

I give the new system about six months before customers mutiny under the weight of underpaid postage charges for undelivered letters.

The new system is confusing, unnecessary and unwanted. There seems to be an unlimited range of postal charges for different weights, thicknesses and lengths of letter. It won't last.

smcaul

I don't understand why you are all moaning!!! Most mail does not have a senders address on it so how could the PO get the additional postage costs back if they don't know who sent it? If they did just return the item to the sender you would no doubt be up in arms because you would want the item deliverd and would have "paid the excess" if you had known!! For years we have had a very cheap next day service and I believe we still have, if you can find a service cheaper that delivers to 100% of uk addresses pleas post a link - the PO represents excellent value for money if you ask me.