Prepaid Envelopes

Fillyerboots

Do you get loads of postage prepaid envelopes in your junk mail?

Why not use them?

Stick a label over the original address and write (or preferably type) your address on it. stick it in the post and off it goes.

I tried it a few times with empty envelopes and put my own address on them and sure enough they are delivered.

Might be advisable to only use for the type of postage where it is not the end of the world if it doesn't arrive !!!

Moderator comment:- NB This may well be illegal or considered as fraud.

System

Or you could use the prepaid envelopes to dispose of junk mail. They send some to you, you send them some back.

Sarahsaver

A brother of a close friend 'reuses' such envelopes and has had no problems with the mail getting delivered to its intended destination.
Quite right too. A justified payback to the companies who subject our letterboxes to all that sh1te!

Trix

Check out http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Vent;action=display;num=1079988799 for more ways to use freepost envelopes (and for the boring post office view on using freepost enevelopes for yourself ::))

System

I would be very careful doing this! It's mail fraud which is an inprisonable offence!!!

Sarahsaver

Is anyone currently residing at her majesty's pleasure for this then? ;D

Not as bad as the CRIMINAL postal service i get now - arrives about 10 am when it used to be around 7...

SPL

That'll be the Post Office moving from two rounds to one. Most people will find that their delivery times have been affected. You want to be glad you even get your mail - did anyone else see that Dispatches program? Shocking!  :o

misty

Is anyone currently residing at her majesty's pleasure for this then? ;D

Not as bad as the CRIMINAL postal service i get now - arrives about 10 am when it used to be around 7...

10 am - that's practically the crack of dawn round here where it's been known to be delivered at 4.40pm. I received a letter inviting me for interview the day after the interview! It was posted over a week earlier. Postal service is Crap.

wirm

In repsonse to Sarahsaver:

My postman said something to me when I complained to him about the amount of junk mail I get. What he said was:

"It keeps me in a job"

:-/

agent007_2

Yeah 10am is EARLY! I used to get my post around 11am but now it's moved to 2pm. Think yourself lucky!

mick10101

Do you get loads of postage prepaid envelopes in your junk mail?

Why not use them?

Stick a label over the original address and write (or preferably type) your address on it. stick it in the post and off it goes.

I tried it a few times with empty envelopes and put my own address on them and sure enough they are delivered.

Might be advisable to only use for the type of postage where it is not the end of the world if it doesn't arrive !!!

I have had a letter sent to me for an Ebay payment, but the post office held the letter until I paid the postage and a handling fee, which of course I passed on to the buyer.

So be carefull you may get caught out ::)