Use of pre-franked enevelopes??

Norfolk_Jim

andyl wrote:

Just a thought,but what if you placed a piece of sellotape over the stamp (for certain adhesion) Then you could wipe it clean.

Its against post office regulations to obscure the stamps in any way, they will likely treat the letter as unpaid. Thats quite likely because the automatic sorting machine reads a phosphorous band on the stamp. If it cant detect one it diverts the letter for hand franking / sorting, so gets seen by a postie who, if can be bothered, will surcharge it.
Re using stamps, wiped clean or otherwise is an offence. Strangely, so too is taking an unused stamp off of an unposted envelope! Theres a long winded procedure to get a replacement stamp for when that happens. However, back in the real world I'd just steam it off again if I'd bought a stamp and decided not to post a letter I'd stuck it on.
Generally, dont encourage postal fraud by re-using stamps or trying to clean stamps. I know its low on the crime scale but there are legitimate ways to save on your postage.

drstonk

Here's my tip, it takes a bit of time and effort but if you're bored one day try try this.

Wrap a normal housebrick in brown paper, affix postage reply envelope firmly, take it along to the post office and put it in their parcel post. The company receiving the item will be reponsible for the postage cost.

I do this the junk mail that falls out of every bloody magazine i buy.
Hopefully if enough people do this we will all be able to open magazines without it snowing junk!!!!

Also good to do to the objectionable debt management companies etc.

have fun

orlwaysbroke

Nice one drstonk - that's one to remember.

Maybe we could start a thread on sweet consumer revenge tactics... if we coordinated the strategy we could all post to a particular culprit on a particular day. That way they'd receive hundreds of bricks on one day.

(I think we'd have to apologise to the poor posties in advance)

TaBunny

drstonk wrote:

Here's my tip, it takes a bit of time and effort but if you're bored one day try try this.

Wrap a normal housebrick in brown paper, affix postage reply envelope firmly, take it along to the post office and put it in their parcel post. The company receiving the item will be reponsible for the postage cost.

I do this the junk mail that falls out of every bloody magazine i buy.
Hopefully if enough people do this we will all be able to open magazines without it snowing junk!!!!

Also good to do to the objectionable debt management companies etc.

have fun

LOL I love this what a novel idea, I think I will be modifying this and sending some unwanted stuff to the people who have conned me over the years ie: CURRY'S, COMETS etc

Poppy_P

alltd wrote:

I tried sending a letter to myself using a prepaid envelope just as a test to see if it would arrive and it came through the door this morning! So I think that it does work but I dunno if this is 100% reliable.

You were lucky. I really would advise against this. I'm an ex-postie, so no misplaced loyalty to them, just don't want you all to be falling out with your friends who will be having to pay for letters you send them.

Steve_xx

You are not allowed to alter the reply address on postpaid envelopes. These reply paid service envelopes feature an indicia which is capable of being read and counted by Royal Mails sorting equipment and then recharged to the company who is using the indicia. If the company who uses the indicia is being charged for reply paid mail that they do not receive, then they will instigate an enquiry within Royal Mail to establish where the mail is going. You may then be charged with fraud if you were discovered.

dounome

allen36_0 wrote:

What's the situation with re-using all these pre-franked envelopes that comes with junk mail - can they be recycled for free postage merely by adding a new label.

I've done it occasionally in the past as revenge on the junkmailers but it is acceptable to the Royal Mail?? your advice welcome

Not acceptable or advisable as royal mail may charge the recipient of letter. Do you wonder why RM raise the price of stamps or charge the customer for unstamped mail. This is why!
These envelopes are only for the use of replying to the company who sent it.

Poppy_P

>envelopes feature an indicia <

Not sure what that means, but they do have their own postcode. If you mean the blue dots or red lines, that is added on when they go through the franking machines.

As long as the original postcode is obscured, it won't get charged to the company.

Ms_Notalotofmoney_2

chrisvenn wrote:

I always send the junk mail back to them in their envelopes

So do I. And it gives me a sense of satisfaction too!!!!

adam2484

its just not worth the risk is it... maybe they got it... maybe they didn't.

put a flaming stamp on and quit considering fraud... sheeessh

like the brick idea tho