What happens if you post a letter with the stamp on the left?

becky170

Hello,

I didn't know where to post this, but I know you are all friendly here and might help! Will Royal Mail deliver letters which have the stamp on the left hand side rather than the right hand side? Will it just take longer to process?

Thanks!

marisco_2

I wouldn't hold out much hope. Royal Mail struggle to deliver letters that have stamps on the right hand side.

Even if it makes it to the local sorting office you can bet a pound to a penny your postie will put said letter through the wrong door. Or maybe I am just unlucky. The amount of mail that my kind neighbours bring round to me you would not believe!

savingmummy

My DD puts the stamps on the bottom in the middle you name it and they always get there.

j.e.j.

The guy in the post office seems to stick the gold-coloured postage stamp in the middle, on the left, right, wherever.. I don't think it makes much difference.

It'll be read by machine, so not sure if the machine would be programmed to just look in the right hand corner, or the whole envelope. You'd think it'd be the latter?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

You really annoy the guy whose job it is to deal with the postcode machine.


It's one of my brother's pet hates at work. That and putting the wrong area down because the one you use is a bit posher than the correct one.

Sammy85_2

marisco wrote: »

I wouldn't hold out much hope. Royal Mail struggle to deliver letters that have stamps on the right hand side.

Maybe you're just having some real bad luck?

I sent maybe 20 odd thankyou cards out last week, 2nd class. Made the 6pm collection, just. They arrived next day, even the one that went to the other end of the country. I was shocked to get messages the next day thanking me for the thankyou cards. I had assumed sending them 2nd class would mean it would take 2-3 days longer than 1st.

skintchick

Jojo- why does it make a difference to him? Is it because of how he has to put it through the machine?

January20

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

You really annoy the guy whose job it is to deal with the postcode machine.

And so he burns it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

podperson

You can put a stamp anywhere on the letter and Royal Mail have to deliver it. I believe they ask for it in the right hand corner because that's the way they go into the machines or something - so worse case scenario it has to be hand sorted and may take a little longer.

becky170

Oh good, it seems like it should get there then! I'll try not to annony the people in the sorting office again though

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

skintchick wrote: »

Jojo- why does it make a difference to him? Is it because of how he has to put it through the machine?

It's just something that irritates him. He says something along the lines of 'Just how hard is it to do it properly?'.

He enters the postcode in for the ones where it's unknown or (most often) totally unreadable. Not quite sure how it works (hardly the most thrilling work I've ever heard of), but it obviously does for him; he has Aspergers and they seem to have capitalised on it in a way that works well for everybody.

Getting the postcode wrong, having appalling handwriting or not knowing it doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest - but deliberately doing things wrong really, really annoys him. That and silly shaped envelopes that get stuck in machines. Oh, and dark envelopes with dark ink writing on.



And no, laughing aside, he wouldn't dream of doing anything to the post.




[FWIW, I get irritated by decorating work where it's not been properly cut in and there are splodges of paint on the other surfaces - it's the same sort of instinctive annoyance]