Credit card sent to wrong address!! advice please?

scott_lithgows

Looksguywalker wrote: »

You were asked what number not who. Post is delivered by address not by name.

Correct,that type of letter is put into delivery order by RM machines,posties only look at the number not the name now.

custardy

F_Bear wrote: »

Clearly has my name on it.



agreed, and postman will prob shred the rest of my mail if hes told off by the boss!



it needs to be but its an automated service, i'll activate it and see if theres any anomoly between actiavting mine and the OH's card

Well mistakes happen.
Like not understanding the difference between a name and house number.
Or using no instead of know.
Theres little chance of all your mail being shredded for making a minor complaint.
Of course you have yet to clarifiy if the address was correct.

F_Bear

Of course you have yet to clarifiy if the address was correct.

my mistake, it had my correct number on (and name)

societys_child

Oh dear, that "lady" who lives down the street at number 29 . . . I could be mistaken but she may may be the head of an international crime syndicate and your card has now been used to buy a shed load of 50" plasmas which at this moment are being sold on a street market in Azerbaijan . . .

Of course she could just be a friendly neighbour who realised the postie had made a mistake and took the trouble to hand deliver it to you, rather than write "not at this address" and bung it back in a postbox . .

. . . I wonder which it is . . . ?

pvt

societys_child wrote: »

rather than write "not at this address" and bung it back in a postbox . .

That would be incorrect.

I could understand if she wrote "not at No. 29" or "delivered to wrong address", but the correct action (assuming she didn't wish to hand it to the OP) would otherwise have been to just put the unopened letter back into a pillar box with nothing written on it at all and see if Postman Pat gets it right second time round.

In which instance postie and the OP would be none the wiser, and she could get back to her international crime syndicate activities all the sooner....

Horseunderwater

Since mail is sorted by machines for that sort of post, it will not have been the posties fault per say. It will have been done by post code written on the letter - I assume that OP lives in a large town or city. If it is in a rural area then yes it may well be down to the postie doing the sorting. My post gets sorted at my post office in my village each day, but they only have to do the post for just over 1000 homes locally. Most of it is pre sorted by machines - but some will be locally done. Oh and not everyone gets a letter etc every day.

meer53

F_Bear wrote: »

my mistake, it had my correct number on (and name)

So the postie made a mistake, which your kind neighbour rectified, rather than bunging it back in the postbox ?

I don't see the point of your post.

societys_child

pvt wrote: »

That would be incorrect.

I could understand if she wrote "not at No. 29" or "delivered to wrong address", but the correct action (assuming she didn't wish to hand it to the OP) would otherwise have been to just put the unopened letter back into a pillar box with nothing written on it at all and see if Postman Pat gets it right second time round.

In which instance postie and the OP would be none the wiser, and she could get back to her international crime syndicate activities all the sooner....

Yes indeed, it would be incorrect, I was referring to the generic response when people receive someone elses post

callum9999

Horseunderwater wrote: »

Since mail is sorted by machines for that sort of post, it will not have been the posties fault per say. It will have been done by post code written on the letter - I assume that OP lives in a large town or city. If it is in a rural area then yes it may well be down to the postie doing the sorting. My post gets sorted at my post office in my village each day, but they only have to do the post for just over 1000 homes locally. Most of it is pre sorted by machines - but some will be locally done. Oh and not everyone gets a letter etc every day.

It's incredibly unlikely that someone living 2 doors away has a different post code to you.

custardy

callum9999 wrote: »

It's incredibly unlikely that someone living 2 doors away has a different post code to you.

why not?
for one,the neighbour is an odd number vs the OPs even
postal sectors can go from one building to whole streets
however walk sequencing provides mail in frame order
So it doesnt matter how the postcode setor is laid out.
Its how the delivery frame is set up