Moving and the Royal Mail

picklepick

You don't need to put stamps on forwarded post.

custardy

picklepick wrote: »

You don't need to put stamps on forwarded post.

So it should simply be done for free?
given that many letters RM deliver are delivered at a loss.
how do you think delivering them twice works out?

picklepick

custardy wrote: »

So it should simply be done for free?
given that many letters RM deliver are delivered at a loss.
how do you think delivering them twice works out?

Not sure why you're singling my reply out when two other people also said the same thing?
I just cross out the address and write a forwarding address, if I know it, or return to sender if I don't. I'm not paying to forward someone's post who wasn't clever enough to tell the sender that they've moved. If Royal Mail want to charge the recipient, that's up to them.

custardy

picklepick wrote: »

Not sure why you're singling my reply out when two other people also said the same thing?
I just cross out the address and write a forwarding address, if I know it, or return to sender if I don't. I'm not paying to forward someone's post who wasn't clever enough to tell the sender that they've moved. If Royal Mail want to charge the recipient, that's up to them.

i didnt realise I had to select every reply in a thread. is it a new rule?
As for RM not charging,yet another one of the juxtapositions of a regulated 'service' being asked to turn a profit.

Buzby

Their service is not worth the money - as it all hangs on the local postman remembering to redirect. Also add that the RM will ALSO advise the TVLRO, Govt Departments, Credit Reference Agencies (it's all in the small print),

I can think of better waus of wasting money!

picklepick

So should people just bin it?

custardy

picklepick wrote: »

So should people just bin it?

why not?



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picklepick

It just never occurred to me not to fwd before. I'll just bin it from now on then.

bazzyb

custardy wrote: »

So it should simply be done for free?
given that many letters RM deliver are delivered at a loss.
how do you think delivering them twice works out?

It doesn't really matter what anybody thinks, if there is no additional charge there is no additional charge. Royal Mail is not a charity so why pay additional costs for something that is not charged for?

By the way, it is not done 'for free' - the costs for forwarding mail are built into the base rate which the regulator sets. Likewise it is also built into the base for the DSA prices.

olly300

Ivana_Tinkle wrote: »

We had the same problem as you and didn't manage to find a way round it. In the end we we had no choice but to leave a load of labels with our new address and ask our buyer to forward our post (and be really careful about racking our brains to make sure we'd told everyone important about our change of address). Three months on, he hasn't bothered to forward one single item! Words cannot express how much I resent cleaning the house for the lazy ***!

The way to encourage someone to forward your mail is to pop over a couple of times over a 3 month period when they are likely to be in and ask for your mail.

The labels are actually for when Royal Mail doesn't do the redirection correctly. If you have set up a redirection and most of your post doesn't end up at your previous address then the new occupants won't be soo p*ssed in redirecting your mail.