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custardy

pigpen wrote: »

The stealing of mail seems to rife in the Royal Mail.. they have 10's of thousands of parcels 'disappear' annually.

I now send everything recorded delivery.

One of the workers at our delivery office tried stealing a DS I had got for my daughter.. it was hidden in a filing cabinet rather than in the correct pigeon hole!

dont get all caught up on figures
those missing packets arent all stolen
you would be surprised at the level of packaging,lack of return addresses,wrong addresses etc


what do you think[STRIKE] recorded delivery[/STRIKE] signed for adds?

meritaten

signed for tells the postman that a human will be aware of whether the packet has been tampered with - if its done while 'in transit' there is usually an official sticker saying so. and tbh - some postmen are dishonest and if they feel there is money or valuables in the envelope will nick it - knowing that most people wont report it. Birthday cards are especially at risk - as that is where most people include money or gift cards. as I say I use jiffy bags well sealed - its really obvious if they have been tampered with.

another reason for using 'signed for' or recorded is that the postie knows that the item is expected/or that the sender wants to ensure it arrives - intact! I have never had a problem with mail using signed for when selling on ebay - before that I had to refund customers when the items they had purchased didn't arrive!

custardy

meritaten wrote: »

signed for tells the postman that a human will be aware of whether the packet has been tampered with - if its done while 'in transit' there is usually an official sticker saying so. and tbh - some postmen are dishonest and if they feel there is money or valuables in the envelope will nick it - knowing that most people wont report it. Birthday cards are especially at risk - as that is where most people include money or gift cards. as I say I use jiffy bags well sealed - its really obvious if they have been tampered with.

Lol,your logic makes no sense
How about signed for tells them there's something worth nicking and they take the whole item?

gayleygoo

"Signed for" postage just means you will have proof that the other person has received the item, which is useful if selling things online in case people try to tell you something didn't arrive, when it did. It is not to stop postmen from stealing things, as there are dozens, if not hundreds, of postal workers who could have the parcel pass through their hands and any one of them in theory could take it, not just your own postman.

RM takes internal theft very seriously and thieving post workers almost always do jailtime. It's a job like any other, why assume that the people who do it are more likely to steal than in any other business? From what DH tells me though, the ability for something to get lost or misplaced is much more likely, and that's what often happens missing parcels. He also says many envelopes are not suitable for the postal system and delivers several packets a day were the packaging is in pieces and stuff has possibly fallen out, but when this happens it's usually wrapped up and got a sticker on it to let you know.

It's unlikely that anyone official took the statue, it's illegal to open other people's post, but if there's a good reason to do so (usually to find an address to send it to if the original one is unreadable or has fallen off) only certain post workers are allowed to do this - they aren't allowed to just take stuff out because there's not enough postage :eek: if the envelope looks damaged the statue may have fallen out.