sending on a letter

WaxiesDargle

Hi

I'm not sure where to put this so I arrived here!

I have just received a letter for my daughter who hasn't lived here for years...do I have to put a stamp on to send it to her address?

cheers

snoozer

No, so long as it isn't opened, just cross out your address and write hers on it.

WaxiesDargle

thank you snoozer

System

snoozer wrote: »

No, so long as it isn't opened, just cross out your address and write hers on it.

I never knew that! Ive got a letter sitting in my drawer for my brother. He's not lived here for 35+years. I can redirect it to my Mother as I don't know his address and i'm in no rush to see my Mother either.

allybee101

Apparently if it's not a Royal Mail stamped letter you might need to put on a stamp (i.e if the franking label is "UKMail" or similar). So if it's a handwritten letter with stamp or a Royal Mail pre-paid envelope it's free.
For the other type, large companies buy their post envelopes through courier companies and therefore not Royal Mail. RM can apparently choose to charge the recipient for insufficient postage on these type of envelopes. So you can put a stamp on these if you don't want the recipient to incur the fee (about £1.20 I think).

imho

Trouble is the letter when it goes through the post office gets scanned and puts little dots on the envelope.If you put wrong address and put your daughters address it will still come back to you because of the little dots.
My postman explained this after twice i got a letter to me that was not my address and i was posting back in the post box saying wrong address.

custardy

allybee101 wrote: »

Apparently if it's not a Royal Mail stamped letter you might need to put on a stamp (i.e if the franking label is "UKMail" or similar). So if it's a handwritten letter with stamp or a Royal Mail pre-paid envelope it's free.
For the other type, large companies buy their post envelopes through courier companies and therefore not Royal Mail. RM can apparently choose to charge the recipient for insufficient postage on these type of envelopes. So you can put a stamp on these if you don't want the recipient to incur the fee (about £1.20 I think).

The Fee is £1 plus 2nd class postage cost(or deficit) exluding add on services like Special Delivery.
RM cannot penalise DSA letters,it makes no difference.
(they will charge business to business redirections though)
However I would expect this ridiculous scenario to end soon.
people malign the cuts in service but expect multiple deliveries for one postage cost

imho wrote: »

Trouble is the letter when it goes through the post office gets scanned and puts little dots on the envelope.If you put wrong address and put your daughters address it will still come back to you because of the little dots.
My postman explained this after twice i got a letter to me that was not my address and i was posting back in the post box saying wrong address.

All it takes is to scribble through the routing barcodes

imho

Yeah but i diDnt know that when a letter got delivered to my address that wasnt even remotely my post code oR address.I gave it back to postman after getting it back twice