Royal mail fraud ?

DCFC79

Get the sender to give you the 2.77 and you go and collect it simples.

[Deleted User]

I had an item from seller on ebay with this problem. Paid the money (including one pound admin) and then the seller refunded the charge.

Person sending might have got the postage wrong (like with ebay/amazon, they can weigh the item, get it wrong, whatever and do a royal mail printed label, then just put it in the post box). Royal mail then just send it on to you expecting you to pay. If they send it back to sender, its more work, so they don't.

Its not royal mail fraud. The correct postage wasn't paid on the item. Nothing fraudulent about that except on part of the seller maybe. Its inconvenient for you, yes, but not fraud.

xHannahx

The only person in the wrong is the sender. Why don't you fly off the wall at them rather than Royal Mail who are acting correctly.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

were you expecting a package,

have you maybe won a prize,

if not, forget it.

GreatBeyond

Has it been a recent change in attitudes of people that is something happens where money is concerned that they don't really understand the immediate response is not to try and find out what the story is, rather just get raging and accuse people/businesses of being fraudulent?

Dinky_Girl

Put return to sender with the address it has come from (providing you know who sent it) make them feel guilty for not paying the correct postage!

arcon5

Your rights....

Well the debt isn't enforceable against you as the recipient, so you have the legal right to not pay the fee.

Their rights....

They have the right to hold goods in lien where the person whom entered in to the contract failed to fulfil some of their side by not paying the full fare.

Their solution....

To give you the recipient the opportunity to retrieve the parcel uninterrupted. Failing that they will then return to the sender where possible.

How you can proceed....

Refuse to pay and RM will take up the issue with the sender, whom was the one they entered in to a contract for delivery services anyway.
Pay, be graceful, take it up with the sender.

Your attitude....

A disgrace.

pathtofreedom

This has happened to me a couple of times, you can ask to see the parcel, you can't open it or anything but by doing this you might be able to tell who sent it. One time I recognised the handwriting so new it would have been a mistake, the other time I didn't so I didn't pay and never knew what was in it.

mattyprice4004

This has got to be a wind up - have you never seen a post box before? Last time I checked, they weren't smart enough to stop you putting underpaid posted items in them.

Pollycat

Gold_Anaconda wrote: »

This is a textbook example of extortion/blackmail

Lordy! Lordy! Please save us from barrack-room lawyers. :rotfl::rotfl:

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

This has got to be a wind up - have you never seen a post box before? Last time I checked, they weren't smart enough to stop you putting underpaid posted items in them.

I agree.
Let's just be thankful that the kids go back to school tomorrow.