Money Moral Dilemma: Should I spend someone else's Clubcard vouchers?

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jjay13 wrote: »

According to the Postal Services Act 2000, it is illegal to open mail that is not addressed to you, unless you can show reasonable excuse.

To correct your misquote:

A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him.

Note the requirement of intention as well as lack of reasonable excuse and incorrectly delivered.

Mail arriving at your own home, regardless of addressee name, could also be argued as correctly delivered.

biosonik

Having worked for the Clubcard department in the past, and with friends still there, I can assure you, you do not need the Clubcard to spend the vouchers in-store. If a staff member is being difficult, it's purely because they're a jobsworth. Use self service.

I get Clubcard vouchers in someone else's name. I spend them all the time. I know the system inside out. I know Tesco doesn't care. They'll bring in a system soon to stop this but it ain't here yet.

To answer your question, Yes you certainly should spend them. Tesco will reimburse the customer when they contact the Clubcard helpline. The boogeyman will not come knocking at your door asking for them back. It's a win-win for everyone apart from Tesco.

Mojisola

jjay13 wrote: »

According to the Postal Services Act 2000, it is illegal to open mail that is not addressed to you, unless you can show reasonable excuse.

That's not the way the law is phrased.

You can open post unless you are intending to act to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse.

browny5678

I had a similar situation where the old owner of my house didn't get their mail forwarded, they would turn up unannounced from time to time to collect it. On one occasion the guy was very concerned about getting hold of his mail as it contained his tax disc, as he hadn't even bothered to change the address his car was registered to! After about a year of this, and having googled return addresses to discover that many of the letters were from debt collectors, I spent a good while writing return to sender on all the ones I had, and bunged them back in the postbox.

A few weeks later he turned up to collect, and I told him I'd sent it all back to the senders. He seemed to think this was fair, but 6 hours after he called round, I had another knock on the door, which was the police!! I assume the guy had had time to stew (and maybe have a few pints), and he rang the police on me and told them I said I'd thrown his mail away, but actually I had been stealing his clubcard vouchers! The WPC was sympathetic when I explained that actually I'd put everything back in the postbox as I had no forwarding address and was sick of the unannounced visits, but just to say, although I didn't make any use of his vouchers myself, if someone accuses you of it to the police they will follow it up!

On the plus side, he never dared show his face to pick up any more mail after that!!

Christine_Wicker

You will be unable to spend the vouchers unless you have the clubcard as they ask to see it at the till

susi360

I have given Tesco vouchers to my children's school and to be used for charity raffle prizes, and they were able to spend them, so I don't think you do need to produce a card.

justjoanne_2

I know how you feel. I am getting post for at least three previous tenants - and I think most of them are demands for payment. I am tempted to open them - after all this time - but I send them back to the sender.

I did get fed up of Sainsbury's sending one of them lots of offers - but never sending me any - so I did open one pack and got in touch with Sainsbury's about this. They thanked me, took him off this address, and gave me £5 of nectar points to thank me.

bobbob52

I think you'll find it's not a crime to not have your mail redirected BUT it is a crime to open someone else's mail.

Mojisola

bobbob52 wrote: »

I think you'll find it's not a crime to not have your mail redirected BUT it is a crime to open someone else's mail.

BUT it isn't.

jenny_wise

No, simple as that. Return "not known at this address"