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  • Abi
    Abi Posts: 218 Forumite
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    Thanks just signed up for mine
  • thankz just signed up for mine
  • i signed up a while ago and it said first envelopes would be sent in july! so we will see!!!
  • Seakay
    Seakay Posts: 4,269 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    They seem to be getting less specific about the start date:

    "

    Thank you for registering with Freepost4u - the unique service that sends you free postage-paid envelopes straight to your home. We are planning to launch our first envelope over the summer - keep an eye on your letterbox for your first package of free envelopes! "
  • Hi

    Don't know if this has been posted before

    http://www.freepost4u.com/



    Homer
  • Steve_xx
    Steve_xx Posts: 6,979 Forumite
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    There's something not right about this.

    Freepost is a service that is free to the sender, but the tab is normally picked up at the delivery point. So how can this work? If I use one of their envelopes to send my Mum a letter, then in theory she will have to pay to receive it. I can't see Royal Mail swallowing this...................
  • RacyRed
    RacyRed Posts: 4,930 Forumite
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    I gave it a go and got an email saying this
    A huge amount of people have registered for our free envelope offer. As a result we are now staggering the dates which we send out envelopes to new subscribers. You will start to receive your free envelopes from January 08.

    Hmmm, seems like on of those things that has you sign up, then hopes you will forget, or get so fed up with the junk mail you de-register before you get the freeby.
    My first reply was witty and intellectual but I lost it so you got this one instead :D
    Proud to be a chic shopper
    :cool:
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    im going to be honest and say this is a fake.
    basically freepost envelopes are generally used for returns. the way it works is the delivery office for the return address sorts these letters seperatly and counts/weighs them and charges the company to their account. then these are sent on delivery as normal.
    that delivery office only has access to the set accounts for their delivery office
    if you could use the envelopes for anywhere then they couldnt be charged. the only way they could do it is prepaid envelopes as in having proper postage on the envelope but again not really practical in this sense
  • Adzha
    Adzha Posts: 2,192 Forumite
    RacyRed wrote: »
    Envelopes from Jan 2008
    I got the same.
    But with spam in the subject it was put in my spam folder :confused:
  • Signed up for this at least 6 months ago and never recieved any envelopes :)
    'They only had one cow!'
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