The sender did not pay enough postage - so I pay?

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Hey all,

So, had a random delivery card through the post saying "the sender has not paid enough postage.. please pay to have the item delivered", and it got me thinking..

Why am I forced to pay for this mistake? Ok, it's not earth shattering (£1.32) but surely if they didn't pay enough the sender should foot the bill. They (RM) have his/her details, so it seems a bit weird how it lands on me to sort it out.

Someone explain :confused:
 
If you don't pay, they'll return it to the sender - if it's on the envelope or whatever - and then they can send it again.

If you pay, it's down to you to chase the sender.
 
What annoys me is having to go to my local sorting office to collect it - it's open something like Monday-Wednesday 7am till 11am. Thankfully recently they've started opening for a couple of hours on a Saturday now, think it's 10-12 or something. Before that it was really hard to actually get there to collect it!
 
This annoyed me once recently. Got a card saying i have to go and pay to collect the letter due to the sender not paying enough postage. Wasn't sure what it could be, went along and paid about £1.50 and when i got home and opened it, it was some randon unsolicited junk mail :mad:
 
One of my colleagues made a mistake when sending out Xmas cards the year before last , not putting stamps onto all of them.

My customers weren't best pleased when they had to pay a £1 admin charge + postage cost to get their card.
 
Im a postie and you should see the amount of letters that get held back due to underpaid postage especially at Christmas in my office alone thousands a week.
 
EVH said:
They (RM) have his/her details, so it seems a bit weird how it lands on me to sort it out.
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How do you know they have his details? You often don't need to put your details on something you send, so the system has to be designed with this in mind.
 
EVH said:
They (RM) have his/her details, so it seems a bit weird how it lands on me to sort it out.
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They might do in this particular instance but many times they probably won't, unless it's either franked (with a business reference number/whatever identifying mark is used) or they've put a senders name/address on it then the Royal Mail are unlikely to have a clue who it is that sent it. Therefore in most circumstances it's going to be easier (or indeed the only possible option) for them to go to the recipient and request the money. I'd suspect in a lot of situations curiosity wins out and people will simply pay up.
 
I worked for RM and I was suprised at how many letters didn't have the correct postage, some with no stamps at all! Cheeky gits.

Always found it funny when people would address a letter to a persons name with no other details - I'm sure the postie knows who he is and where he lives! :D
 
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