Royal Mail advice...

id complain, someones not doing there job right, postie prob didnt bother with signature because it hadnt been recorded at counters anyhow.

[jamesterror]

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

id complain, someones not doing there job right, postie prob didnt bother with signature because it hadnt been recorded at counters anyhow.

Yeh indeed, I'd do the same.

Worse risk if your not covered and lose out all together.

I tend to use private courier rather than RM now for parcels. (www.parcels2go.com)

[embee]

I wouldn't ever ever ever send cash by post. Why would anyone need to send cash in this day and age?

Post Office/Mail practices do sometimes give the impression of being dodgy (note I said "give the impression", no accusations).

I once made a complaint using the on-line service. Our post was being delivered by a variety of oriental/asian/eastern european/african youngsters wandering around with handfuls of letters apparently putting them through doors totally at random.
I received a reply saying that staff at the local office had been appropriately "retrained". Never happened again. It's sometimes worth complaining, at least powers that be in the complaints dept get an idea of what is going on and where.

Leave it be and let the guy keep his job . Anyway I`m glad you got the cash I sent you , when do I get my Illegal goods Baph ?

Originally Posted by jamesterror

Yeh indeed, I'd do the same.

Worse risk if your not covered and lose out all together.

I tend to use private courier rather than RM now for parcels. (www.parcels2go.com)

i didnt say this but, CITY LINK ARE VERY GOOD TOO

Originally Posted by embee

I wouldn't ever ever ever send cash by post. Why would anyone need to send cash in this day and age?

The person in question (sender) doesn't have a bank account, and for reasons I won't go into, would rather not have one.

I also feel I'd better state that the cash received is in no way dodgy/illegal. I know how the above reads, but still.

Originally Posted by embee

It's sometimes worth complaining, at least powers that be in the complaints dept get an idea of what is going on and where.

+1.

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

Leave it be and let the guy keep his job . Anyway I`m glad you got the cash I sent you , when do I get my Illegal goods Baph ?

Send me cash if you want.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anyone should be sacked over this - I really can't even be bothered complaining myself.

I just think that, as embee said, someone should know that things have screwed up.

I know Baph but some posties tend to do people a favour in a way by saving you the hassle of going to the office to get it rummaged out of a big old pile and signed for . If it had gone missing and not turned up anyway or was removed from your premises in some way then you are covered , so no harm no foul eh

special delivery and registered post are very good services for sending money and are fully insured, Royal Mail pride there selfs on these services and take it very seriously if things don't go to plan.

just an example - we found a special delivery (next day) item in our office which had missed dispatch (north west midlands mail centre) this item did infact have to be delivered in the north wales region, Royal Mail sent a van and a driver the whole journey just for this one letter.

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

If it had gone missing and not turned up anyway or was removed from your premises in some way then you are covered , so no harm no foul eh

You haven't read kwak's post have you?

It was sent Recorded Delivery. I know the sender went into a post office (I know which post office too, but that's not the point), and asked for it to be insured up to the value of £x due to the fact it contains cash.

I know how much they paid for this to be sent, which would include payment for insurance.

According to Kwak, Recorded Delivery is a signiture, it doesn't insure the goods contained at all.

So I wouldn't of been covered if it hadn't arrived, but the sender still paid for that cover.

It might be me being overly suspicious, but if the counter staff that initially took the package from the sender didn't pull the barcode off to record the transaction properly, why didn't they do this? Did they conciously over-charge the sender? Or was it simply an oversight?