Sender should pay extra postage charge
The day after my underpaid postage letter hit the Mailbox page ("Postal penalties are just not on", Mailbox, January 9) I receive another card – this time demanding £1.50.
As far as I know, you can look at the front of the letter and either you can pay or refuse it.
What if you cannot work out who it is from from the outside and there's no clear postmark from the sorting office it started from?
If we paid the fine and opened it and it turned out not to be what you were waiting for, why can't we get a refund?
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The new rules should have been that all letters and parcels should have the sender's address on the reverse and payment of excess postage should be made by them.
After all, the sender knows how important the mail is to them and whether to pay for it or not, rather than those at the destination address.
Yvonne Ballard, South Wigston.
Comments
by Lordpostie
Thursday, January 17 2013, 8:02PM
“If a letter is posted from 1 place then arrives at its destination and is found to be underpaid is the item then returned back to the sender for correct postage thus using the postal system twice should they be charged accordingly. Totally unworkable..although all post should have a return address on it...for that jut incase time”
by Just_Saying
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 4:09PM
“Quite, Eastonian.
Yvonne's suggestion above would be unworkable.
What would Yvonne want the PO to do with a letter addressed to her with no 'from' address ?”
by Eastonian
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 2:07PM
“In an ideal world the sender should put the correct postage on the item being sent rather than trying to defraud the Post Office.”