On the back of the ongoing counterfeit stamp debacle. Although they have stopped fining innocent people for the time being. This has always been an issue, long before counterfeit stamps. Someone sends you an item of post, but they don’t think that they should pay the extortionate postal costs so they don’t bother putting a stamp on or try to pay less postage than is required. The intended recipient is the one who gets charged the postage. The person who sends it gets away with it, simply because it’s Royal Mails rules. Charge the person who is receiving it, why? Here’s the answer, the person who has sent it has normally intentionally not paid the correct postage. If Royal Mail go back to them, they will just refuse and deny they sent the item. However the recipient gets a surcharge card and can view the item but only take the item if they can prove their ID and pay the surcharge fee. These items won’t look like a bank statement and they won’t have a return address on mostly. Giving the intended recipient no clue as to what it could be. Naturally we are curious and theirs an item of mail with your name on but you have to pay the post costs and the surcharge fee. You know deep down it’s going to be an absolute waste of money but you’ve made the effort to call down for this item, can you resist leaving and not knowing what it is or who it’s from. From my experience working in a delivery office, most can’t resist and nearly everyone complains when they purchase the item. It’s nothing more than an elaborate scam.
With the counterfeit stamps they were charging the recipient £5 to receive the item. The sender who purchased the counterfeit stamps gets away with it. The recipient gets charged because Royal Mail know there never going to get money out of the sender but they will out of the curious general public who are in effect the real victims. There is no other operation that does this, they don’t chase the perpetrator they try to punish the victim to redeem the revenue. It’s been going on for years and millions of people are surcharged every year because the person who sent the item never paid or underpaid the postage or re-used a stamp or put a counterfeit stamp on their mail. I know Royal Mail lose thousands every year through unpaid and underpaid postage, but their system allows it to happen yet they seem to be powerless to prevent it.
We are soon to be approaching one year in business, not one surcharge, not one counterfeit stamp, we’ve never asked for money off a recipient of our mail and parcel network. And in 10 or 20 years time it will still be the case, and that’s because our system doesn’t allow for it to happen and we are barely a year old compared to a 500 year old service. Next time you get a surcharge card I can guarantee over 95% of the time it is junk mail, don’t let your curiosity take over. It’s like receiving a call and them hanging up as soon as you answer, your curiosity wants to know who it was? What do they want? But you know deep down it’s a scam and a waste of time. It’s the same with mail. If they haven’t paid the postage, it’s because they are chancing.
Not just a postman.
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