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by **JoM** » 05 Feb 2020, 19:08

I remember being taught all of that so that's exactly as it is Frank. The printed postage label is top right, where a stamp would otherwise be, the Signed For sticker is below that and the address is clearly written in the middle. On the back, and what makes it even more ridiculous is that I actually wrote "sender:" followed by my name and address.

I called Royal Mail and the woman I spoke to was passing the blame onto the Post Office. As I told her, the PO just sold me the service, RM (and their system) are the ones who've failed to read the envelope correctly and delivered a Signed For letter not just to the wrong address but failed to get it signed for (and if they've gone by my tiny written address on the rear then that side has no postage on it).

by **Workingman** » 05 Feb 2020, 19:34

Sorry, Jo, I wasn't suggesting that you had done it incorrectly, just saying that there is a way it is supposed to be .

I agree, it is a RM mess up. Registered mail is usually hand sorted as the machines cannot see a 'stamp' on the item. Stamps have an invisible code in the shiny strip to denote class - 1st or 2nd or cost - so it's up to the person doing the sorting to put it in the right slot / bag. Even if it gets in the wrong bag at the start it still has to go through other sorting points to get it to the local delivery office, so plenty of opportunities to redirect it. And when it finally gets to the local delivery office it has to get to the right postie's bag (another chance to see what's wrong) and that postie should then have the brains to see that it has gone round in a circle and needs to go to the recipient on the front and not the sender on the back.

Ever so many of us feel your pain - you are not alone.

by **JoM** » 05 Feb 2020, 21:40

Oh don't worry Frank, i took it the way you meant it :lol:

And....if the postie had actually done his job properly and knocked on the door to get it signed he'd have been told it was at the wrong address.

It's amazing thinking back to the useful things we were taught at school, how to address and envelope and how to write a letter...not things that are often done at home though now. We then put what we'd been taught into action by pairing up with a class at a nearby school and being given the name of a child who we had to send a letter to. I was pen pals for years with the girl I wrote to, she only lived 2 miles away yet we never met :lol:

Although I suppose we may have done without knowing.

by **meriad** » 06 Feb 2020, 10:29

Crumbs Jo, that's really bad, especially frustrating because it's going to be hard to complain about it because everyone is going to blame each other. But I'd be livid!

by **Workingman** » 07 Feb 2020, 16:31

I have improved my memory with just a bowl of beef and veg soup.

I was having the soup and multi-tasking trying to repair a micro SD card that had stopped working. I accidentally dropped the SD card and could not find it anywhere. It was not on the floor or under the lappy or the wireless keyboard or in a fold in my jumper - it had just disappeared!

So, following Homer Simpson's advice of "If at first you don't succeed, give up" I gave up looking and went back to my soup. I was slurping the last drops from the bowl when I felt a rather hard bit going down.... and then it clicked where the SD had gone. :shock: