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[Misc] Missing cash sent in the post
- Thread starter TheDuke
- Start date
Should have used Monopoly money.
el punal
Well-known member
Sorry to say but your first sentence is correct. I worked for Royal Mail for 17 years and, yes, the vast majority of staff were decent, honest and hard working souls. But, as with any large organisation, there will always be bad apples. One of the unfortunate traits of dishonesty (nicking stuff!) within Royal Mail was the stealing of credit cards and cash enclosed within birthday/Christmas cards.
Any item posted will go through a system that involves numerous staff handling that item - the postman collecting the mail from the post box, the sorting office staff emptying the bag for processing, the item of mail then sorted automatically or manually for forwarding to the correct postal area section within the office, then item bagged (with other mail) and transported to the relevant postal area overnight. The item then arrives at the recipient's postal area's sorting office (i.e. BN, or GU, or PO, etc) and is then forwarded on to the relevant local delivery office which is then sorted into the appropriate "walk" or the delivery postman's round. The item is then delivered to the addressed household.
So you see, within the system several people would have access to that item of mail. As I said earlier the vast majority of staff would have diligently processed the mail with no problem and the item would have been safely delivered. The big but in all of this is that to most posties we would recognise a birthday card which had something extra enclosed (money) and the comment would generally be that whoever posted it is stupid/naive/ too trusting. The rule was always if something is valuable or important send it special delivery, guaranteed or recorded delivery. That way your precious cargo is tracked all the way and if "lost" you would be recompensed.
HalfaSeatOn
Well-known member
My mum always sends cash with birthday cards. Last one arrived in a plastic bag with envelope opened up. Needless to say the money.....was still in it. Big thumbs up to the postal handlers on this occasion.
Shouldn't laugh but my elderly Mum (96) has regularly made up different birth dates to try and avoid being security compromised. Unfortunately it all went wrong when she needed to login to her Nectar account; having forgotten her password they demanded her birth date to get it back, and after many, many attempts to guess it we gave it up and ordered a new card!
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I've received birthday cards with a slit down the side of the envelope (not marked as damaged) but fortunately, there hadn't been any money inside.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
The moral of the story is give less lose less 
Keith the Kipper
Well-known member
Should there have been money in my season ticket renewal pack ?
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
Counting down to the [MENTION=1416]Ernest[/MENTION] thread....
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
How do you know there hadn't been any money inside? Why would you ask the sender if money was inside if it arrived with no money inside? The only way you would probably know is if the sender asked if you got the money. If the sender is that worried about the money getting nicked why would they send the money by post anyway.
Raleigh Chopper
New member
Yep, me, last Christmas, left it so late I really had no choice but could have sent cheques I suppose, it even crossed my mind when I posted them but hoped it would be OK.
6 cards sent, 3 with money in, 3 without.
Guess which 3 didn't make it.
The 3 without money made it ok.
Royal Mail are a bunch of thieving *****.
And I told them so as well.
No compensation in any circumstance apparently.
6 cards sent, 3 with money in, 3 without.
Guess which 3 didn't make it.
The 3 without money made it ok.
Royal Mail are a bunch of thieving *****.
And I told them so as well.
No compensation in any circumstance apparently.
bWize
Well-known member
- Nov 6, 2007
- 1,682
I have had at least half a dozen of my letters tampered with over the years (I see you live in Arundel as well) so I wouldn't write it off being local. One of the local posties was sacked for it a few years back and I believe it was pretty well known tampering amongst a small group of them at local post office went on. Saying that it was probably 5 years ago now but it doesn't surprise me.
Geestar
New member
Use to send English pounds back to Oz....not allowed to do that anymore
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- Thread starter
- #37
I am the PRAT, as all you have told me, who sent birthday dosh tru the post. However, a little bit of heart-warming news. The birthday card arrived, a full week late, to our nephew, with the full £70 squid intact. Is this a case of the tea-leaf getting pangs of conscience, probably having read the tale of woe on NSC? Just so chuffed that my trust in our posties wasn't completely shattered..... Ernest!!!!
That's almost what happened. I heard of YOUR story and got a TIP off on one of the culprit's accomplices . I tracked him DOWN and threatened to cut OFF his sausage if he didn't send the cash.
exKT17
Well-known member
Use Amazon/other online gift vouchers.