Card from the postman...

[grahamw48]

Couldn't deliver the package because there is £1.50 excess postage to pay. :Erm:

Did I order anything ? NO

Am I expecting a valuable gift ? NO

Would anyone send me cash in a package ? NO.

You can bloody well keep it ! :mad:

[lordna]

This happened to me once and i paid the money only to find someone had sent me a card that was over the size for a normal 1st class stamp. Ironically, the person who sent it actually worked for the post office as a postman.

I think your right to let the post office keep it. They will just destroy it eventually.

[grahamw48]

It says on the card that they return to sender after 28 days.

So anyone who needs to know it has my phone number. :cwm25:

[Arthur Little]

Quite right, Graham; who knows ... :anerikke: ... might even have been from the 'Readers Digest' :biggrin: - "chancing their arm"!

[grahamw48]

Oh, I really LIKE the Readers Digest. It's just the lifetime of 'crap' that gets sent with it. :doh

Mum and dad got it every month, and to be fair, also acquired some excellent books through their book club. :smile:

[Arthur Little]

This happened to me once and i paid the money only to find someone had sent me a card that was over the size for a normal 1st class stamp.

......................................................... :yeahthat:'s certainly a "right royal (mail) rip~off :mad: ... considering so many greetings cards on sale in shops nowadays, tend to be of the LARGER variety.

[Arthur Little]

Oh, I really LIKE the Readers Digest. It's just the lifetime of 'crap' that gets sent with it. :doh

Yes ... so do I, Graham. Equally, :iagree: with the sentiments you've expressed so eloquently :icon_lol: regarding the (not altogether unjustified) notoriety they've acquired for sending out unsolicited material - e.g., the likes of the odd volume of their condensed books - [purportedly] on a "FREE TRIAL" basis. And you and I both know what that usually implies. :wink:

[grahamw48]

Yes....they've got you on the hook. :icon_lol:

[Dedworth]

At our sorting office if you take the card down they'll show you the item - you can then refuse it

[grahamw48]

Yes, same at ours Dedworth...just that they've moved the sorting office to some industrial estate in the middle of nowhere now. Don't know what OAPs without transport are supposed to do. :NoNo:

[Arthur Little]

...just that they've moved the sorting office to some industrial estate in the middle of nowhere now. Don't know what OAPs without transport are supposed to do. :NoNo:

Likewise with ours, Graham. It's now located over 3 miles from where we live at the opposite end of town ... meaning we're forced to either undertake two double bus trips to get there & back, or use "Shanks's Pony" - both of those options being much too time~consuming for my liking. :doh

[grahamw48]

Well Arthur, I figure if it was important enough, the sender would contact me and let me know. Otherwise, stuff it. :smile: