Royal mail can look for other "victims". A tool used for "Blackmail" The Royal Mail put a card through my letter box yesterday, (Saturday 13th December 2014)advising, "Unfortunately we can't deliver your item because there is a fee to pay". Upon closer examination, it seems that "The sender didn't pay the full postage", and Royal Mail are demanding a payment from me of £1.11 This "Fee" includes a £1 handling charge! The item in question, I know to be a Christmas card which probably exceeds the arbitrary size restrictions (measured by a rather crude template device) impose d by Royal Mail a couple of years back as a means for extorting even more money from the long suffering public. The "excess charge" of 11p is really neither here nor there, but to add a handling charge of £1 is really adding insult to injury. I have no objection to excess charges where the sender has either forgotte...
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Royal Mail making extra money. Royal Mail Large Letter Postage Template Size Guide We were handed a standard non delivery card yesterday by our postman. It read, "Unfortunately we cant deliver your item because there is a fee to pay". It is worth noting at this point, that the Post Office had already been paid some postage by the sender and was now demanding a further £1.09 (including handling fee) to deliver what was probably a card which did not quite fit into their little plastic template full of tiny slots to arbitrarily "measure" standard and non standard postings. Very apologetically, our postman explained that he had been given no information as to what it was, or where it had been postmarked. Remembering that we had been caught by the same little Post Office scam on two occasions last year, I rang the Royal Mail Dorchester Delivery Office and asked the question. I was informed, rather abruptly, that it looked like a card and was not postmarked...