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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: berryblack7 on April 11, 2012, 06:54 pm
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Hi fellow Silk roaders
I was told today by my vendor that my package ( a letter of ket) was sent with not enough postage on it..
It is UK TO UK and he said i may have to go to the post office to pick it up and pay the extra..
Im worried about this.. should i be suspicious? the vendor has lots of legit feedback but just worried of presenting myself to the post office to collect///WELL drugs!
Has this happened to anyone else?
I havent received a postage letter or anything, should i just go down to the local post office?
Help would be appreciated x
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Give them a call ask if they have received it if they have not ask for a call whent hey do. If you do not ask for a call it might just be sent to the return address.
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Thanks for your response.
I may have to do this.
Worried if the vendor put a fake return address it may spark caution, or he may have put a legit address which isnt him, in which case it could get delivered with my address on to someone who could shop me!! I dont know whether to ask for a refund and to ask for it to be sent out again. I hate when vendors do this, how irritating and frustrating
x
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I think it usually is the diligent ps worker doing their job and calling the house with a reg package. If it was found to be something bad, wouldn't they just do a cd? Otherwise why would they call and let the person pick it up since they wouldn't have the best chance if they knew the person supposed to receive would get suspicious? I've had a friend get a call from a ps worker when it was a strange/dif name on the package, and a half z of mol. The call receivers said yeah that's a friend of family visiting, and the post worker said it'd be out next delivery day. Got there no problem.
It would still def freak me out and I'd want someone to go check it, like a "roommate".
Anything ever come of it?
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i would count it as a loss. asking to recieve a call about it is sort of like an admission of guilt. idk about UK law but in the US this would remove any sort of plausible deniability
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I don't know which vendor you ordered from, and I'm sure you did your research, or ,and have received from this
vendor before, but, insufficient postage? WTF?!?
Besides worrying about, packaging, stealth and every other concern on the list, now you gotta worry about vendors posting the correct amount for postage, or there lack-of.
To add insult to injury, HE tells you what HE did wrong but what YOU can do to fix it.
Sometimes mail with insufficient postage is "Forwarded as a courtesy".
Hopefully that happens in this case.
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I don't know much of Royal mail procedures but in the US..it's arbitrary whether the USPS delivers a parcel with insufficient postage or RTS. It seems that when the postage due is a small amount they let it go through and try to collect the balance due from the addressee. If you have mail delivered to a residence or business by a postal carrier the they won't, hand it over until you pay. If you get mail at a PO box they will leave a form advising you of the amt due.
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I don't know much of Royal mail procedures but in the US..it's arbitrary whether the USPS delivers a parcel with insufficient postage or RTS. It seems that when the postage due is a small amount they let it go through and try to collect the balance due from the addressee. If you have mail delivered to a residence or business by a postal carrier the they won't, hand it over until you pay. If you get mail at a PO box they will leave a form advising you of the amt due.
EXACTLY, I had a vendor send a package (I'm usa) I was at home outside and as he hands me the the mail says, oh you have postage due. I didn't like the experience, but I paid the balance owed and closed the door. Hopefully they will treat you similarly.
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Why are people so sketched out about this? It happens millions of times each day with legitimate packages. There are much better ways to make sure the charges stick, just going and paying postage due isn't enough grounds for making that package yours. Anyone can send you anything with inadequate postage, any normal citizen would obviously go and pick it up.
Quit being so paranoid, put your big boy pants on and go get your shit.
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I've received things through Royal Mal before that have had insufficient postage (all legitimate things, like birthday cards my mad Aunt forgot to put a stamp on). I got a slip telling me to go to the sorting office and pay the postage. And that's what I did, because, ya know, any normal person would. It's more suspicious if you don't collect.
If you are really worried send in someone else to collect it for you (like your mum, gran, anyone who really does have plausible deniability).
As a warning, the things I've all received with insufficient postage seem to have taken a long time to reach me though. The birthday card from my mad Aunt came over a month late (I can't rule out that mad Aunt didn't send it late though).
I agree though, poor form on the vendors part!
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i was gonna say most people dont purposely leave stuff at the post office.
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picked it up fine from post office, paid the difference no probs, vendor even sent another gram out and had no idea he would , nice surprise when arrived home from workkk :)