General Chat

Eldrick our postie is realy nice fellow my hubby has known for years ,and my other mail that was opened was before he took the job
Jean have,nt got your cards as yet but also Liz Purple sent me two cards one birthday and one wedding anniversay the last one has,nt come and she posted them together,Hayley i do that type away and never look until someone tells me
well getting ready to celebrate my birthday and wedding anniversary with B.B.Q just hope it does not ralin wishing you all anice weekend
Dutchxx

Don´t think it´s the person who delivers the post who is to blame. It would be too obvious.
They just get the flak.

Unfortunately it's nothing new as it happened in years gone by too.

My Bil was a postman for many years (1960s onwards) and recently has been telling us of how traps were often set to catch dishonest postmen.
There was a case when a bag of mail was left behind a bush...reason given? he was too tired to walk any further. As you say Cynthia there'll always be rotten apples in every profession,but most are good,I know our postie is :-)

I'm with you Eldrick. :-D


We always give our postie a little gift at Christmas because we are grateful for what they do.


There are always 'horror' stories about the bad apples in each and every profession, but I don't think having a slit envelope arriving through one's door quite falls into the category of 'horror' to be honest.


It's idiotic for people to send coinage through the post.

We get a lot of post through, lots of parcels and have to say that Royal Mail do a sterling job with it, our post person is swapped quite often, but always very polite and cheery. Delivery times are good also, must be in the right place :-)

Our postie is a total gent. Would trust him with absolutely anything. Reading this you would think the post office is run by the kray twins and staffed by the population of wormwood scrubs.

But think about it. If a postie was going to steal money out of a letter, he is hardly going to then deliver the letter slit open and minus the money, is he. Or she. No doubt someone will come back and say 'ah, but it happened to a birthday card to my friends neighbors budgie'.

Somehow, I dont think so.

In Oz our mailboxes are usually at the end of the driveway, on the street.

a few years ago the postman/woman ran into ours & knocked it over (driving a motorbike). Our neighbour saw him/her!

Reported it to the post office. He/she denied it. We had to replace the mailbox.

He/she wasn't a very good postie ~ we used to find mail all over the front garden.

Joyce, pleased to hear that you have found out who it was from and what was in it. It's a shame that things like this are happening whether it's on the British or Dutch side.
Love, Sallie.xx

Hello Dutch....so sorry this has happened.

Take care

jude xx

We had a parcel opened and resealed, we think it was probably as it came into the country at customs. OH should have received a war film DVD from his son he actually got two very delicate bracelets. I can only assume they opened two parcels and then accidentally swapped the contents when replacing them. At least it was a legal opening.

lesson to everybody dont send anybody cash
cheques can be traced so useless to theives

Sad isn't it, once upon a time postmen and women were proud of their job and this rarely happened. Unfortunately now things have changed. Never send cash by post. I usually don't even send cheques these days. Have all the bank detals of grandchildren and children and cash is transferred. Not the same as opening an envelope and finding a lovely cheque though.

It is worth reporting it though as then the post office can track the sorting offices which are having mail affected.

Some years ago now,I had a knock from 2 suited gents,they explained they would like to use my address as a delivery one,they were genuine Royal Mail personel,

Next day they rang mid morning,,,,,any mail-?-NO,,,just after lunch time,,,,any mail yes.....was a birthday type envelope delivered ....NO,

the postman was took to court,,,,,he had been stealing Giros and birthday cards........so not all are honest to the job thats entrusted to them,its world wide,,,,,postman/postwomen do steal!

Ive sent card to Australia that never get there......but registered parcels never had one go missing or interfered with.

od dear - sticky finger is back

God knows Muffy....and before I stand accused it wasnt me :-D

Why on earth was the OP rr'd????????????? :-S

I thought Hayley was having one of psychic moments :-)

I had the same thing happen the other week.End had been sliced cleanely with a knife blade by the looks of it. I was really annoyed and upset as it was returned items from DVLA with very personal details on them includin NI numbers. I complained to Royal Mail who sent me compensation......Wait for it 6 postage stamps. If my numbers or details get usued illegally they will be paying out a lot more than that methinks :-|

spot on Rose

I am in such a hurry to type what I want to say I often leave out words

what I meant to say is ...

OMG I had a gut feeling you was going to tell us this....

This is happening more and more, I get many parcels delivered and latley nearly every one has been tampered with, usually the post office put them in a plastic bag and gives info if what to do if anything is missing, I remember quite a long time ago Joyce I sent you a card with a donation in and that was opened at your end, so its not a new thing just happening a lot more...
Jean x