OK, stupid I hear you cry. Send it registered or recorded... you are right. However. The times post has got lost in the post must be microscopic. So.... last week my wife sends £70 to our grandson within his birthday card. It never arrived. Since then we've heard similar tales of non-delivery when cash has been involved. Is all this purely co-incidental or is there a way of 'flagging' if there's money in a sealed envelope. Or.... the fact that there is an obvious large amount of post on a particular day suggest birthdays and possible raw dosh within. Is this just unlucky or is there something more sinister? All the 'posties' I know are great guys/girls, so we're in a quandary. Any thoughts or any other similar stories?
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[Misc] Missing cash sent in the post
- Thread starter TheDuke
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Envelopes with cards in are obvious. Envelopes with cards in shout of a possibility of cash. In this day and age of Paypal and instant money transfers via online bank accounts why would anyone take the risk ?
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- #3
I agree but this little chap doesn't have a bank account and we wanted him to have the joy of opening his card with money in it. As I said it was, on reflection, stupid but surely trust must come in here somewhere.
pearl
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did you get a proof of posting?
KZNSeagull
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When we were in SA my Dad always insisted on sending my kids cash for their birthdays from the UK. He always sent it seperately from the card in an envelope with a letter inside. They always turned up which is pretty impressive considering the amount of stuff that goes missing in the SA postal system. But there is really no need to do it nowadays.
Brian Fantana
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If it was just sent using a standard 1st or 2nd class stamp, this makes no difference. It won't be eligible for any compensation.
Weststander
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You have my sympathies, but unfortunately a signifcant chunk of society is (criminally) light fingered given the slighest opportunity.
Less exciting for the recipient but only send by cheque or faster payment to the parent.
Less exciting for the recipient but only send by cheque or faster payment to the parent.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
If you really must send cash by post, then send it by Special Delivery. Costs more but full compensation if the letter is lost/damaged etc.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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studio150
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It may of course not be the postman, the card could be lost in the system, or delivered to the wrong address where a householder has taken the money.
Paging [MENTION=1416]Ernest[/MENTION]
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That's such a shame. I always feel our posties are a British institution and honest to the core. Naive from Arundel.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Sure it wasn't an issue with the card being overweight due to the money inside, or too big or with a birthday badge attached that would make it too thick for the stamps value? Royal Mail can be pretty pernickety about that kind of thing now that they've been privatised. Not sure what their rules are about delivering things with insufficient postage on, but I've had stuff go astray/not be delivered where I've just slapped a couple of first class stamps on and hoped for the best. Nowadays if I'm in any doubt about the weight or dimesnsions of an envelope, I go to the post office and get them to make the call on the correct postage.
- Feb 23, 2013
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Anytime people have sent me cash in the post it has always gone missing. Sometimes the envelope turns up in a Royal Mail plastic bag apologising for the damage and instructing me to report anything that I think is missing. I have no proof that there was ever any cash in there so that’s that. I then have to inform the customer who sent it that the money didn’t turn up and they still owe me. Only the person that nicked the money is smiling.
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
The safest way would be to transfer the money to mum or dad's bank account to they can withdraw the cash. Send the card unsealed in another envelope address to mum or dad so they can open it, put the cash in the card envelope and seal it.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Or the Grandson is already a bit of a criminal genius, pocketed the money, then told everyone he didn't get anything...
AmexRuislip
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Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Come on Enrest, this is right up your straße.
pearl
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Yeah, maybe it required a Large Letter stamp, it may still turn up
shame about their birthday though. I always put birthday cards in a second (brown) envelope .... then it looks like a bill
Hillian1
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Interesting fact:
When the Cullinan Diamond was sent to England a big show was put on about how it was being transported in a strong box in the safe of an Ocean Liner.
It was actually sent by post.
When the Cullinan Diamond was sent to England a big show was put on about how it was being transported in a strong box in the safe of an Ocean Liner.
It was actually sent by post.