I wouldn't open any mail if I were you. Not sure about Singapore's laws, but certainly in other countries opening other people's mail can lead to jail time if caught out.ozchick wrote:What happens to overseas mail that I post with my 'return to sender' scribbled on it?Like many of you on here, we get a lot of mail for the previous tenant, and this mail is from France mostly. If I return to sender, surely SG Post wouldn't send it back 'cos then who is paying for that expensive trip back to its origin?
Sometimes I open it and email the sender, and that helps. Good fun really. I practise my French with an apology for the errors, and they email back and thank me in French and tell me I'm just damned good at their lingo!
But just wondering if the ones I send back ever get there.....mm.....
Any reason you're quoting a UK Mail website?ksl wrote:It is the duty of the tenant, to notify the postal office of their forwarding address, there is a charge for this! Or return it to the post office, highly unlikely they will forward it on. If they do, they will bill the person and if there is the slightest chance they do not get there money, they will dump the mail. It is the tenants responsibility to notify the post office which is fairly logical, If they do not care, why should anyone else be expected to care.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/cont ... d=48100695
Actually yes there is! The UK sets a standard in mail delivery along with the rest of Europe, customer service being reasonable, rather than none existent, like on the singpost website! My point is that if you want mail sent on, you pay for it, it's that simple.carteki wrote:Any reason you're quoting a UK Mail website?ksl wrote:It is the duty of the tenant, to notify the postal office of their forwarding address, there is a charge for this! Or return it to the post office, highly unlikely they will forward it on. If they do, they will bill the person and if there is the slightest chance they do not get there money, they will dump the mail. It is the tenants responsibility to notify the post office which is fairly logical, If they do not care, why should anyone else be expected to care.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/cont ... d=48100695
Can't speak for Singpost.. but I know that in Australia, the post office (main mail distribution centre) sorts through tonnes of undelivered mail every year, including thousands of letters addressed to "santa" and "north pole"ksl wrote: Personally i think it is quite silly to expect the post office, to save your mail, if you have moved address and not notified the post office of your new address. It appears everyone is running away from bills in Singapore, they just disappear into thin air!
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ ... 31208.htmlAustralia Post keeps the undelivered items at its Mail Redistribution Centre in central Melbourne. The items that don't have the identifying details of the sender or the recipient are stored for between six and 12 months to give senders an opportunity to claim them. Items that are not claimed are auctioned to benefit charity.
Apparently... it's collected at least..intellectualsmuse wrote:We have a box close to our letterbox for "Returned Mail". Am assuming the stuff I put in it is Retuned to the Sender?
If you read through this story,.. you realize some people working for Singpost go the extra mile to make sure people get their mailAs he finishes with each block, he collects the returned mail — letters that failed to reach their intended addressees — and indicates on the envelope the reason for its non-delivery.
Yes, and this one I can confirm. Being apparently not extremely lucky with the senders we got a mail with missing unit No and IIRC without blk No delivered to our mbox.Splatted wrote: If you read through this story,.. you realize some people working for Singpost go the extra mile to make sure people get their mail
We surely all know about paying to have our mail forwarded on, but I'm speaking about those who don't pay it at all, or don't pay it for long enough.ksl wrote:It is the duty of the tenant, to notify the postal office of their forwarding address, there is a charge for this! Or return it to the post office, highly unlikely they will forward it on. If they do, they will bill the person and if there is the slightest chance they do not get there money, they will dump the mail. It is the tenants responsibility to notify the post office which is fairly logical, If they do not care, why should anyone else be expected to care.
I go on the presumption that the price of postage in Singapore is priced to factor in the cost of returning undelivered mail, among other things.ozchick wrote:I doubt that Sg post
would be sending overseas mail back to origin. Gonna ask them next time I find a post ofiice.
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