On Tuesday 06 October 2009 23:31:20 Ian Eiloart wrote: > On 6 Oct 2009, at 23:16, Tim Morley wrote: > > On 6 Oct 2009, at 23:05, Ian Eiloart wrote: > >> Deliberately using the wrong postcode > >> would add even more to their costs. But, make sure you use a postcode > >> for an address that bears no resemblance to the correct address. > > > > That raises the question of Royal Mail's obligation (or otherwise) to > > deliver wrongly addressed mail. It would be easy enough for them to > > just return any misaddressed mail to the sender, although I suppose > > even that would cost them more than just being able to deliver it > > normally. > > They do go to great efforts to deliver mail that's wrongly addressed. > And they have an obligation to deliver mail if they can. Each sorting > office has a team dedicated to trying to find the target for > ambiguously addressed mail. For example, if you omit the house number, > they'll try looking up the addressee's name in the phone book. > > I've seen mail posted in Cambridge New Zealand, misdirected to the UK, > which I've directed back to Cambridge, New Zealand. Both towns have > Montague Road's, apparently. >
A story; a package sent to me in Australia for Christmas missed me at the address the sender had for me. It got forwarded to another address, where it landed not long after I moved on; I think there was another step in this stage. Eventually, the post office in Yaraka, Qld. got it. I had said I was likely to be in Longreach for a while; so they sent it there. In fact, I wasn't, and after some time the Longreach posties returned it to the sender's address, in West Yorkshire, where I received it several months after my return, the front of the parcel being completely covered with labels, notes, etc (from which I was able to work out the history involved).
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