How do you handle a known mis-delivery?

[Gold Fox]

I am on different walks, more or less, every day ... and I missdelivered ALL the time .... I just turn blind eye ...and ignore it ...and many time deny it.

[krussel]

Sometimes your damned if you do and damned if you don't.

You just hope that the people who receive the wrong mail are at least half human and have some degree of understanding.

Very unlikely! Most of the time they complain insisting that it has happened ''dozens of times''

Yes sadly your right. Then they open it and re seal with tape before plastering it with felt pen before finally shoving it back into a post box when it was actually meant for next door.

[wabbithunta]

Sometimes your damned if you do and damned if you don't.

You just hope that the people who receive the wrong mail are at least half human and have some degree of understanding.

Very unlikely! Most of the time they complain insisting that it has happened ''dozens of times''

Yes sadly your right. Then they open it and re seal with tape before plastering it with felt pen before finally shoving it back into a post box when it was actually meant for next door.

And also don't forget they have it all folded up/creased and carried around for a few days, as it always looks a right mess when you get it back, as well as being covered in greasy stains, and having phone numbers etc on it, before sticking it back in the post.

[BeamishStout]

Anyway upon realising mistake I knocked on the houses none answered, so tore 739 in half, crossed out 'something for you' put 'apologies' above and wrote in address box the mistake.

In the absence of the P6543 cards that are like gold dust in our office (as bad as getting hold of redirection/damaged item bags) this is probably the approach I shall take whenever I forget to take out my Basildon Bond stationery kit with me!!!

[framusjsx]

I use a 739 after knocking if there is no answer.

It always baffles me how for example if number 1 gets mail for number 2 its a HUGE chore for them to walk 10 feet to the next house and pop it in. Ive had someone chase me a good 5/600 metres down the road with a wrong letter to tell me I delivered it wrong - they walked past the house it was for on the way to see me and on the way back..

[villan]

I use a 739 after knocking if there is no answer.

It always baffles me how for example if number 1 gets mail for number 2 its a HUGE chore for them to walk 10 feet to the next house and pop it in. Ive had someone chase me a good 5/600 metres down the road with a wrong letter to tell me I delivered it wrong - they walked past the house it was for on the way to see me and on the way back..

Following a day off I had someone open their front door just as I arrived at it. It was a lady vicar, no less. She handed me a letter which had been misdelivered and was for her neighbour, whose letterbox was literally no more than 4 feet away.

I assume she did it to make a point, not because it was too much effort for her to deliver it herself.

I can't think why she didn't get God to deliver it for her

[deristrong]

I use a 739 after knocking if there is no answer.

It always baffles me how for example if number 1 gets mail for number 2 its a HUGE chore for them to walk 10 feet to the next house and pop it in. Ive had someone chase me a good 5/600 metres down the road with a wrong letter to tell me I delivered it wrong - they walked past the house it was for on the way to see me and on the way back..

Following a day off I had someone open their front door just as I arrived at it. It was a lady vicar, no less. She handed me a letter which had been misdelivered and was for her neighbour, whose letterbox was literally no more than 4 feet away.

I assume she did it to make a point, not because it was too much effort for her to deliver it herself.

I can't think why she didn't get God to deliver it for her

God's day off?

[CharlesSpooner]

I'll knock on and ask for it back. If there's no answer I'll forget about it. Accidents happen.

Had one a few weeks ago where a tool of a lino in our office came round to my frame bleating about a misdelivery. I told him I couldn't remember a misdelivery on the date he said and he carried on ranting about "counselling" and so forth. He was positively relishing it and to be honest it seemed like fun so I went along with it. Following morning he calls me into the office and starts telling me how serious it is and I interrupt ask him for the address again.

"Oh sorry - that's on my walk but it's not one of my loops. J**** delivered that"

Now J**** is one of the golden boys who loves to come in early, run around and grumble about me taking breaks and using trollies. And the week of the misdelivery he was covering my regular P&L partner. I politely offered to call J**** in to take my place for the counselling session but my offer was refused.

Not sure if J**** ever got his counselling in the end. Ho-hum.

[greengiant]

And those times you just deliver some mail through the letter box, when you then spy a mail box on the wall....

[wabbithunta]

And those times you just deliver some mail through the letter box, when you then spy a mail box on the wall....

And then it's jammed up with mail and freebie newspapers that have been left in it for over a week, as they can't be arsed to empty it!

[datasaint]

And those times you just deliver some mail through the letter box, when you then spy a mail box on the wall....

Lol I had some scrote come out and berate me for posting mail through the letterbox because I missed the faded scribbled sign on the door saying place mail under the doormat ..

[wabbithunta]

And those times you just deliver some mail through the letter box, when you then spy a mail box on the wall....

Lol I had some scrote come out and berate me for posting mail through the letterbox because I missed the faded scribbled sign on the door saying place mail under the doormat ..

Well that must've been his safe-spot then! lol