Opening post

[cassa333]

I have just been reading a couple of q on someone opening someone elses post and wondered if this would be the same.

An ex employee (left over 6 months ago) had some goods delivered to the work place.

What should happen to the package?

Should it be sent back 'unknown at this address'? kept and opened after a period of time or sent else where?

Thanks

[sara3]

does anyone have the ex-employee's address? otherwise it should go back to whoever sent it.

there will be a bill that needs paying, probably with the work address on it.

[hc4361]

Returned to sender, not known at this address.

[Ramsbottom]

Again, its an offence to knowingly open someone elses post without a reasonable excuse (paraphrase).

An example of a 'reasonable excuse' would be to open the packet to find a return address to send the mail back to. However, in this instance it seems you know that address so just return it to sender.

[dzug]

Well in this case a reasonable excuse would be 'thought it was work related'. A company will normally have something in its conditions of employment allowing them to open any mail delivered to them.

[cassa333]

Thank you everyone.

I would have thought a reasonable excuse was they thought it was work related.

However what do they do if they find it isn't for work but a personal item they ordered and was sent to work place perhaps by mistake?

[Ramsbottom]

Reseal the item and post it back to sender (unless you have the current address of the ex-employee).

[cassa333]

That sems reasonable.

Mind you I would wonder why it was being sent to old work place and could a bill come at some point? If work sent it to the ex employee I suppose they would just send the bill on as well! That could get complicated though.

[Ramsbottom]

Most websites such as Amazon and ebay have a separate dispatch and invoice address. And most will only allow payment by card / paypal with a 'registered' address. And this is the address the credit card would be registered to.

So I'd have thought that you wouldn't recieve a bill for the item.