mr stephen matthews & mrs marilyn matthews.......

[sweetgirl]

does anybody know this couple??? i have mail for them....

its from canada & has a cheque enclosed,

i will try & make contact with the sender.........

[SCSB79]

How do you know it has a cheque enclosed? did you open it?? If so..... naughty naughty!!!!

[ruffers]

Probably the post man had already opened it to see if it had cash inside.

[Vickster]

SCSB79 Wrote:

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> How do you know it has a cheque enclosed? did you

> open it?? If so..... naughty naughty!!!!

Not really, it was probably opened to find an address to return to sender....

[Loz]

I thought the Post Office was the only ones allowed to do that?

[sweetgirl]

yes i looked inside to find further information as to who i could forward it on to..... unfortunately there was nothing informative in there...

it not a problem if no-one on the forum knows anything about the said persons.... i shall forward it back to the post office!

[hpsaucey]

Poor OP! All they're trying to do get the mail back to them. I know it's not strickly 'legal' but she's trying to do them a favour.

Helen

SCSB79 Wrote:

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> How do you know it has a cheque enclosed? did you

> open it?? If so..... naughty naughty!!!!

[EDmummy]

I am also 'guilty' of opening mail not addressed to me. In my case, the letter was offering a student a place on a course. I visited all my neighbours in the nearest vicinity and asked them if they were the person it was addressed to with no luck. I then sent the letter back to the university letting them know that the address was wrong. I hope I didn't do the wrong thing but I felt that ignoring it would have been worse.

[Sue]

Somebody opened a card and letter I had sent (not addressed to them), and phoned me to tell me a friend had died.

The person who opened the card was the new owner of my friend's house.

Although obviously I was sad to get the news, I was grateful to the person for opening the card and then taking the trouble to phone me.

[chica1]

Try Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter.

[sweetgirl]

i've tried facebook already & sent out a few random messages.... waiting to hear back now! if i don't hear anything soon i'll be returning it to the post office!

[pk]

sweetgirl Wrote:

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> i've tried facebook already & sent out a few

> random messages.... waiting to hear back now!

> if i don't hear anything soon i'll be returning it

> to the post office!

you could always returrn it to the sender's bank?

[ianr]

>I know it's not strickly 'legal' but she's trying to do them a favour.

Postal Services Act 2000, section 84(3) - "A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person?s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him."

Whereas the people here who've opened mail sent to an unknown person at their address seem to have had no intention to act to the addressee's detriment, and to have had a very reasonable excuse.

[iaineasy]

well done you for trying to do the decent thing!!

hugs.xx