Is This A New Scam ?

[Canary42]

After having had only one demand for pre-payment of under-stamped mail in over thirty-five years, I've now had two such demands in less than a week.

This has raised my suspicions, especially since the first was correctly stamped (which I have queried with the Royal Mail). The second was not stamped (or franked as it was a business letter), which I have yet to get round to investigating, but I'm wondering whether there is a rogue in the local Sorting Office which is where the online payment goes. Or just unlucky coincidence !

What are other people's experience of such demands ?

[THECORBYLOON]

Who's been asking for payment?

[Canary42]

The Royal Mail - (that part is genuine, the post arrives after I pay up) so it would have to be an inside job by a rogue employee (I don't know if that's even possible)

[Canary42]

I'm probably being paranoid ;-)

[ToraToraTora]

how much have you had to pay?

[Canary42]

It's not the money TTT, it's the annoyance.

£1.50 and £2.00

[calmck]

There have been warnings about this sort of scam issued by Royal Mail in the past few weeks. I get them here from the Portugeuse equivalent CTT

[Togo]

Perhaps it is the end of an old scam. Yours. After 35 years understamping items the new Royal Mail technology is catching you.

[THECORBYLOON]

When you say Royal Mail asked for it, how are they contacting you and how did you pay

[pastafreak]

I've had demands like that for parcels...I ignored as I wasn't expecting any.

[ToraToraTora]

21:14 no one is going to go to that trouble for a few pence.

[bobbinwales]

Its very unlikely IMO that a rogue RM employee is creating false demand's and pocketing your £1.50s paid online as its to traceible and easly spotted.
Am assuming these are for items your due to recieve as AFAIK they ask the reciever for the money not the sender, so Togo's theory dont work

[ToraToraTora]

what happens is that people put things in post boxes with a stamp on. The RM mail work out how much it should have been and deliver a post card with instruction on how to pay what the difference is. Eg a lot of "letters" - should actually be "large letters".