It's Very Nice, Getting Christmas Cards But...

[Tilly2]

twice this week I have had a card left by the Postman saying that they could not deliver the 'letter' because the sender has not paid the correct postage. I have to go to the sorting office and pay £1. 53 for the card to be be given to me!

There's a £1.00 handling charge. Blooming rip off. Bah, humbug!

[murraymints]

You got it then ! I meant to put£50 in but forgot !

[Psybbo]

You mustn't have tipped your postman last year, Tilly x

[tonyav]

I knew it, I forgot to put a stamp on it ;-)

[frugalfred]

I have severely edited my card list for this Christmas; the cost of postage was going to impinge on my wine budget. I have also told the dog that I will not be financing his sending of cards to the bitches he meets on his walkies. Last Valentine's Day he cost me a small fortune.

[Tilly2]

Minty, it was you was it? I didn't recognise the handwriting.

Sibs, we have a different Postperson every week. I do tip the window cleaner and the milkman, though.

[Tilly2]

Yours must be the second one, Yont.

Fred, I have started putting Tilly's name on my cards. I have saved a fortune

Happy Christmas from,
Tilly, Mr Tilly and Tilly2 xxx

[bibblebub]

Was this you? On Radio 4 earlier they said that a woman had to pay £1.53 to get a card with unpaid postage, and it turned out to be from her local MP Nick Clegg.

[Psybbo]

Window Cleaner, milkman?? They still exist?

[tonyav]

Mmmmm, so it's not just us then, we always used to have the same postman but of late we seem to have a different one every week.

[Tilly2]

No, bibble, it wasn't me. Thankfully, Nick Clegg is not my MP.

[tonyav]

Doubt if he'll be anyones MP after the general election.

[BlackadderV]

Yesterday I bought a pack of 10 (good quality) Xmas cards (yes, I know I don't have many friends) for 99p. Crossed the road to the Post Office to buy 10m stamps - £5.30. No wonder people don't bother.

[Tilly2]

I just wish they would stop selling big oversized Christmas cards. People just buy a load of second class stamps and post their cards, willy nilly.

I have relatives who go in for those big fold out, glittery, versey sort of cards and they don't realise that I have to pay for the privilege of receiving them.

Blooming Aunties!

[Hopkirk]

I wouldn't bother to collect it.

[xstitcher]

You could always send these people cards without ANY stamps lol.

[mikey4444]

The difficulty with these "money owing" letters is that you don't know what they are until you traipse all the way to the ruddy Delivery Office ! They could be a small package or perhaps something else of value, instead of yet another Xmas card. I have got them for the last 2 years, and they are a nuisance.

People should send the cheapest Xmas cards that they can buy, not these expensive thick ones, because its normally the thickness and weight that is the problem. People just stick a 2nd class stamp on without thinking.

The days when the Post Office was a public concern are long gone. They are now out to make as much money for the shareholders as possible, the net result of yet another unnecessary privatisation.