Birthday envelope being tampered with
This morning when my son's birthday cards arrived, one had clearly been tampered with. :mad: There was a very neat corner opened up by about two inches, just enough to see what was inside. Luckily it was a cheque. I've had money go missing before in envelopes and it's always been from his Grandma's card. So she now always sends a cheque. All the others were fine. I had a thought, obviously the brightly coloured envelopes are a give away, but also do you think they target the more old fashioned, squirly handwriting? Their generation's writing is quite distinctive, and there's much more chance of Granny popping some money in the post? It seems possible. 
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I wouldn't put it past them to sneak a peek.
It's also a criminal offence to tamper with someone elses mail.
I know It's a bit of a risk putting money Into an envelope through the post, but they have taken a solemn vow haven't they?? Does this not mean anything to them, did they just take this vow flippantly I wonder. All this If this Is what the first poster was talking about.
I would report this immediately. If they have done it to your mail they'll have done it to other people's.
Shame, isn't it?
Someone obviously opened it hoping to find a certian type of DVD. I went to my local sorting office to show them the item and all they did was give me a bog standard CS telephone number to ring.
I used to have a mate in the post office and at that time he told me just how rife internal postal theft was and it was pretty bad.
One address where I lived it happened many times, I complained and recieved 4 first class stamps as "compensation" :rolleyes:
There was a TV docu on the Royal Mail last year about money and items targeted by thieving post workers. It featured an experiment where several letters all comtaining money were sent to different addresses around the country.
If you think your postman is stealing from you, get a cheap video camera and record yourself from start to finish posting a letter to yourself with money in. Each time the post arrives, record you going to the door and opening it to see if it's gone. Make sure the envelope stays in view the whole time.
I suppose postmen don't open mail or packages from big companies because i'm sure if Amazon, for example, found out that what they were sending to people were being stolen, Royal Mail would lose a fair bit of trade.
Try confronting your postman, see if that deters him.
Would you like to state clearly why you think there might be a link between people who choose a same sex partner, and people who steal money?
What's to say straight people can't steal? And why do you find it acceptable to say an entire group of people are responsible for a certain type of crime? Are you suggesting the post office should stop employing homosexuals?
Additionally, always selotape the back of the envelope down.. seal it completely for safety. I've done it for years.. my stuff always gets there intact that way. I always tell people to do the same.. if sending stuff to me.
Regards,
I had this last year i received a letter from the Royal Mail saying post to me and other people had been found open and abandoned and that they would get in touch with me.
I forgot all about it until a policewoman turned up asking me about a birthday card and asking me if i knew who had sent it and was there any money in it i did and i said there was no money in it as far as i know, she said one of the casual post workers was being investigated, i never got the card back as it was kept as evidence but they sent me a photo copy i had to laugh it was one of those funny birthday cards with a thank you card inside which was also photo copied.
Our usual postman is pretty good as the day before this all happened i received cards with money in, though i do know it goes on in lots of areas and the post office and police take post tampering seriously.
They told me mail with something moving inside gets targeted from their experience by the people who do this.