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To complain about postie forging my signature for important document delivery?

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Speccytwit · 14/11/2024 19:26

I was not home when I received a text informing me that my large letter had been delivered and signed for.

The photograph showed my front door and a signature ( not mine)

i arrived home about an hour later and the letter was in my mailbox on the wall next to the door ( we don’t have letterbox)

There were original birth certificates which were being returned - the sender had paid £8.35 in order that they be safely delivered to my own hands.

Obviously I was happy to not have to go and collect the letter from the sorting office - but not too pleased knowing that my valuable docs weren’t taken care of

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Blondeshavemorefun · 14/11/2024 22:49

Op is moaning that possibly her vip certificates may have been stolen but would have been signed for so no leg tk stand on

So if had a letterbox into her house - then vip documents would be safe

MarketValveForks · 14/11/2024 22:48

I think you should complain.
They were not delivered securely. It was shere luck that they weren't stolen from the insecure place they were left - if that's original birth certificates that's an insanely risky thing to have happened and yes the postie should get in trouble for it.

Same level of scenario - if a bus is runninh late and makes up timsby zooming down a 30mph-limit road at 60mph and doesn't cause a crash and happily people therefore get to work on time that doesn't change the fact that he did a dangerous and stupid thing that put people at risk.

When you are lucky enough that a stupid and unprofessional decision made at work doesn't lead to disaster, that does not make the stupid and unprofessional decision ok.

DinosaurMunch · 14/11/2024 22:44

Blondeshavemorefun · 14/11/2024 21:29

Solution is surely to get a letterbox fitted into front door so any thing can be posted through once the lovely
Postie has helped by signing

How would that solve anything?

lucysnowe2 · 14/11/2024 22:41

Abi86 · 14/11/2024 22:15

Mind blown. Who and why the fuck would most people think you’re being unreasonable that you’re concerned your signature has been forged? Do you people live in the same reality I do or is this a mumsnet piss take?

Mind blown also! And an actual postie (?) not knowing the difference between the person delivering the letter and the actual recipient signing for it!

DinosaurMunch · 14/11/2024 22:39

Precipice · 14/11/2024 19:50

What other professions do you think we should all have to ask not to do illegal things? Or just to not forge our signatures?

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Being a postman is not a profession. And nothing illegal has happened here. Drama queen

SableOrangeFox · 14/11/2024 22:35

Speccytwit · 14/11/2024 19:36

Of course I was pleased to get them back and not have to retrieve from sorting office or wherever .

Give your head a shake, they did you a favour, my postman once asked me if I would like hi to sign and post through any letters and parcels that needed it years ago, and I was happy for him to do it.

MadMadMad · 14/11/2024 22:27

One problem with the postie signing is that for some legal documents such as a court summons or a fine a signature is proof you’ve received it and if you don’t respond within the set time there are penalties. But if you’re away when it is delivered and ‘signed for’ it can be complicated trying to prove you really didn’t get it in time and there could be legal implications for the postie.

VanillaPlanifolia · 14/11/2024 22:22

Abi86 · 14/11/2024 22:19

You do exactly what your paid to do, providing the service your customers paid for and follow your process and procedures to the letter (you know…like everyone one else).

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Yeah and if anyone has a problem with it they can use evri who just dump everything in a hedge

VanillaPlanifolia · 14/11/2024 22:21

I am sent lots of legal documents and it is imperative that I sign for them. So I let my posties know this by means of a sign.

Disturbia81 · 14/11/2024 22:21

amusedbush · 14/11/2024 19:56

DH has been a postie for 15 years and you wouldn’t believe the petty things people complain about (and even fabricate entirely). They can’t win.

You got your documents and you were saved a trip - why would you get the postie in trouble by complaining? Just have a polite word next time you see them, then either invest in a parcel box or go to the sorting office yourself.

Don't worry most of us really appreciate the posties who try and make our lives easier, even if a few complain

VanillaPlanifolia · 14/11/2024 22:19

You can be pissed off but only if you don't then like it when they do it for something else

Abi86 · 14/11/2024 22:19

Zingy123 · 14/11/2024 19:49

What have you got to complain about? You got your delivery. I'm a postie and we can't win. If we leave something and the person isn't in we get moaned at. If we take the parcel/letter back to the office we get moaned at too.

You do exactly what your paid to do, providing the service your customers paid for and follow your process and procedures to the letter (you know…like everyone one else).

Idontjetwashthefucker · 14/11/2024 22:17

Abi86 · 14/11/2024 22:15

Mind blown. Who and why the fuck would most people think you’re being unreasonable that you’re concerned your signature has been forged? Do you people live in the same reality I do or is this a mumsnet piss take?

The signature wasn't forged, he signed for it on her behalf if that makes a difference

Abi86 · 14/11/2024 22:15

Mind blown. Who and why the fuck would most people think you’re being unreasonable that you’re concerned your signature has been forged? Do you people live in the same reality I do or is this a mumsnet piss take?

Idontjetwashthefucker · 14/11/2024 22:14

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If you mean Karen then please stop with that shit

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SabreIsMyFave · 14/11/2024 21:57

SleepToad · 14/11/2024 21:56

I can just imagine the ops next message...the fire brigade broke my door down when they put out the fire in my house...and every thing is wet.

Ffs. Do you have nothing more important to worry about than moaning because someone did you a favour....I think perhaps you need to get out more (except when the posties coming of course)

😂

SleepToad · 14/11/2024 21:56

I can just imagine the ops next message...the fire brigade broke my door down when they put out the fire in my house...and every thing is wet.

Ffs. Do you have nothing more important to worry about than moaning because someone did you a favour....I think perhaps you need to get out more (except when the posties coming of course)

SabreIsMyFave · 14/11/2024 21:53

Hoardasurass · 14/11/2024 20:42

Would you be happy with someone forging your signature on any other legal documents?

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I would be happy for the postie to 'forge' my signature to enable him/her to pop my letter through my letterbox, (if I wasn't in,) which is what has happened to the OP. If the postie hadn't done this for the OP, the letter would have gone flying back to the sorting office, and she would have been on here whining and saying 'could the postie not have just faked my signature and popped it through?' Yeah she totally would! 😆

Someone forging my signature on legal documents has naff-all to do with the OP's 'dilemma.' 🙄

SabreIsMyFave · 14/11/2024 21:53

Blondeshavemorefun · 14/11/2024 21:29

Solution is surely to get a letterbox fitted into front door so any thing can be posted through once the lovely
Postie has helped by signing

This. ^

SabreIsMyFave · 14/11/2024 21:53

Blondeshavemorefun · 14/11/2024 21:29

Solution is surely to get a letterbox fitted into front door so any thing can be posted through once the lovely
Postie has helped by signing

This. ^

TheSerenityPrayer · 14/11/2024 21:45

Mumsnet is like a parallel universe sometimes, and it's getting worse.

@Speccytwit YANBU.

Blondeshavemorefun · 14/11/2024 21:29

Solution is surely to get a letterbox fitted into front door so any thing can be posted through once the lovely
Postie has helped by signing

HotCrossBunplease · 14/11/2024 21:21

My postman forced a clearly-marked “do not bend” envelope through my letterbox the other day, damaging the art print inside so it was unusable as the birthday present that it was bought to be. I was at home, mere steps away from the door. He didn’t even ring the bell.

EmberAsh · 14/11/2024 21:17

Everyone saying he signed for it and anyone can sign for it. The point of 'signed for' delivery is that someone at the address confirms that the parcel/letter is supposed to be delivered to that address/recipient and then signs for it. The postie signing it and leaving in the postbox means the intended person missed this part. They could have moved or actually there are occasions when you may want to refuse a delivery and not sign for something (when in discussion with a company about an automatic refund they sometimes ask you to refuse delivery and the refund gets processed quicker).

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