1st class signed for post.

[sunflower9876]

I posted a letter 12/12 1st class signed for post, postage bought from the RM website 11/12. It said it had to be posted by 18/12.

Obviously it was posted well before the deadline but my question is at what point in the process is the posting date checked? My anxiety is, is that with the delays it won't get scanned in time? What happens then if the system thinks it was posted after the deadline?

Also what happens if it arrives when the office is closed between Christmas and New Year and no-one's there to sign for it?

It's a document that needs to get there soon and I don't want it to time out.

Are there any RM people on here who would know?

Many thanks.

It would have been scanned when you took it to the post office. So as long as you did that before the post by date you will be fine.

It got put in a post box. We'd suffered a bereavement, no-one was thinking straight. So if it hasn't been scanned and by the time the postbag gets dealt with possibly after seven days will it count as insufficient postage?

I don't know what will happen if it wasn't scanned in to the system. But signed for shouldn't be put in a post box. You would hope they would scan it when it's picked up but I don't know for sure. Is the tracking showing anything?

No tracking isn't showing anything just that it will be tracked when a delivery is attempted. Wondering how reliably mail is scanned on delivery....