To ask if Royal Mail still do this?

[Florence1960]

I ordered a little gift for my aunty yesterday and as I won’t see her for a few weeks, I wanted it to go straight to her home. I couldn’t change the delivery address on Amazon do in the end left it - it will be coming here. Can you still readdress things and just pop them in the post, without any further charge? AIBU to ask? 😀

You cannot resend a parcel or letter that was originally delivered to you, for free. Of you merely change the destination on the parcel/letter then the recipient will be charged.

Even assuming this is a thing, and assuming it came by royal mail, if you re label the parcel with your aunts address how are royal mail even to know you are not just sending a parcel with recycled packaging? If it worked everyone could say they were redirecting mail rather than sending a parcel.

@Florence1960

I really don’t know why I couldn’t change the address - it kept on giving me the option then asking me to put in my payment details again. I’m sure that Royal Mail used to do this.

You cannot change the address after you make the order on Amazon. You need to register alternate addresses in your account settings and order under whichever address you wish to use.

Can't you just buy and print a label from the Royal Mail website ans then stick it in the postbox?

You can still readdress letters, I received two my mum forwarded on last week. I doubt it works for parcels though.

@Cockadoodle27

You can cross out an address on a letter and write forward to xxx and repost, and royal mail deliver it for free. I doubt they do that for packages though. I've used this service a lot so not sure why people seem to think they've never done it 🤔

But Amazon don't even use royal mail..

I order from Amazon all the time and 90% comes Royal Mail.

I've re-addresses unopened letters and put in post box again. I though that was fairly standard. But I post a lot fewer letter than 10-15 years ago.

Amazon isn't (usually) Royal Mail though so it won't work.

How annoying!