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

[Speccytwit]

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

No she just has to provide a copy of her signature and then it's a police matter

@Hoardasurass Perhaps OP can order some wood and the postie can be nailed to a cross.

What crime has been committed? What law has been broken?

What is the legal document? That machine you have to squiggle your signature onto when you receive the post.

I'm not in the UK, but I don't understand why anyone would consider forging the signature on registered mail "doing you a favour".

Don't you have any situations when some deadline/complaint/reaction period starts counting from the delivery date?

I mean I am happy to be corrected but I don’t think he did forge her signature. I think he signed FOR her which is permitted and happens all the time. I’ve been asked to sign for my neighbours post all the time and I don’t even know her well.

He's put his neck on the line to do you a favour - if it went missing, you'd be able to say that you never signed for it and he would get into a lot of trouble. And yet he did it anyway to do you a favour. Sounds like a win win situation for you, with the postie the one taking a risk and putting his neck on the line.

Interfering with the mail it's a crime, the letter was to be delivered to the property and signed for by some in the property doing anything else is Interfering with the mail, it doesn't matter whether the postie stole the letter, binned it or just didn't deliver it as contractually bound, because its the royal mail it's a crime

Our passports, birth certificates and marriage certificate were all just dumped in our porch. I would have been happy to go to the sorting office to be honest because our porch is open and could have been taken by anyone. And obviously all of the whole family's documents were in separate envelopes but in one unsecured place.

If nosy roommate gets to the door before OP, they can sign for it. If hypothetical abusive husband is home, he can sign for it. A signature is required, not a particular signature.

In this case the postie signed for it and put it into the OP's, presumably locked and secure, mailbox. Successfully, safely delivered with the added bonus of saving the OP a trip to the sorting office.

@KnigCnut sorry my screen graphics didn't post will try again

I'm no solicitor - but is not interfering with the mail opening it or delaying it.
The postie in this case, if anything, speeded up the process.

I would be very unhappy with anybody forging my signature, yes.

That means opening the mail or stealing it 🙄
Not signing for it and delivering it.
logic not your strong point?

He has not interfered with it, it was delivered intact and on time. He has signed for the delivery. That is all. No crime.

Ffs, he hasn't forged a signature. He has signed FOR the document. If someone other than the OP was honest they'd do the same! And that's not forging..

Some ridiculous law abiding pearl clutchers on here.

Christ! How can you be in the job and not understand what the point of a signed for delivery is?

The signature is supposed to be that of the recipient, signing to say they have received it.

A signature by the postman who delivers it into a letterbox is signing for what, exactly?

I say we crucify the postie. Anything else is too good for him or her.

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).

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.

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

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

@Speccytwit YANBU.

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