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

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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

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.' 🙄

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)

😂

If you mean Karen then please stop with that shit

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

How would that solve anything?

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.

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

There was no forged signature? Or legal documents other than the birth certificates. Are you misreading and thinking the birth certificates were tampered with?

Good grief, calm down. Birth certificates are easily replaced. It wasn't a kidney being delivered!

Ah I see. Isn't the mailbox locked then? That seems a bit lacksadaisical for an op who's so security conscious

Mine rammed a ‘do not bend’ certificate through the letterbox, thus destroying it.

Bank cards and pin numbers don't need a signature and presumably get delivered into this same box ....

You seriously need to chill