What, if anything, would you do?

[rubbishonlineshopper]

I bought something from a private seller last week, and it arrived today. The seller charged £8 postage, and I tend to look to see what the actual postage charges are, partly because I think it's not fair to overcharge here.

In fact, the seller had clearly put in into the post system at their work, it was clearly marked with the logo of where it had come from (NHS!!!). So, they had not paid anything for postage, it was quite a light package.

Would anyone contact the seller about ths?

I'd report them to ebay and ask for entire postage cost back. It's cheating, its stingy and its against ebay rules. Not to mention nhs rules.

yes of course - £8 postage for something they posted for free is fee avoidance and greed.

I would want to tell their employer too to be honest.

I would contact their employer and grass them up. That's theft.

I would contact them directly asking for the postage to be refunded 8 pounds is a lot -just some thing like I noticed the postage was less than stated - then take it further if not a good response

At our work we can use the post system ( saves a 2 mile trek to thr nearest post office) but we pay the postage to our lovely mate in accounts. So it has our company logo on it but we ain't thieving.

Though we have sacked people who tried to pass things through the post as being work stuff when it was actually personal.

How do you know its theft and that the seller hasn't paid for it? I used to put things in the post all the time at work, we would give them the money into petty cash and the item would be franked and put in with the rest of the post, saved a lunch hour stood I the post office.

Anita, I guess that's the question really. I work for the NHS, and while we can put personal things in the post here too, we have to put stamps on first, it cannot go through the franking system. Looking more closely at the frank, it looks like the postage paid was actually £2.36 anyway, and I don't imagine an old shoe box cost £7+.

I would be surprised if you can reimburse the NHS for postage, it's certainly not possible where I work....

I was just going to say the same as pancake, I often put it in the box at work but give the money to the post team - I have wondered before if I should write somewhere on the packet that I did pay for it myself and this has confirmed I should.

What were the actual costs? Is £8 taking the piss anyway?

X posts - that's stupid, I'd raise for the price difference alone

Highly unlikely thats the case in the NHS, where you would need to fill in 3 forms in triplicate to wipe your arse.

We had to fill in a form, but it was still quicker than the PO queue lol. That said I'd query the amount rather than if the seller did or not.

Exit - my thoughts exactly!

Think I'm going to contact seller & see what they say.

Let us know how you get on. What a cheeky seller.

I could understand a public sector office being able to sell its staff stamps - we used to do this when I worked at a county hall - and for the item to go through the post room.

But the franking machine was definitely for official post only.