I have sent letter recorded delivery but person has not collected it!

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The letter was a demand for payment by today. The letter also stated that if I did not receive payment today I would issue summons in small claims court. Can I go ahead with summons? Must i send another demand letter?

sounds like they know what might be in it!

Send another in a large padded envelope with a printed label and froma different post code. Include an empty CD case or something similar.

or hand deliver? That's what the bailiffs do!

How do you know it hasn't been received - are you using the Royal Mail tracker thing? If so, don't believe it - it's pants! I sent some eBay stuff and buyers have already left feedback, but RM is still saying it has no record of delivery .

Could they have gone into liquidation? DH had this with a debtor recently - mail could not be delivered as there was no one at the office!

Thanks for all the feedback! The letter was sent to an individual for money owed to me. I saw her at the shops two days after delivery was attempted according to Royal Mail Tracker thing! She said that she had not heard from me so I said that the letter had been send recorded delivery "Oh, that is what the slip is for!", she replied.

So I assumed she would have gone to collect it. Except of course that she knows it is a demand for money so I wonder if she has perhaps not collected it. I will do another hand delivery as I did with the first notice of cancellation of contract I sent to her.

The thing is that my demand letter stated that I would proceed with a small claims court summons if payment was not received by 26 November. Then the lurgy struck and I have been in bed for a few days. Now that I am up and about again, I want the matter sorted asap.

I will hand deliver tomorrow then because I know she does not work on Saturdays.

Thanks again, everyone.