Why do I have to pay when someone ships with wrong stamps?

by luteyla

11 comments
  1. Can you read? It says that there is not enough information about the sender so you have to pay it.

  2. oooh wow what a useful life hack, thx mate. now i let my recipients pay whenever I will send something.

  3. Life hack for companies:
    Send a ton of these to random people, with an ad inside to your rival company.

    Everyone will hate them and you can steal their potential customers.

  4. I had a camera for repair in great britain.

    They put the cameras worth into the documents instead of the repairs worth (the repair is taxed). This means i wouldve paid tax on 2300 chf instead of 690chf.

    I could request a change, and after DHL asked me to provide the needed documents four times and me sending them 4 times, i went to customs and they called dhl. Now it misteriously worked.

    Now there where changing fees for changing the worth i had to pay taxes on. Now i expected the manufacturer who did the repair and filled the form out wrong to pay that. The manufacturer agreed and told dhl they will pay that. I kept getting the bill and no explanation.

    I fought it for a year, only to get to know, that as the importer of the repair, i am responsible, no matter what the manufacturer does wrong.

    So i had to pay a bill the manufacturer in GB caused, even tho they wanted to pay.

    Laws can be weird. Not directly related to your story, but kinda.

  5. It’s part of the trust culture in Switzerland. In other countries, if someone tried to send a letter without stamp, they’d just throw it in the trash and that’s it. If there was some kind of important document or letter in it, then fuck you.

    Here, they deliver it, but kindly ask you to please pay them after. You can then always discuss reimbursement with the forgetful sender after.

  6. I would ignore that (and did successfully so in the past). You did not enter a contract with the post for the delivery of this parcel, but the sender did. Hence you’re not obliged to pay what post demands from you. (*Not a lawyer)

  7. Is it correctly wrong? My wife orders some stuff online that somehow get‘s flagged as wrong franking everytime but when she and the sender intervene at the post, it gets solved without a need to pay more

  8. Just ignore it. They will send a reminder but they can’t force you to pay.

  9. Would you prefer to it being send back?

    That is the usual thing and I rather receive something and then claim it from the company sending it than having all the troubes.

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