I’ve had a delivery today from Royal Mail and it’s been properly opened, i don’t think anything is missing but surely this has been opened by someone at Royal Mail.
by jasonc619
I’ve had a delivery today from Royal Mail and it’s been properly opened, i don’t think anything is missing but surely this has been opened by someone at Royal Mail.
by jasonc619
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Not necessarily, could have been delivered to the wrong address, opened, then put back in the post
Some dude was 100% checking for saucy pics and ended up disappointed.
Photos too.
Feels a bit dodgy.
Doesn’t mean it is, but.
I went through a period of ordering books from world of books. I think I received about 5 orders from them. Every order arrived opened, with some or all of the books missing. Was infuriating – especially as world of books sent a missing book a second time, it went missing again, and they ran out of stock!
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It’s been happening more and more to us, usually now arriving in a bag saying “damaged before arriving in the UK” or something, even though it’s letters and packages from the NHS, my work, etc. Bit worrying, NGL, and making me paranoid about sending things using RM
I work for Royal mail. Most likely this is what happened:
Sender didn’t fully stick down the tab. Little bit of it stuck to another parcel in sorting. In hastily pulling them apart, yours was opened by accident. Or another parcel was stuck to yours and the same thing happened.
Or the sender sealed it then realised they missed something.
Happens a lot, there’s unfortunately no time to be careful with thing like this… Senders are shockingly bad at packaging things carefully. Boots are the absolute worst. Their boxes fall apart and the tabs are never stuck down properly.
Someone was hoping to see cat photos
I have had post in the past that has been damaged when going through RM machinery. I have also had post where the glue has failed to seal the envelope properly and has come undone when going through the many hands and machinery to get to its destination.
If some of the contents are missing and other items go missing on a regular basis, then I would be concerned and put in a complaint, but for a one-off, I wouldn’t bother.
I doubt it was opened by a Royal Mail worker. The repercussions are WAY too harsh to warrant anyone ever doing this, especially for something of so little value like photos.
I know no one is saying this in the thread – but I have an ex bro in law who works at the Royal Mail… staff do steal. Put something coin like in an envelope and see if it makes it to your house! We used to put Tazos in the post to see what would happen…
Ever since they came out of public ownership, it appears that the level of scrutiny of some employees has dropped significantly.
We used to set up covert cameras for Royal Mail Security, once they had a case, to try and catch thieving posties in LDOs etc. Now, the walksort is basically already done at the MSCs, where they can’t be eyes everywhere.
LDO- Local Delivery Office
MSC- Mail Sorting Centre.
Good luck claiming with them
Theyve recently lost an ebay package I sent l, the claim has been an absolute nightmare
I had an empty envelope sent to me which had originally contained a painting.
Never got it back
I don’t think it’s that important they’ve had a sneaky peek, probably just been rubbed the wrong way in transit.
Likely through one of our IMP, iLSM or Tops2k sorting machines. The glued flaps aren’t glued to the edge, it hits a metal lip as it goes along and the next item crashes into it it forcing the flap to lift. The item is opened to the left edge which would be the correct orientation it enters into the machines. Nothing more than that. Moonpig are notorious for the exact same issue and they stretch/destroy the belts on the mentioned machines regularly.
Could have just come open withing the machinery. It happens often.
At least they put a note there and it still got to you.
Maybe been stuck together with another one when being sealed and needed separating?
I know there are dodgy posties out there but I’m not sure what they would have to gain from opening someones photos.
We get thousands of those through the system processed as parcels through our automation every day. A surprising amount of them arrive from the sender not even sealed down properly. It’s a bit heart breaking when photos of weddings or children are found separated from their packaging. Happens every single day.
Same with Amazon parcels that are posted through Royal Mail. Tonnes of them with their flaps stuck to other parcels because they haven’t been sealed properly.
Used to work for Royal Mail, while the theories that most Royal Mail staff are engaged in some sort of nude harvesting op are very entertaining, the reality is far more mundane and lest conspiratorial sadly.
Snapfish, Photobox, FreePrints etc. all work on a similar model of “Low cost, max volume, minimum quality for best profits”. Part of this model means when they churn out the literal thousands of these packages per night, the poor-quality seals for the envelopes either don’t work or aren’t sealed correctly. They’re then lumped into containers with lots of other parcels and items and jostled around to their destination. During this time, the seals stick to other items, causing the contents to fall out and other packages to become damaged by the sealant.
If I had a quid for every time over the three and a half years I worked sorting these packages, we had a Gordian knot of FreePrints with people’s personal photos strewn everywhere, I could have probably bought Royal Mail. They were some of the worst I handled because not only were peoples items lost because we had no idea of what photos were who’s in 99% of cases, but as stated the sealing glue or tape would almost always rip the labels off other items and make it hard to impossible to deliver them too. They’d all end up in containers to go to a site that was authorised to open people’s mail as a last ditch attempt to get them to recipient or sender, failing that they just disposed of them.
They did this with 2 books I ordered for a Christmas present. It was missing a book that made the set incomplete, and they didn’t want to rectify the issue at all.
oh no, they’ve stolen your diamond encrusted cock-ring – are you brave enough to make a claim?
I once posted my cousin my Pokemon game cart so he could trade me a gengar, and it made the outbound journey okay.
Return trip via Liverpool sadly resulted in my Pokemon being stolen 🙁
I got a royal mail delivery this morning and the box was open, no note or anything, I assumed it just wasn’t closed properly by the sender though
Had a similar thing happen a few years ago when they delivered 2/3rds of a letter in a plastic bag. It looked like it had been jammed in a machine somewhere along the way. If they’d read it they would have seen it wasn’t important but it did make me respect their commitment to see the delivery through.
Happens sometimes, the exterior packing maybe gets wet nd opened by itself, it gets smashed or it gets opened in error, if you receive it like this it would normally be spillage if it was nefarious you’d just never get it 🤷♂️
of course. if it looks like there is any chance it could contain something worth stealing it will be opened
Postman fancies your wife.
Saw it was photos being delivered and took a chance.
My friend mailed me a bag of birdseed and that turned up 1/4 full in a we are sorry Royal Mail bag … Can only imagine the mess that made!
Every time I get post in a bag like this I see it as Karma for the chaos of the birdseed delivery.
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