What happens to your post if your not home? (aka on holiday)

[Bugz]

What will the Royal Mail do with it?

This is looking at parcels only.

 

[Raven]

open it, if its something cool they will probably dish it out to a member of staff, if its crap they will bin it.

 

[Raven]

actually no, they give you a few days to go and collect it, cant remember how long, then they send it back to the person who sent it.

 

[Will]

They hold it for a certain length of time, depending on which method of posting used, and then return to sender if it hasn't been collected.

 

[Gamah]

It will sit at the sorting office for a week..after that it gets returned to sender.

 

[tris-]

im gonna re iterate what the last 3 people said -

after a while it is returned to sender

origionally seeing the title i thought it was a joke for a post youd make on a forum and what happens to it

 

[Bugz]

Grrr.

Am on holiday for 10 days and it may arrive on the second day on my holiday so tht'll be 8 days.

NERF etc.

 

[cHodAX]

They return to sender much quicker than they used to as well Slainyou is a postie and he was telling me last week that they used to hang on to stuff for at least 7 days but if a return to sender address is available it now goes back after 3 days uncollected. I am sure he also said that those without a return to sender are incinerated at the descrection of local managment after 14 days uncollected Never send anything without a return address or it may well never be seen again.

 

[lilmissnaughty]

cant u A: get a neighbour or mate to take it in for ya.
or B: sure u can go in the post office an get em to redirect ur mail to an alt address (where someone will be home to collect it for ya) like ya would if u moved house.

 

[Samaroon|Terracotta]

They usually give it to my next door neighbour :<

 

[evzy]

Your only chance is to phone up wherever the package gets sent back to - sorting office - and ask them to send it to your local post office - but only do this after 4/5 days so it gives you another 7 days to pick it up from the point it gets to your post office (I think - not 100% sure but 95% or so!) other than that you are screwed - I hate royal mail for stuff like that - crap service tbh.

 

[Lamp]

They'll try to deliver it for 3 days.
After that time, they'll realise you're not in.
They'll open the parcel and keep whats inside.
Then they'll break into your house, and shit on your kitchen floor

 

[soze]

If you get along well with your postie ask them to give it to a neighbour or leave it in your shed ect? Or ask them if they can make a note on it asking the sorting office to keep it till your back. Of course if you did not give them a Christmas tip they will prolly say no

Other choice would be ask a realtive to house sit and sign for it.

 

[Sparx]

They'll try to deliver it for 3 days.
After that time, they'll realise you're not in.
They'll open the parcel and keep whats inside.
Then they'll break into your house, and shit on your kitchen floor

LOL just got images now of coming home and seeing my postie squatting on my floor making a mister whippy