Originally Posted by
Valerie Campbell
As you may know all our mail is now scanned by Royal Mail so they know what is in the envelope. Unfortunately some unscrupulous postal workers in Edinburgh have been using this scanning process to open birthday cards which contain the odd £5/£10/£20 note. This has been confirmed by Royal Mail. Don't ever send money through the mail service, and don't send vouchers this way either. Christmas is fast approaching and many of us send Argos or Boots vouchers to family and friends. Vouchers are just as valuable to them as cash. If you get a proof of posting and you wait 15 days after you expected your letter to arrive, you can put in a claim if it has gone missing but the difficult part is proving how much you put in. Please, don't send money or vouchers through the post.
I do believe you should be very careful stating things like this.
Royal Mail does not scan all our mail it would be quite impossible for them to do so to the Millions of mail posted every day.
The only reason Royal Mail advises not to post Cash is because their insurance does not cover for Cash sent through the mail.
The only mail scanned by the Royal Mail is a suspicious Packet or Parcel and even then it will only pick up certain material that could be used in the making of Letter Bombs.
It has also been pointed out to me that if Royal Mail attempted to scan all our mail it would be against the Data Protection Act and so against the Law.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allen Poe
Bookmarks