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Post arrived opened!

KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
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We've received quite a few Christmas cards already.  Some people must be far more organised than we are.  No problem with any of them until yesterday morning when one of them had been opened and resealed, quite carefully as it wasn't immediately obvious.  That card obviously had something other than just the card inside, it was in fact just a letter about what the family had been up to in the past 12 months.  Maybe I'm just overly suspicious but gut feeling is that somewhere along the line somebody had been checking for 'usable' contents.  No point reporting it as (a) nothing was missing and (b) it could have happened at any stage in its 400 mile journey to us.
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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Or maybe the sender sealed the envelope, realised they’d forgotten to include the letter and carefully opened it up again.
    Rutland, England
  • glasgowdanglasgowdan Posts: 632
    I would just move on. And it's not gardening related!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2018
    Posts in the Potting Shed don’t have to be gardening related ... that’s what it’s for  :)

    @KT53 Why not mention it to the sender? You might find that Picidae was right and then your mind would be at rest and you can trust the Postie again.
     Alternatively if the sender did include a winning lottery ticket you can jump up and down and shout at the Royal Mail and we’ll help ‘cos we’re your best friends  o:);)


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'd agree with Dove, KT. If you cna check up on it, it would set yourmind at rest.
    I'd like to think we don't have unreliable postmen/women, but you can never tell. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited December 2018
    Dove is probably right @KT53 . I've done that myself, realised l forgot to include a note with a card, managed to unseal it and restuck it with prittstick or whatever. And as others have said, it would put your mind at rest, providing you have contact details for the sender of course! 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I know the sender well.  If they had reopened the envelope they would have taped it closed.  Fairygirl, the vast majority of postal staff are entirely trustworthy but there are always a few bad apples, plus there are many temporary staff at this time of year.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    pansyface said:

    I often feel like declaring entirely spurious contents, of a particularly unpleasant nature, just to put them off their morning coffee.
    By all means tell them solemnly that you're posting your granny's toenails but I would strongly caution against making flippant remarks about dynamite or - worse - phone batteries. The response is akin to what happens if you attempt sarcasm at an airport when they ask you if you packed the bag yourself. Machine guns, strip searches, long waits in freezing cells, that sort of thing.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Well going from experience anything written on the package will be ignored so your description of contents is safe from prying eyes. If they don't read 'FRAGILE' 'KEEP UPRIGHT' etc in bright bold letters then the small print listing the bizarre stuff you've decided to post won't be of interest to them.

    My postman is a lovely chap but has a terrible habit of wandering the streets in the rain with a handful of letters gradually turning to mush. Still I'd rather that than have the postman we used to have at the office who once waved his penis at me. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    2nd class, small package ;)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    When I was a child, my grandfather would send us a dead turkey in the post complete with feathers and innards. Its head would be hanging out of the top of the brown paper.
    My mum would pray that it would get lost in the post - but it never did.
    Sometimes it would arrive after Christmas.😱😷😝
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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