Messing with Canada Post.

[Jethro Bodine]

When mailing a letter, if you put the address of the recipient as the return address in the upper left corner as well, you don't need a stamp. When the post office returns the letter to the sender due to insufficient postage it will actually be delivered to the person you sent it to.

Somebody told me about this so I tried it twice this week. Once to my home and once to my business addresses. Today I recieved both letters "Returned to Sender - Insufficient Postage".

Cheers

 

[badbadboy]

I hadn't thought about that but in retrospect, I rarely try to scam the PO for $0.55 these days ound:

Funny though, I was waiting for a cheque to arrive from a guy in Toronto. He said he mailed it three weeks ago and I never got it. Cheque is for several hundred dollars. (he wouldn't send me an email money transfer for some reason).

When I called him out on it he sheepish replied the PO had sent his letter back to him. Turns out he was steaming off the stamps of used letters and got caught.

WTF

 

[deathreborn]

having worked as a mailman for a couple months (worst experience of my life), i can tell you having seen what happens on the inside a shitload of mistakes are made.

 

[luvsdaty]

Man, i don't even remember the last time i mailed a letter

 

[lenny]

When mailing a letter, if you put the address of the recipient as the return address in the upper left corner as well, you don't need a stamp. When the post office returns the letter to the sender due to insufficient postage it will actually be delivered to the person you sent it to.

Somebody told me about this so I tried it twice this week. Once to my home and once to my business addresses. Today I recieved both letters "Returned to Sender - Insufficient Postage".

Cheers

Good lord, & alighty jesus (sp), that's psthetic (sp)...for what..half a loonie?

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Good lord, & alighty jesus (sp), that's psthetic (sp)...for what..half a loonie?

Seriously Lenny!
That's why the title reads "Messing with Canada Post" as in pointing out a ridiculous loophole in the system.
It wasn't meant as a way to save one alot of money. Like Luvsdaty says, most of us don't mail letters anymore anyway.

Now go have a drink and get yourself laid. Its Friday and your wound way too tight today.

 

[lenny]

Seriously Lenny!
That's why the title reads "Messing with Canada Post" as in pointing out a ridiculous loophole in the system.
It wasn't meant as a way to save one alot of money. Like Luvsdaty says, most of us don't mail letters anymore anyway.

Now go have a drink and get yourself laid. Its Friday and your wound way too tight today.

Damn, you're all rights. I'm plastered alreasdy, after 4 smirnoff lights & 2 shots baileys.

BTW CP doesn't even stamp all stamps, so u can reuse some, eh?

 

[grusse]

been using Jethro's ruse for yrs,not so much anymore with e-mail.
still send Xmas cards by addressing them to me&the recipient in l.h. corner.

they ring me&call me a cheapo but they appreciate the card.