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If you found a brown long envelope with an address on it but no stamp would you put it in the post box hand it in or keep it

Margaret

If it was sealed, put a stamp on it and post it.

If unsealed look to see if the contents were worth posting first.

Brian I hope everyone thinks like you as I was going in the post office with a brown evelope with a Scottish address on it and was was going to get a special delivery envelope to put it in it must have come out of my bag but the saddest thing is I was sending my daughter £100 for Christmas and we are pensioners . I only hope someone worse off than me picked it up
Margaret

Margaret i do hope someone will hand it in its alot to lose please let us no if you get it back i would have put stamp on it or hand it in
Dutchx

I do hope you find it, have you been in to your local police station,
Liz

it was cash as I said I was just going in the post tosend it by special delivery which cost £4-95 they would have received it the next day. My OH was with me he was just walking a bit behind me it could have only fell out of bag in just a few yards from car to post office he never saw it and there was a lot of people in the post office it was as I got to the counter I saw it was gone.
Margaret

Bless
Hope someone hands it in or posts if for you
Have you asked at the post office if anyone handed in a letter or if the postman who picks up the post could check the post box to see if anyone dropped in a letter with no stamp on

As soon as I got to the counter and saw it gone we went straight home to see if it was there but alas no we then wnt back to the shop and I asked if anyone had handed ina brown envelope and they said no

Margaret

Hi Margaret
Think as next option I would ask post office to have someone check the post box when next collection is due.
Some honest person could have kindly posted it off for you
Good luck!
Mau xx

If it was this morning Margaret and somebody put it in the box minus a stamp it will still get there but will have to be collected from the post office sorting office and will take longer because the recipient will have to collect it and pay handling charge etc for it.

Just a thought, give it a few days, if it doesn't turn up check if your house contents insurance covers lost cash.

Hopefully somebody would just post it,unless it landed in a puddle or blown on the road etc.
Have a good look though, you just might have left it some place else ie some where safe,another jacket or bag even.

id open it and ave alook whats in it, cos i nosey

omgoodness i jusrt read rest
im so sorry for you, how upsetting

maybe its in the house somewhere, or still in car,
surely youd have noticed if it just fell out,
praps it fallen under table or in car down between seats

ave you got house insurance, just thought sometimes it covers cash,

Sorry this has happened to you Margaret. My daughter lost her purse a few weeks back, and even though it had her driving licence in it, with her address on, and a tidy sum of money, no-one handed it in.
Even if someone just popped your envelope into the post box, it would've been delivered to your daughter, though she would've had to pay the postage. Better that than losing the money.
I hope someone has had the decency to do this.

Margaret I do hope the letter gets delivered to your daughter. Maybe in future you'd be better writing her a cheque - it would cost a lot less to send and be safer, or you could transfer it to her bank if you have online or phone banking set up.

Fingers crossed, there are some honest people around so hope one of those found your envelope.

Lizx

Margaret - I'm so sorry this happened to you, but with respect, I doubt if your insurance would cover it because isn't sending cash by mail illegal?
I hope someone sent it on for you or you find it yourself.

Sorry to hear of this.
Have you asked at the police station incase it's been handed in?
My daughter found a £20 note in the street earlier this year and handed it in to the police. She got it back recently because nobody claimed it, but told me she'd given it to a charity, because it was never hers in the first place.

I hope you hear some good news soon.

Gwyn

No, not illegal in UK Berona, is it where you are. (sorry senior moment can't remember if you are in Oz or NZ.)

My son lived in a shared house, dodgy set up, so I got my building society to transfer money to his account in the same society, different town, and he had no trouble accessing it.