Postage Due - Do you pay?

[Melrosgirl]

I just received mail from someone that I know wanting me to buy some stuff from her (she mailed a small catalog). My mailman included a note with it that I owe him 9 cents for postage due. Why should I have to pay this? I've always wondered. (This has happened to me and probably you before.) If there is not enough postage on it, it should have been sent back to the sender. I can't count the number of times I have mailed things just to have it returned 2 or 3 days later to me telling me I didn't have enough postage on it.

I didn't want this mail, lol, so now I'm obligated to pay the return postage? (Maybe I should start sending out all of my mail with no return address on it and NO postage at all (or very little). Make the recipient pay for it, lol.

So my long story short question: do you pay these postage due items? (I will pay it, but I'm curious to know if everyone else does it too, lol.)

 

[Muffin]

I've only gotten a postage-due item once. And I not only had to pay the postage, I had to go the post office to pick the item up. I wasn't home and the mailman left a note on the door telling me I had a letter from State Farm they were holding at the post office.

I go to the post office, stand in a horrendous line (it was Christmas time), find out it's a postage due item, pay the postage, then find out it's a generic, rubber-stamp signed Christmas card from my agent.

Talk about pissed

I don't think I'll ever pay for a postage due item again.

 

[ez]

or at least he thinks he is. We have to sign for postage dues in the morning and either bring the money or the item back in the pm. Your carrier has laid out the money for you, and he will have to pay for it out of his own pocket when he returns to the post office. If postage due is less than 2 bucks, I usually lay the money out for them as well. They usually leave it in the box for me the next day. It just saves them the hassle of picking it up at the po. If you don't want your carrier laying out the money for you, try talking to him, or leave him a nice note. Then you can decide for yourself whether you want to accept the item or not. You are not obligated to pay it, most people choose too, though.

 

[Melrosgirl]

That's interesting...I wonder why this item is allowed to even get this far to me (it's coming from across the country) and some items just get returned to sender? I wish the post office would just make a single rule and stick to it. They aren't doing us favors when one person allows one thing and the next person does not. KWIM?

I am paying this. I will even throw in an extra cent and give him a dime, lol.

 

[pumba]

out of their pocket and then when we put the amount in the little brown envelope ....they get it back......just think if each person on his/her route did that......they would not get much for a salary

 

[nativetxn]

I pay it because I know that our mail carrier paid for it out of his own pocket. If you haven't already opened the catalog, pay the 9 cents and mark it return to sender. That's what I would do

 

[LuvN~Travel]

The only one I ever had to pay for was a sympathy card of all things.
The sender isn't the brightest of people sometimes.
Kim