Postage Due

I recently won an item at under £3 and paid a further £6.50 for Recorded
Delivery postage. No problems so far - that was what it said in the auction
and I was happy.
However, the item arrived with a further £5.50 due on it, £4.50 for
insufficient postage and a further £1 handling fee. It appears as though the
seller stuck 70p worth of stamps on it plus a Recorded Delivery sticker, and
slung it in the nearest postbox (you're supposed to take them to a Post
Office) hoping that would work.
I have asked him for the proof of posting that you always get with Recorded
Delivery (so I can get my £5.50 back) but have heard nothing.
Anybody else had problems like this?

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Richard Warr
Stevenage

"Richard Warr" <richard@warr.cc> wrote in message
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> I recently won an item at under £3 and paid a further £6.50 for
Recorded
> Delivery postage. No problems so far - that was what it said in the
auction
> and I was happy.
> However, the item arrived with a further £5.50 due on it, £4.50 for
> insufficient postage and a further £1 handling fee. It appears as
though the
> seller stuck 70p worth of stamps on it plus a Recorded Delivery
sticker, and
> slung it in the nearest postbox (you're supposed to take them to a
Post
> Office) hoping that would work.
> I have asked him for the proof of posting that you always get with
Recorded
> Delivery (so I can get my £5.50 back) but have heard nothing.
> Anybody else had problems like this?

What was the weight of the item and are you sure it had a recorded
sticker on and not "Special Delivery"? The £4.50 insufficient postage
plus the 70p stamps would be a total postage cost of £5.20. According
to the Royal Mail price plan, the only postal service to cost exactly
£5.20 is a special delivery item weighing between 1kg and just under
2kg.

"Mark" <keep_it@thegroup.com> wrote in message
news:bf654i$bjauf$1@ID-123703.news.uni-berlin.de...
> "Richard Warr" <richard@warr.cc> wrote in message
> news:UadRa.12606$nP.2950@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net...
> > I recently won an item at under £3 and paid a further £6.50 for
> Recorded
> > Delivery postage. No problems so far - that was what it said in the
> auction
> > and I was happy.
> > However, the item arrived with a further £5.50 due on it, £4.50 for
> > insufficient postage and a further £1 handling fee. It appears as
> though the
> > seller stuck 70p worth of stamps on it plus a Recorded Delivery
> sticker, and
> > slung it in the nearest postbox (you're supposed to take them to a
> Post
> > Office) hoping that would work.
> > I have asked him for the proof of posting that you always get with
> Recorded
> > Delivery (so I can get my £5.50 back) but have heard nothing.
> > Anybody else had problems like this?
>
> What was the weight of the item and are you sure it had a recorded
> sticker on and not "Special Delivery"? The £4.50 insufficient postage
> plus the 70p stamps would be a total postage cost of £5.20. According
> to the Royal Mail price plan, the only postal service to cost exactly
> £5.20 is a special delivery item weighing between 1kg and just under
> 2kg.
>

No, it is recorded.

Recorded = 64p
1st class post for 1-1.25kg = £3.67 + 89p

Total £5.20