Lost Postal Receipt

nina090976 I have spoken to my nephew someone has been in house everyday as his mum is there and has not been out she said I will ask at the post office tomorrow hopefully they can track it on their system I was just wondering if they could thats why I posted on this hopefully he gets it iam absolutely gutted about it thanks so much for your advice

kate1310 you are welcome, I hope it gets sorted for you. I sent christmas cards to germany in december, they arrived a few days ago best of luck x

nina090976 First class post is not trackable. You need to upgrade to either signed for which only tracks when it has been delivered, or a tracked service, which will show it on route.

sharpley yes,you are right.I usually send parcels on second class and monitor the delivery online with a reference number,hopefully in this case, the post office can be of help x

nina090976 yes surely it was put behind the counter and possibly weighed !

nina090976 yes you get a tracking number if you pay for that service. The postmaster will only put on the service that's asked for and paid for.

CarolSarich That does not mean it is tracked, otherwise what is the point of the post office offering a more expensive tracked service. I am a full time online seller with a Royal Mail account, I would like to think I understand the system and how it works.

kate1310 I am sorry Kate but you are being totally misled. If tracked was paid for you can track it but if not then unfortunately not. If it does not arrive you will need the receipt to claim for it, tracked or not.

sharpley yes I thought that myself he normally gets all his parcels when I send first class iam going to try find that recipe I put things by and forget where I put them thanks for your help

Yes delays were happening and are still ongoing but Royal Mail have stated that most postings before Xmas have now been caught up.

but of course the poster could always check the tracking on her non tracked delivery any problems with this contact user pato for help

sharpley There's also a lot of disruptions since Christmas, and going by your comment, the word "most" would indicate that there's still issues, couple that with the latest covid issues and there's still the possibility that it is delayed.

sharpley Sarcasm at it's best.

pato Be honest surely the poster wants an honest reply, Stop pretending the delivery will get through , just to make yourself look good HERE

sharpley I can't say it won't get delivered, there's people all over the UK and Ireland who've only been getting mail every month ever since the Covid outbreak, regardless of what postage was used, and with the latest isolation rules from Omicron variant there's post offices all over the place being affected by staff reductions again, causing more delays, I'm just given a starting place for the O.P. in case she hasn't thought of it, as it could very well be delayed.

I honestly can't say it will be delivered either, but I'd hope it would turn up as it would seem that it was going to a family member, who would be less likely to scam her, now since the question, was relating to the Post Office receipt, there's basically no way of retrieving the Tracking Number without the receipt, unless of course you are like me, I sell some things on E-Bay and always pay for my Royal Mail Labels through E-bay and the tracking automatically adds to the purchase, you just click the tracking and get the info, but I don't think they did that.

So this might count as an honest answer to your question and an honest reply to kate1310s post.

pato get real this is a load of hearsay

pato iam going to ask at shop hopefully she might check her system as its just a small local shop and she remembers my son posting it she told him to give it another week that was last week so fingers crossed she can help me thanks for your help

sharpley I know I knew that if I don't have a tracking number I can't do anything thanks for your comment

Thanks for the update on this, I'm glad the parcel turned up and you received the positive responses you were looking for, "I guess it must've been delayed" after all.

pato thank you I was in a state over it at least he has it yes just a delay with the post thank again