Whenever my daughters who are at uni get post delivered to home address, I think nothing of scribbling their term time address on their mail and stuffing it back in a post box. As far I know, this has always worked and they're received their mail.
Recently though, I've had the odd larger package/parcel to forward and I got to wondering just what are the rules regarding forwarding mail. Does it extend to packages & parcels? Is the ability to forward unopened mail a right or a courtesy extended by the Royal Mail?
I can't find any info on the web concerning any rights to mail forwarding without paying supplemental postal charges hence my question.
This discussion came up a while back and you started it!: -
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FORWARDING A LETTER
6.1 A recipient of a Letter (except a Business Reply, Freepost, Special Delivery or Recorded Letter) may forward it from its original address to another address in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man by writing or printing the new address on the Cover or envelope of the Letter and re-posting the Letter. A Letter may only be forwarded in this way to the original Addressee.
6.2 Except in the circumstances set out in section 6.3 below, Royal Mail will not charge additional postage or fees for forwarding a Letter that has been re-posted in accordance with section 6.1 above.
6.3 Royal Mail will charge additional postage and any applicable fee for forwarding a Letter if it has been opened before being re-posted, or the name of the original Addressee is covered or obscured, or it is forwarded by a Business or a person acting on behalf of a Business. Royal Mail may charge an additional fee to be fixed by Royal Mail from time to time, to forward a Letter.
6.4 Royal Mail may at its discretion deliver to the Addressee or return to the Sender a Letter which has been forwarded and which bears a Special Delivery or Recorded label. In either case Royal Mail will charge the Addressee or Sender additional postage and/or a fee to be fixed by Royal Mail from time to time.
6.5 In any case where Royal Mail considers that a Letter has been forwarded to evade payment of postage it may treat it as an unpaid Letter in accordance with section 17 of this Scheme.
6.6 Royal Mail can be required under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act
1992 (?the Acts?) not to deliver items of Social Security Post which have been forwarded or redirected to a new address, but to return them to the Sender. Royal Mail is required under the Acts to provide information about the redirection of Social Security Post to persons specified in the Acts.
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