Freepost envelopes

Anyone know off hand what happens if you send a package to a freepost
address that's heavier than the 60g 2nd class for 21p letter weight
limit?

I've finally got round to sending my overcharge info to Barclaycard for
my GPS [1] and not only will it not fit their little 2nd class pre-paid
envelope it also weighs in at 125g rather than the regulation 60g.

I'm assuming it will be presented to the mailroom at the other end and
they have the choice to pay the extra or not.

I don't want to discover in 3 months that it simply got binned and I've
got to start all over again.

[1] A US company e-mailed me and offered me a GPS unit for $0. I ordered
one and the confirmed the order etc. When they shipped they charged me
$1000 as $0 was "incorrect". Ooops!

 

I've got a first class stamp you can have.

 

Gyp wrote in

Pay the postage you tight git.

As an aside:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1190563,00.html
"Freepost cheats make a monkey of the Royal Mail"

 

Except that wouldn't be enough either.

 

Oh, I'm quite happy to pay the postage if I have to, but I don't want to
waste too much of my day going to the post office to find out that that
I don't.

My time is more precious than my money. That's why I use usenet. Oh,
hang on...

 

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:38:24 +0100, Gyp wrote:

Just what were you expecting to happen?

 

Cheers for that. I'll remember it next time I have to post something.

 

Well, as it was about 2 weeks from order to shipping (and I sent them
copies of the offer letter and order confirmation as they said they had
problems with their system) I would have expected them to either have
said sorry, mistake, can't fulfil this order or sorry, mistake, are you
happy to be charged $1000? Definitely the last thing I expected was for
them to simply change to amount and charge it without contacting me.

Once it became clear that it was a mistake I would have thought they
would have offered my slightly better than a 7% discount.

And as I offered to send it back, I thought it unreasonable for myself
to have to pay shipping in both directions and pay a 10% restocking
charge.

 

what, like this:

completely unnecessary block of text you forgot to snip from your
post?

 

<porl>

FINISH HIM!

</p>

 

I still don't quite get it. Did you want the GPS unit, and expect to pay
an appropriate amount for it? Or were you just wasting your and their
time?

Sure: what they did was unreasonable - and probably illegal, if they were
a UK company - but I fail to see why you were dealing with them in the
first place.