Over the years I've always worried about this when writing to my landlord. Royal Mail do not offer a proof of delivery service, just proof of postage and proof of signature. Proof that they've actually posted a letter through the door is generally what I want.
I got totally fed up using the basic 'signed for' service. This used to be called recorded delivery. After having many letters go into limbo it transpired that a lot of postmen are too lazy to return the letters to the sorting office and post them without signature when nobody answers the door. So as a sender looking for proof of delivery you are in a worse position than if you had just sent the letter by normal post. You are actually being told by 'track and trace' that the letter has not been delivered.
Special Delivery is better because those lazy postmen tend to return the letter to the sorting office and it eventually gets picked up or returned. I'm currently in this position. My LL appears to have gone away. A letter I sent special delivery has been taken back to the sorting office and has not been collected after several days. I've driven past my LL's house a few times and they seem to be away as their car is not there.
Where do I stand legally? If it's returned to me do I have to start again? That's hugely frustrating if I do.
My lease actually states that "any demand notice or other document required or authorised to be given by the Lessee shall be well and sufficiently given if left or sent through the post by registered or recorded delivery letter addressed to the Lessor at the last known address of the Lessor and any demand notice or other document sent by post shall be deemed to have been served twenty-four hours after such posting"
The family I am dealing with are well versed in using the post as an excuse (I was messed around terribly in one court case, having to prepare for 3 hearings that were rearranged at the last minute or were they didn't turn up)
What do people recommend here? It sounds so simple when you read the lease but I'm not sure that when you get to the court that they will believe me when I say I posted it myself through their door.
I got totally fed up using the basic 'signed for' service. This used to be called recorded delivery. After having many letters go into limbo it transpired that a lot of postmen are too lazy to return the letters to the sorting office and post them without signature when nobody answers the door. So as a sender looking for proof of delivery you are in a worse position than if you had just sent the letter by normal post. You are actually being told by 'track and trace' that the letter has not been delivered.
Special Delivery is better because those lazy postmen tend to return the letter to the sorting office and it eventually gets picked up or returned. I'm currently in this position. My LL appears to have gone away. A letter I sent special delivery has been taken back to the sorting office and has not been collected after several days. I've driven past my LL's house a few times and they seem to be away as their car is not there.
Where do I stand legally? If it's returned to me do I have to start again? That's hugely frustrating if I do.
My lease actually states that "any demand notice or other document required or authorised to be given by the Lessee shall be well and sufficiently given if left or sent through the post by registered or recorded delivery letter addressed to the Lessor at the last known address of the Lessor and any demand notice or other document sent by post shall be deemed to have been served twenty-four hours after such posting"
The family I am dealing with are well versed in using the post as an excuse (I was messed around terribly in one court case, having to prepare for 3 hearings that were rearranged at the last minute or were they didn't turn up)
What do people recommend here? It sounds so simple when you read the lease but I'm not sure that when you get to the court that they will believe me when I say I posted it myself through their door.
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