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When posting a letter

  • 15-03-2006 2:08pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭


    As soon as you post a letter, whose property does it become... is it still your property and you have the right to retrieve it from the post box, is it the property of An Post or does it then become the property of the adressee


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭mandz


    i think maybe it becomes the property of the adressee and An Post hold it as a trustee until its delivered to the beneficiary/addressee. I'm not actually too sure but i would kind of view it like that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Gator


    It belongs to an post as soon as you put it in the box...it belongs to them until they put it in the addresse's box...

    Heres a useless piece of information for you...in england you can be put to death for stealing the mail....as it is royal mail it belongs to the wagon of a queen and its her property hence your stealing from the throne....god bless the republic of ireland and its philandering politicians


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    is it still your property and you have the right to retrieve it from the post box,
    If that was the case people would stand at the lette box around christmas demanding all of their accidentally posted letters back and fish out grandmas book tokens for little johnny


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 385 ✭✭radioman


    Once you post a letter it belongs to the addressee. It does not belong to An Post, An Post is just entrusted with delivering it.

    If you post a letter then decide you want to get it back before it reaches the addressee, An Post is legally obliged NOT to give it back to you.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    I think it belongs to An Post, and they are responsible for it, and then when it is delivered in the door of the senders address it then becomes thiers


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭The OP


    rubadub wrote:
    If that was the case people would stand at the lette box around christmas demanding all of their accidentally posted letters back and fish out grandmas book tokens for little johnny
    How would they know what each letter contained?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,980 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    Does it belong to An Post or the Minister for Communiations?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    The OP wrote:
    How would they know what each letter contained?
    You tell the postman every single one in the box was posted by you.

    My point is there is no proof you posted it so there is no way in hell a postman is going to hand it over to you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    the old man was a postman for 20something years. here's the deal:
    once it's in the postbox it belongs to an post. after it's delivered it belongs to the recipient. you can request the letter back if you can prove your identity and the contents of the letter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Gator wrote:

    Heres a useless piece of information for you...in england you can be put to death for stealing the mail....as it is royal mail it belongs to the wagon of a queen and its her property hence your stealing from the throne....god bless the republic of ireland and its philandering politicians


    So if I post a lump of hash then technically the queen is a dealer?

    -Funk


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    funk-you wrote:
    So if I post a lump of hash then technically the queen is a dealer?

    -Funk
    ROFL :D

    That would make her one of the biggest dealers in England!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    funk-you wrote:
    So if I post a lump of hash then technically the queen is a dealer?

    -Funk


    heard of guys who actually tried to do that.


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