what happens if you dont get sign for a registerd letter

LegacyUser

Hey guys im just wondering

I had a registerd letter sent to my parents address but i dont live there anymore infact live quite far away and no one was there to sign for it,just a note in the door saying it was in the post office to collect but due to certain circumstances i couldnt go down to collect it and my mother couldnt get it either,now i was arrested about 3 years ago for being drunk in a public place and spent a night in the cells but never signed anything or admited anything and i remember the guards saying i would get summonse but i remember him saying my address wrong and nothing ever came after that but im worried now that the registerd letter may have been it or something to do with it but i havnt been able to get it and now its been sent back.

im just looking for advice on what will happen to someone who doesnt get a registerd letter regardless of what it is and some advice on my circumstance
Thanks

Aishae

im not sure EXACTLY what youre asking but the last question - what happens when you dont pick up a registered letter? its held at the post office / sorting office office for you for a set time. im not positive, it could be several days to a week or two. then its returned to sender. the sender might send it to you again.
however if it IS a summons then they might try to deliver it by hand if registered post didnt work. maybe that has changed though.

theres not much you can do apart from wait and see. the post office wont be able to tell you who the sender was unless there was some sort of registered letter number on the note they gave you. the posties around my place never fill in details on these notes apart from country of origin and if its a letter or packet and from what date you can pick it up.

LegacyUser

It seems unlikely the letter and arrest are connected - 3 years with no intervening activity wouldn't make sense, they have 6 months to charge you, it's not open-ended for something as minor as public drunkenness. A summons would have been delivered by hand.

If you or your mother take the note the postie left to the sorting office, if the letter is there you can collect it, otherwise they can tell you where it came from and was returned to, so you can contact them yourself.

Neyite

In my work we regularly send out registered letters. The odd time an address is wrong or whatever and it gets sent back to us after a week or so, as its been opened by An Post and returned.

Would you really get a summons after this long though for your previous incident? I think the summons has to come within a certain time frame but I could be wrong.

Or it could be a speeding fine, if your car is registered to that address.

sam34

^speedkng fines don't come by registered post- at least mine didn't!

3 years is way too long for it to be connected to the drunken night.

last two registered letters I got were vouchers I ordered online- they registered than as were over €100 and a job contract- could it be anything like that in your case?

Bloody Nipples

I'm pretty sure the time frame on a summons is 6 months but you could ask over on the legal discussion forum.

Longerview

Bitofinfo, did you go to college and get a degree ? Thousands of registered letters have been sent to graduates for Senate elections. Our post man had a bagfull of them. That was about 2 weeks ago......maybe that's what arrived for you ?