----- Original Message ----- From: "George & Janet Edwards" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:03 PM Subject: [CAN-BC] mail to Canada > This is some info that I have come across. You are welcome to pass it on. > > You may or may not have heard of mail being returned from Canada as it did > not have a return address on it. [rest snipped] We've just come through the Christmas mailing rush. My family receives between 50 & 75 separate pieces of mail during this period. About half did not have any return address and in some cases the return address was written (neither printed nor typed) on the reverse side of the envelop. We were not missing any from family and friends overseas (mostly in the UK). I would have thought it would have been on all the news stations and in the newspaper, not to mention the topic of conversation (pre-Christmas) with anyone who receives alot of mail form overseas, which in our case is nearly all of our friends. Your comments are the first I've ever heard on this. Haven't even heard a whisper of it either on 'sco.genealogy.britain' either ... and they never let anything slip by them! Cheers ... Toni, Ontario. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.3 - Release Date: 1/31/05
I'm in Regina and saw, on a national newscast, this story before Christmas and I believe it was a story from the BBC and dealt with parcels. Memory fads after one day never mind 2 months but I think I have the gist right. Roberta & Terry [email protected]
-------Original Message------- From: Roberta Case Subject: Re: [CAN-BC] mail to Canada I'm in Regina and saw, on a national newscast, this story before Christmas and I believe it was a story from the BBC and dealt with parcels. Memory fads after one day never mind 2 months but I think I have the gist right. http://www.royalmailgroup.com/news/expandarticlea asp?id=1389&brand=royal_mail <http://www.royalmailgroup.com/news/expandarticlea asp?id=1389&brand=royal_mail> Below: From the GPO-UK *** "*Yule be sorry - millions of gifts sent overseas could face an unwelcome return this Christmas - Important advice from Royal Mail to make sure loved ones abroad receive their special deliveries this Christmas * *[24/11/2004]* The security of international mail services is extremely important to all postal administrations around the world and in recent months they have become even more stringent in ensuring that all international packets and parcels received carry full address details - sometimes returning items which do not bear the senders name and address or fully completed customs declaration form. To make sure that gifts and merchandise sent overseas this Christmas reach their destination as quickly as possible Royal Mail has some important advice for its customers. Firstly, anyone sending gifts or merchandise to international addresses must ensure that the item bears both the recipients and senders name and address on the outside of the packet. Secondly, customers must remember to complete, sign and attach a CN22 or CN23 customs declaration form. The completion of a customs form is not necessary when sending items within the European Union. An example of just how important these details are is highlighted by the approach being taken by the Canadian Customs authorities, who are returning to the UK all items that do not have address details for both recipient and sender or correctly completed customs declarations forms. Royal Mail is returning these items to the sender as quickly as possible. " *** ***************************************************************************** ********* Aha ... I felt certain that the OP, Kathie, had missed/mixed-up something. Key words in the above are: ** packet, parcel and customs declaration form ** At one time you could write .. "gift" and the value. We, in both Canada and the UK have not been able to do this for quite a few years. So that is not new. There is a big difference between a letter or greeting card being sent overseas and a packet or parcel. Both of the latter DO need customs' declaration forms. They always have needed them. Letters and greeting cards do not. All post has always needed to be addressed properly, but only packets and parcels requiring customs' declaration forms needed to have a return address I'm sure perhaps a few got through, in the past, but now they are just _ enforcing _ it. The UK is a member of the European Common Market, is it not? Hence the difference .. until something happens, then watch what ensues, especially if Bush sticks his nose in. If there is NO return address ... how can the Royal Mail return the parcels to the sender? Always thought the postal service in the UK was great, but had no idea they were that good! 8>))) Toni [Who sends on average 8 parcels/packets per year, over the past 35 years to the UK ... family members here receive(d) on average12 per year, over the 35 . as well, have sent parcels/packets from the UK to Canada, when I lived there.] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/05