In message <88102F3342E54E63ACE0380CA955BA22@PaulWork>, at 09:37:22 on
Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Paul Ticher <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I agree that Royal Mail have probably complied with Data Protection. If
>the redirection is fraudulent, I hope they have referred it to the
>police.
>
>But there is a big flaw in their system. A few years ago when I moved
>house, I set up redirection from my old house to my new. However, the
>old house remained empty for a while. Someone obviously spotted this,
>and sent in a new redirection form to Royal Mail, changing the
>redirection from my old house to a different address. Royal Mail sent
>one of their confirmation letters to the old address - the empty house.
>It was only by complete fluke that I went back to the house and found
>the confirmation letter in time to prevent a large amount of my mail
>being fraudulently redirected.
>
>Since then I've mused without success on how Royal Mail could prevent
>that happening, without getting too bureaucratic.
It's all about the person requesting the redirection proving they lived
at the first address. Having done many such redirections I can only
assume that the majority of fraudulent ones are when the PO fail to do
the relevant checks.
--
Roland Perry
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