A package I posted on ebay went missing so after 3 weeks i sent away a complaints form. Funnily enough the package arrived the day I posted the claims form. Now Royal Mail have sent me a £24.50 compensation checque.

I thinking of sending it back. Should I?

I would – They've lost things on my behalf so owe me that anyway.

just bank it, simples 😀

Cash it that is – 3 weeks FFS! How much did they charge for postage? They're so inefficient morals don't come into it.

cash it, thats 3 weeks of compensation

That's some poor postie's pension you've got there. How could you possibly cash it?

What would be the correct moral answer ?

Well useful at times like this, to remember that great Marxist quote :

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
Groucho Marx

Hehe, if you cash it now, it'll be the thin end of the wedge. This time next year, it'll be a short spell in an open prison for smalltime fraud. By 2015, you'll be mixing with the criminal underworld. Most of STW will have had their bank accounts cleared out and your soul will be empty. Mind, you'll probably have a well bling bike!

Ask yourself, what would Jesus do.

Yup, cash it.

I certainly wouldn't bother sending it back, they're all on strike again so chances are it'd never reach them anyway…

Isnt that called "differential association"?

Slippery slope if you ask me.

OP. destroy or send it back.

Hehe, if you cash it now, it'll be the thin end of the wedge. This time next year, it'll be a short spell in an open prison for smalltime fraud. By 2015, you'll be mixing with the criminal underworld. Most of STW will have had their bank accounts cleared out and your soul will be empty. Mind, you'll probably have a well bling bike!

Ask yourself, what would Jesus do.

Agree with Darcy.

I wouldn't, and you know you shouldn't.

Why shouldn't he?

I'd say it's reasonable compensation for your package being delayed 3 weeks.

Bin it. £25 won't buy much and you'll feel better for it.
Otherwise you'll be forever driving past the RM picket lines hanging your head.

Maybe its a trap! Maybe they know you now have the package and, as soon as you cash the cheque, they'll send the rozzers around and do you for fraud…I'd be sleeping with one eye open if I were you

Don't cash it, just ride round past your local picket line waving it at them!!! 🙂

cash it and give it to your postie as a 'christmas box'…….

I like hilldodgers idea/attitude. You got your package in the end in the end (how much of a real inconvenience was the delay?)

IF the delay caused a major problem (missed weekend away etc) then keep it, if not I like hilldodgers option too, and it'll have the benefit of keeping your postie on-side!

I would keep it – stuff 'em.

My attitude to mistakes like this is if it is a big organisation (who would most likely sell their own mother to please their shareholders) I gladly accept any mistake that banks in my favour. If it is a small business I always rectify their mistake.

keeping your postie on-side

If it is anything like around our way (Harrogate) we get a different postie almost every week so who would you give it to?

yes, they lost my Reading Festival tickets, lied about it, then changed their lie, isn't it convenient that they were delivered to and signed for by someone who doesnt exist 2 hours after the "sory you were out" card arrived?

The the thieveing socialist scum at the post office who pocketed them can do without their pension and rot in hell (other religions may vary) for all I care.

Bin it. £25 won't buy much and you'll feel better for it.

What a load of drivel. Personally, I'd feel sillier NOT cashing it in!
🙂

Gift horse, mouth, look in…. etc…..

Funny that as normally when you post a cheque using Royal Fail it gets stolen long before it has a chance to get to its intended destination.

I don't think there is a strong moral imperative in play here.

Sullen, hideously inefficient organisation sends you a small cheque because they didn't do their job properly.

You will be unjustly enriched to a very small extent if you cash the cheque. No-one (except possibly God) will even notice, much less care, if you send it back. 🙂

Do you feel you have been done an injustice? if so, cash it in. if you are not at all bothered by the three week wait, then do not.

Those are my thoughts!
JT

Fair enough, but give it to help for heroes at least.

I think you're forgetting that the 3 week wait was for something I posted to somebody else. No hassle to me at all, except 3 or 4 emails and the time spent filling out the form.
And it was a broken camera so I doubt the buyer could have been in a hurry either.

give it to help for heroes at least.

Why, have they had a lot of lost packages ?

WTF has that got to do with anything?

That was exactly my thoughts backhander

Wind your neck in.

big organisation (who would most likely sell their own mother to please their shareholders) I gladly accept any mistake that banks in my favour. If it is a small business I always rectify their mistake.

Do you have a sliding scale?

Sorry mate ……… I was just wondering what help for heroes had to do with this thread.

Are you not too sure yourself ?

Not the point, it could have been any charity.
You're being argumentative and belligerant and you know you are.

Oh ok, it's just that you didn't say 'give it to charity'. You said give it to help for heroes 'at least' as if no other course of action was acceptable. I just wondered if there was something significant with help for heroes and lost packages/mail.