VIDEO: Send letter freight collect

Why send freight collect?

If you want to send someone a letter, you should also give it sufficient postage. After all, it is not the recipient's fault for wanting to send them a letter. Or does it?

• If you have received a letter that does not belong to you, you may come up with the idea of ​​sending it to the right recipient. Of course, you do not want to spend any money on this and therefore send this letter freight collect.
• It can also happen that you have wrongly received a reminder or other "negative" letter to which you want to reply.
• Would you like to reply to an offer from an insurance company and do you have the option of sending this reply letter freight collect?

Send a letter without postage

If you want to send a letter freight collect, you should proceed as follows:

• Make a note of the comment "Postage pays recipient" on the letter.
• If this comment is missing, it could be that you as the sender get the letter back, as the post office assumes that the postage was accidentally missing.
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If the recipient does not accept the letter

A letter that you send freight collect could not be accepted by the recipient. This can happen because in this case a so-called additional postage is added to the regular postage.

• As a result, you will get the letter back and have to pay a higher fee again.
• Should you then again refuse acceptance, this could lead to relatively high fees. In an emergency, the Deutsche Bundespost could charge a storage fee because the Post will make several attempts to deliver the letter to you again.

If you want to avoid such problems, you should clarify with the recipient beforehand whether they will take over the postage. Many companies send an envelope for a reply, on which it is already noted by machine that they will take care of the postage. Sending a letter freight collect in such a way shouldn't be a problem.