I got home today to find a grey Fee To Pay card from the PO detailing an amount due of just under £36. The name on the card is not my name.
I am waiting for a couple of records from over the pond, but the charges on them would not be more than around £15-16, including the £8 handling fee.
So, I put the barcode into the PO website, and the name of the sender is “Stoke Glass”. Googling this + “USA” takes me to a company making glass paraphernalia.
This is all very weird. I have checked my bank account and cc; nothing untoward there.
The fee is the post office and tax man.
So not a scam.
If you pay the correct address. Check it’s not a card that has a very similar online payment address that mimics the proper one.
It could be the classic misdirection, a copy of the normal card with altered payment details.
Just talk to the depot it’s at.
As it’s tied to what seems like a genuine parcel it’s less suspicious. Even then the barcode could be falsely linked to a parcel the conmen sent as the trap.
My experience with Royal Mail a couple of weeks ago whilst trying to pay duty for an item from China was that the ‘You can pay online’ didn’t work so I had to queue in a Post Office to buy stamps. Then when I went to collect the item at one of the times written on the card that the office would be open it wasn’t. That the Royal Mail staff were too lazy/busy to bother to put correct information on the card is very disappointing at the least. Be prepared to waste your time on this … Good luck!
Looking at the Stoke Glass website, I have no need for a psychedelic, technicolour glass bong. Dickie will just have to wait while it is shipped back to the US and sent out again.
