If your check was delivered to a store after employment has been terminated by you and the manager there opens it up and never notifies you that you have a check and it was delivered by a company like dhl.
2006-11-21 17:51:39 · 9 answers · asked by verfcor 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Guess everyone keeps missing that important difference that His Old Lady covered inher asnwer -- mail versus DHL deliveries.
DHL and UPS and Fed Ex are NOT NOT NOT covered under the same federal statutes as the U.S. Mail. If you get something delivered by them, it is NOT U.S. mail. It's a private company handling private deliveries. It is not protected by federal law. You have no recourse under federal law like you would if a U.S. Postal Service employee had delivered it.
Once DHL, UPS and Fed Ex delivers something to an address, that is the end of their responsibility. Unless you insured it with them, and it wound up being damaged when you opened the box, you have no recourse. That is not the case here. Otherwise, without insurance, they don't care what happens to it, if it was delivered correctly as addressed, once it's delivered.
Even with the PO, you would have a hard time getting the postal inspectors interested in this one. They usually spend most of their time busting the big scam artists who rip off old folks on condo schemes. Yeah, it would be illegal for your boss to open your mail, but only if the mailman delivered it to the store. You said "a company like dhl." That's a private company, so you're screwed.
If DHL delivered it along with everyone else's paychecks, and if they've been doing that, and your ex-boss decided to be a jerk and just not tell you....well, you don't have any recourse through the private companies. They'll tell you they delivered it as addressed, and the rest is between you and the boss.
Sorry, but I wanted to get this difference cleared up. Everyone keeps talking about "the mail", like it's all the same, and it isn't. It's either the U.S. Postal Service or it ain't. I've seen this before, where bosses had checks taped to the walls waiting on ex-employees to pick them up, and had run out of phone numbers to call, especially in college towns where the turnover was high and the kids moved a lot.
If you got the check, be glad, and don't waste time on recourse. IF it was DHL, there isn't any.
2006-11-23 15:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by Charlotte M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No longer always. You might have noticeable the name on the envelope, and seeing as it is not yours, you discovered that they acquired the wrong character. The best thing is to contact the publish workplace, ask if they have got the other character's new deal with, and in the event that they do, to ask for mail to be forwarded to that individual. Technically, you are not able to open other folks's mail due to the fact it can be illegal, however so as so that you can be prosecuted, any person has to certainly take you to courtroom over it, and that's not going. If you wish to, which you can also name the debt assortment agency and say that they may be sending mail to the mistaken handle. Don't go into small print, and there's particularly no intent for them to sue you, or even ask for the mail again.
2016-08-09 23:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by anzovino 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it was U.S. Postal Service mail, it should not have been opened, and should have been returned to sender unopened. Opening it (tampering) would have been a federal crime.
DHL has no federal statutes to protect their deliveries, however. They are a private company, like Fed Ex or UPS, and there are no laws to protect your privacy or delivery. If something gets stolen, they may compensate you if it was insured, but otherwise, you are out of luck.
That's why we hope the good old U.S. Post Office never goes private---nothing will be safe.
2006-11-21 17:56:48 · answer #3 · answered by His Old Lady 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mail received with another name should not be opened because it is a violation of privacy. The mail should be returned to DHL and forwarded to the correct person.
2006-11-21 17:54:55 · answer #4 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is absolutely illegal for someone else to open your mail..... If you know for sure the manager has your check and never gave it to you.....contact the sender of the check and notify them right away...they need to void the check and re-issue you a check.....give them your delivery address.
2006-11-21 18:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by jazi 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The more important question is that now that you know the check was at your former employers place.....WAS IT CASHED OR CANCELLED
If it was cancelled...just have them cut you another one
If it was cashed...call the cops and bust their as.s for stealing your dough
good luck
2006-11-21 18:02:10 · answer #6 · answered by justforthisonepost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DHL aren't bright but yes
2006-11-21 18:29:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is illegal. It can also be considered harassment or retaliation by your former employer.
2006-11-21 18:33:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is illegal, its actually a felony
2006-11-21 17:54:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋