Tokyo snail being pernickety. Or moody. Or something...

[Marie Wintzer]

Do my postcards look like envelopes?
I've send this postcard to Art who leaves in a neighboring area in Tokyo, putting 70 yen of postage instead of the 50 required for domestic postcards. He got it with a note from the post asking him to pay the 10 yen that are missing within 10 days (10yen=0.1UDS).
Wot?
Maybe they thought it was a letter, for which I should have put 80 yen of postage, but the reason they give it that it was too heavy, which it is definitely not.
Why they would ask the recipient to pay the missing cost is also strange. Shouldn't it return to to the sender, aka me?
I feel that my poor tanuki has been unfairly accused of cheating.

10 yen, hmmm....

[Marie Wintzer]

LOL Angie, feels good to know that we're all in the same pot.

[Marie Wintzer]

I agree with you Karen. I just feel that I have put more than enough postage for a local postcard, and that it's a bit unfair to the recipient. I hope my other postcards arrived well, otherwise I'm a bit embarrassed... :-)

[Karen Champlin]

When something is mailed to me postage due my mailman delivers it with a note saying what is owed. I will be glad to pay it rather than have the mail sent back and delayed. And I don't even have to go to the post office to get it.