Is dishonesty on the rise?

[Booldawg]

This seems to happen more and more; you send a bday card via Royal Mail and some unscrupulous mail worker opens the envelope and whips the voucher away. This never happened until recently. It seems rife these days. Are we becoming more dishonest as a nation?

[Oneeyedvic]

I ordered an iPad the other day and it arrived in a box that was literally 2ft cubed. I opened this box to find lots of packaging and then a smaller card board box inside it and then the iPad packaging inside that (Russian Doll style).

I can only put this down to the fact that the company had issues with high value items going missing and therefore disguising the item.

This wasn't with Royal Mail but a courier company

[keyplus90]

Over all dishonesty has a lot to do with moral values and role models. Unfortunately in recent times all these lack immensely.

As for post man, I only have one problem. My house is number 10 (not Downing St) and my postman tend to slip almost all number 10 letters (regardless of name of the street) through my letterbox. And then I drop that at the right addresses when I go for walk in the evening.

[bimbo123456]

My Aunty sent a £10 note from Stafford to Chelmsford. Despite my protestations she has continued to do so for the last three years. Arrived safely. Obviously there are not unscrupulous mailmen on our route. Woot!"

[Seadragon]

This is more theft than dishonesty. I agree that there is good and bad in all walks and corners of life, always have been and always will be - I put it down to human nature, even a person with good moral conviction can be swayed in particular circumstances.

[bushbaby_de]

I think there can be terrible problems with mail theft. I couldn't believe how many of our engagement cards and wedding RSVP cards never made it to us, presumably because they looked like they could have had something interesting in them.

[Khandro]

bushbaby_de , if the 'de' stands for Deutschland, it might also be the result of these cards not being in the correct size envelopes and not having the obligatory sender's address on the outside of the envelope.

[bushbaby_de]

It does stand for Deutschland but I haven't lived there for a long time! So just the normal UK posting rules apply..... hence my suspicion of where the cards ended up!