H & B

[Foe]

Just received my first order from them - my first ever half sov! (Thanks to whoever mentioned the deal 🙂) But! 

I live in old (Regent) apartment building with 3 flats and they just sent it as a regular letter. Is this how they send all orders? I mean every single thing I order even 20£ worth is 99% of the time signed for. I know my neighbors, but googling H&B name takes less than 20 seconds and I'm wondering how long it's gonna take until somebody take their chances? 

It seriously put me off from ordering anything else from them. Along with 4!!! Junk letters that I received prior to my delivery.

[universalcurrency]

1 hour ago, Foe said:

Just received my first order from them - my first ever half sov! (Thanks to whoever mentioned the deal 🙂) But! 

I live in old (Regent) apartment building with 3 flats and they just sent it as a regular letter. Is this how they send all orders? I mean every single thing I order even 20£ worth is 99% of the time signed for. I know my neigbors, but googling H&B name takes less than 20 seconds and I'm wondering how long it's gonna take until somebody take their chances? 

It seriously put me off from ordering anything else from them. Along with 4!!! Junk letters that I received prior to my delivery.

I cant remember if my order was registered or not, however I was a bit concerned  about the logo-ed packaging.  As others have commented it wouldn't take much for a canny dishonest postal worker to find out what was in the package with a quick google search or if they recognised the logo from their marketing add in the press.

If you are worried about it perhaps its a company best avoided in future if you want peace of mind.

[Bullionaire]

Yep. They are always just signed for. Must be to save costs when offering ridiculously cheap loss leaders like the full and half sovs recently

[Foe]

11 hours ago, Bullionaire said:

Yep. They are always just signed for. Must be to save costs when offering ridiculously cheap loss leaders like the full and half sovs recently

The problem is they are not even signed for

[Bullionaire]

52 minutes ago, Foe said:

The problem is they are not even signed for

Mine was

[Miganto]

Mine arrived without being signed for, just posted.

[TopHatsTales]

I sent Harassing B4stards a cease and desist letter, as fed up with post every other day.

They have neither ceased or desisted in sending me mail shots. 

I have been saving all their prepay envelopes, so may have to send them all back to them. 

[tallyhojim]

Who's H&B?

[Thelonerangershorse]

19 minutes ago, tallyhojim said:

Who's H&B?

Britain's leading supplier of junk mail, also, they occaisionally sell gold coins.

[Serendipity]

 

[universalcurrency]

If your really feed up of junk mail from H&B you could use the freepost mailers to send them a brick or anything else you might take down the tip! 🤣

[Fastnick]

Speaking personally, I have found putting a few envelopes from H&B in the bin to be a VERY small price to pay for having added a significant number of extremely attractively priced sovereigns and half sovereigns to my gold stack.

Whenever another envelope turns up, I just bin it - simples! And so much easier than getting hot under the collar about it, or going to the trouble of writing sternly-worded cease and desist letters, etc.

[Pete]

@Fastnick same here.
Got several bargain sovs from them and just bin the mailers without opening them now.
Must be expensive as they use quality paper and envelopes but they do make a killing on the regular stuff they sell - but to whom ??

[Downs523]

I'm surprised they send gold not even signed for, surely it makes sense to due to value, also to prevent people claiming their parcel never arrived? 

[Murph]

They mustn't get many stolen or it was a one off.  Mind you at the prices they charge they could afford the odd loss.