Paphos Life

Devil wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:07 pm This post is mind-boggling. I have never had to send my old passport anywhere and I've got a pile of them on my desk. On reading your post, I have been asking myself whether it is not a scam. Is the destination address that they give you goldplated? If you decide to send it, make sure that the top right-hand corner is cut back by about 2 cm through the thickness of the document. This is the time-honoured way of annulling a passport.

Poster12 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:10 am Does anyone know the best options and cost of posting a small letter by secure delivery to the UK ?

I have recently renewed my UK passport online and they are asking me to return the old passport to the UK by post and they also advise to use signed for delivery

So what are the options if I go to the post office here? Do they have Registered Post to the UK with signed for delivery? And can the letter be tracked and traced online like you can do with Royal Mail in the UK?

The most secure service is probably the best as it will probably be a big problem if the old passport should go missing in the post to the UK

So what service should I ask for in the post office? Is it just called registered delivery with signed for delivery?

And will the staff in the Post Office just take the letter over the counter to post it or is the letter to be posted in a post box?

And what would the cost of this be for sending the old passport?

And where is the nearest post office to the court in central Paphos?

And what if the old passport should go missing in the post to the UK? Is a whole new online passport renewal application required? I have already paid over £110 online and so I do not want to pay for another application

Thanks for any help

MiaBeth wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:11 pm I have just renewed my passport, picked up the new one this morning .Sent the old one back using DHL, I’ve more faith in them than the Post office.Whole process took 10 days.The UK passport office acknowledged receipt of the application by return e-mail but they will only start printing your new passport when they receive your old one.

Poster12 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:30 pm

MiaBeth wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:11 pm I have just renewed my passport, picked up the new one this morning .Sent the old one back using DHL, I’ve more faith in them than the Post office.Whole process took 10 days.The UK passport office acknowledged receipt of the application by return e-mail but they will only start printing your new passport when they receive your old one.

Thanks

I may try DHL. Can you tell me the process? Do you just take the sealed and addressed letter to one of their offices for posting?

I stay near the court in central Paphos so where is the nearest DHL office?

Poster12 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 3:58 pm Thanks

So it sounds like sending the passport by Registered Post should be ok

And do you get a signature on delivery if you send it by Registered Post? The Passport Office in the UK say it is advisable to get a signature

And can the letter be Track and Traced online like when you send a letter overseas with Royal Mail?

Not sure about buying a secure packet at the Post Office. I was just going to put the passport in an addressed envelope and hand it to the Post Office staff for sending

Is there any advantage in buying a secure packet in the Post Office? Will the Post Office staff just write the address on the packet? It has to go to an address in Hemel Hempstead

And is it ok with the Passport Office for me to cut the corner off my old passport before I send it back to them? The expiry date is not until next March. Is there not some law against defacing a valid passport?