^^^
Of course if you sued them for enough you could end up owning the post office, like we own the banks now.

Good luck getting a letter from Cornwall to Scotland for 31p.

But yeah, financial cockups are bad. Though personally if I were dealing with THAT much money, I'd have taken photocopies, and probably both used special delivery services AND faxed everything for a double confirmation etc. We don't know the details, but problems like this generally arise when everybody isn't taking enough precautions.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 9:35, Reply)