Can you send post back to UK RTS?

[Le 47]

I bought something on eBay but was sent the wrong article. The vendor asked me to RTS the package back to the UK.

I have done this within the UK before but will this be OK in France?

What should I write on the package?

thanks in advance

Bill

[cooperlola]

Sorry I don't have a specific answer to your question but you will find details of all french postal services here

http://www.laposte.net/

[Ron Avery]

I doubt it somehow, even in the UK if you have opened it they will charge for its return to sender, maybe you have been lucky up to now if you returned opened items.  RTS surely applies to undelivered or unopened mail, not the wrong item from ebay.  Look at all the trouble people had with Readers Digest stuff being received un-wanted and costing a lot to return because it was opened.  Surely with Ebay the best thing to do if it was the seller's mistake is get in touch with the seller and ask for reimbursement of your return post costs.

[cooperlola]

And you should certainly alert people to this seller's method of "returns" when you leave feedback, if they insist on your using this bizzare suggestion!

[Le 47]

Thanks for the replies.

Morals/ethics etc apart what happens if the package is put back in the post without proper postage paid as ''RTS ing'?

Bill

[Iceni]

You will receive a note in yr postbox asking you to go to La Poste to pay the correct amount.

John

not

[Ron Avery]

"You will receive a note in yr postbox asking you to go to La Poste to pay the correct amount".

I think we are talking packages here not letters and as you have to take the item to the Post Office to send it, you will be told if you have to pay for the post or if they will take it as return to sender.