Should I ignore a registered letter?

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I got notice of a registered letter.
When I went to sorting office, they were not able to tell me the sender. I refused to accept the letter.
While I am not expecting anything by registered letter, it still worries me.
Such letters are usually bad news.
This time of year, it could the Seanad voting card, or Revenue, or a court summons.

Has anyone here ignored such letters?
 
Not waiting for deeds of your house? I feel like yourself, seldom good news but I got a note in door from postman lately re same, I caught up with him in next estate as he had just called before I arrived home and didn't want to wait until next day for sorting office collection. I looked at it puzzled as didn't know who or where it was from either but postman actually said that in his experience the package looked like it came from a bank! Light bulb moment, had paid off my UB mortgage and lo and behold here were the deeds, no forward notification that they were coming and nothing on envelope to identify them if I had asked at post office.
 
Our postman was decent enough to write Seanad on the unable to deliver card.

This saved a lot of 'registered post anxiety' in our house.

I got an unable to deliver a registered letter card about 6 months ago.
The registered letter could not be collected for a few hours. Registered post anxiety set in. I was reliving my past to try and figure what crime I had committed.

Then I got a phone call from a neighbour to tell me about another neighbours planning application decision.

Much relief, it was DLRCC notifying me as I had submitted an observation.
 
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So it's possibly the Seanad voting card... And not a summons to the high court, or higher court?

I am a natural worrier.
 
My postman just delivered the Seanad Registered Letter as a normal letter although it said "requires signature".

I do understand the nervousness about getting Registered Letters or big envelopes of the type that solicitors send out, but you should always accept them.

But I am not trying to avoid anything.
 
I got a registered letter from Spain one October, it was a speeding fine from when I was there in March that year.

I have no idea what if anything would have happened if I didn't sign for and accept the letter but I am glad I did. I paid the €50 fine online and that was the end of it.
 
The Seanad Election envelopes were put through my letterbox too. And there would've been someone home to sign for them if the postman had rung the bell.
 
If it is a fine, chances are it might be payable by a certain date and then increasing after that date. I would prefer to just pay up and have an end to it.
 
I sent a registered letter to a friend last week to ensure I could track it, as the contents were important. Why would anyone be concerned about a registered letter? With regard to jury summons, mine wasn't registered.
 
My paranoia has eased somewhat... I am still not collecting said letter.
I was reading somewhere ... if you ignore a registered letter, it can go against you, if its a legal letter.
Its assumed you got the letter.
 
Marsha25 said:
Why would anyone be concerned about a registered letter?
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If you are expecting a registered letter as in the case of your friend, it's fine.

If an unexpected registered letter arrives, it's not too bad if you are home to immediately sign for it on the doorstep and view it's contents.

If you get the unable to deliver note from An Post, it states that the item is a registered letter. You are then left in suspense as to what this letter contains, for an extended period.

It is this suspense and dread of it's possible bad contents that is awful.
 
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