Postal Fraud £70m Plot Admitted By Berkshire And Buckinghamshire Firms

There are many news reports about this UK postal fraud:

Three companies have admitted cheating the Royal Mail out of more than £70m by falsely declaring mail weights, class and destinations.

Tiger International Logistics, Worldwide Transport Express and Global Express Worldwide pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in a trial held at Southwark Crown Court.

Thats a lot of bangers and mash.

I think I smell a class action lawsuit on behalf of anyone who used the service to send items through the services of those companies.

Not seeing a class action lawsuit. Customers paid the correct amounts. Tiger and company declared lower values and pocketed the difference. RM took the beating.

Collective lawsuits are not very common in the UK or Europe.

But I wonder did customers pay the correct amount or were they overcharged for the service they received? I still think if wrong and unethical to have paid a courier company good money to get a package sent somewhere, and all they did was take it to the Post Office. Also they probably sent it as economically as possible, and defrauded the Post office by claiming other than factual weight or size. Collective lawsuits were not common in Canada either, but in the last few years they have blossomed like flowers. Everything and anything these days.

The companies using the service presumably contracted with the accused operators to use a service. The delivery service used would have been irrelevant to them. It's the post office that's been defrauded, not those sending the items.