Thanks all for the suggestion.
Just sent at a post office: it is called Royal Mail recorded 1st or 2nd class, Signed for. This is the standard postal service with signature and barcode scanning on delivery.
Now I am waiting for the MPS to reply and hopefully with a confirmation letter.

In message , at 11:08:12 on Wed, 17
Apr 2013, jaychiu remarked:
Just sent at a post office: it is called Royal Mail recorded 1st or 2nd
class, Signed for. This is the standard postal service with signature
and barcode scanning on delivery.

That's just normal mail with confirmation it arrived. It's no less
likely to get lost en-route.
--
Roland Perry

On 2013-04-17 14:52:31 +0000, Roland Perry said:

In message , at 11:08:12 on Wed, 17
Apr 2013, jaychiu remarked:
Just sent at a post office: it is called Royal Mail recorded 1st or 2nd
class, Signed for. This is the standard postal service with signature
and barcode scanning on delivery.

That's just normal mail with confirmation it arrived. It's no less
likely to get lost en-route.

But considerably less likely to be lost by the recipient.

In message 2013041717250738867-ken@birchangercom, at 17:25:07 on Wed,
17 Apr 2013, Ken Wheatley remarked:

Just sent at a post office: it is called Royal Mail recorded 1st or 2nd
class, Signed for. This is the standard postal service with signature
and barcode scanning on delivery.
That's just normal mail with confirmation it arrived. It's no less
likely to get lost en-route.

But considerably less likely to be lost by the recipient.

I'm not so sure. When the postman delivers a whole bag of mail to a
large user, don't you think he just crosses off all the "Recorded" items
that are believed to be enclosed, without individually correlating them.
At that point all the post is the same to the recipient, and indeed most
post-rooms will dispose of all the envelopes and lose the very fact it
was sent "signed for".
--
Roland Perry

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:25:07 +0100, Ken Wheatley wrote:

Just sent at a post office: it is called Royal Mail recorded 1st or
2nd class, Signed for. This is the standard postal service with
signature and barcode scanning on delivery.

That's just normal mail with confirmation it arrived. It's no less
likely to get lost en-route.

But considerably less likely to be lost by the recipient.

Not really. Signing will be done before post actually enters the office's
internal systems - and that's where "losing" is most likely to happen.

The serviced offices my company used to be in often had registered
letters for companies who were no longer there, sat on the side next to
the pigeon holes - usually still with the sticker attached, so unsigned-
for...

Roland Perry wrote:

I'm not so sure. When the postman delivers a whole bag of mail to a large
user, don't you think he just crosses off all the "Recorded" items that
are believed to be enclosed, without individually correlating them. At
that point all the post is the same to the recipient, and indeed most
post-rooms will dispose of all the envelopes and lose the very fact it
was sent "signed for".

I doubt it, as the signature must be recorded. While I can't remember if
it was recorded or registered, probably the latter, I did get a company
(Psion, in fact, might as well mention them seeing as they are no longer
around) to accept that they had received a parcel containing a faulty
Series 5 palmtop (worth around 400 quid at the time) even though they had
somehow lost it, because the signature was recalled from the Royal Mail and
they found out who had signed for it. As a result I received a brand new
unit at no cost to me.

Neil
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Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK. Put first name before the at to reply.

Adrian wrote:

Not really. Signing will be done before post actually enters the office's
internal systems - and that's where "losing" is most likely to happen.

True, though depending on what the communication contains it's quite
possible that the company having received it will suffice.

Neil
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Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK. Put first name before the at to reply.

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:31:58 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:

Not really. Signing will be done before post actually enters the
office's internal systems - and that's where "losing" is most likely to
happen.

True, though depending on what the communication contains it's quite
possible that the company having received it will suffice.

Except that the para you snipped included a practical real-world example
of registered post not always reaching the company, and not always being
signed for when it does.

In message

..net, at 18:31:58 on Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Neil Williams
remarked:
I'm not so sure. When the postman delivers a whole bag of mail to a large
user, don't you think he just crosses off all the "Recorded" items that
are believed to be enclosed, without individually correlating them. At
that point all the post is the same to the recipient, and indeed most
post-rooms will dispose of all the envelopes and lose the very fact it
was sent "signed for".

I doubt it, as the signature must be recorded. While I can't remember if
it was recorded or registered, probably the latter,

Registered is much more authoritative than Recorded.

--
Roland Perry

....But Psion machines are still used on the Underground.