For Sale: codswallop ( Charlie Z Harris - crazygill85@hotmail.co.uk ) defrauding people

If you have sent them it woul be pretty straight forward for the police to visit the post office on the dates in codswallops statement and check cctv and the amounts of postage paid on the computer system

The police wouldn't do this.

I know what the police would do because I've helped provide evidence from LFGSS against bike thieves in the past.

Basically the police just find a contact at Royal Mail (they'll already have a department contact for this), they'll provide the basic evidence "we're looking for proof that packages were sent from X post office to addresses A, B and C", and Royal Mail will do a search and provide an answer. The officer will ask for a statement to be given to that effect, which will likely be done over the phone and then a scan emailed over for a signature and return by post. Finally the police will confirm that a Royal Mail rep is prepared to stand at a trial and support their statement if needed.

The police won't access CCTV, or speak to post office staff... they'll just get Royal Mail to do a metadata search. It's the least amount of effort on behalf of everyone, which in the mind of the officer involved is the most time and cost efficient thing to do.

And re: my helping the police in the past. I actually still have one potential case going to court soon. The fool pled not guilty despite overwhelming evidence. I can't divulge details, and don't know that I'll be called on. But what a muppet.