Did the post office quit forwarding letters?

I don't know why the post office carrier did not forward your mail the very first time. Since they knew her address already. Why make you pay an additional 44 cents just so that they could remail the card for you? It sounds as if they are just trying to get more money out of you. I get really angry when someone would send me a letter and then they did not put the correct amount of postage on it. By the time that the mail gets to me, I have to pay the difference. I feel that I should not be left responsible for paying the extra postage when someone sends me a letter. And then as soon as I don't put the correct amount of postage on a letter or mail that I am sending out, the post office will send it back to me and tell me to add more postage. Now, if I can't get away with it, then others shouldn't be able to either.

Not really sure if the post office quit forwarding letters, but isn't service like this one of the reasons why the post is getting to be obsolete? If they don't extend the service by forwarding the mail, and the sender has to shell out more stamp money, then people would just stop sending by snail mail. Specially if it is as easy to forward emails.

I have never heard of them sending anything back with the new address...why didn't they just send it on...did no good for them to send it back to you...other than to get another 44 cents out of you. But good grief, how stupid of them. I believe that they will forward first class for a year, then they return and the do not ever forward third class or magazines. Speaking with regard to my local PO...they employ some of the rudest, most unfriendly people in the world at this PO. If this happened here, it'd be that the postal person just did it cause it was easier on them...not cause it was the right thing to do. My daughter took her christmas cards to this PO...some included photos so she waited in line to have them weighed for the extra postage. The postal woman, told her that tshe had to go to that weigh station on the wall and weigh them herself and just write the postage amount on the envelope, then bring them back. So my daughter did, although I knew that was not right. I have mailed things like that before and that is what that postal window is for...weighing and postage! But She went and weighed and wrote and went back to her and then she told her that they would all have a "surcharge" applied to them cause they were thicker than a certain size. So they were 78 cents for postage and I forget the additional charge for the "surcharge" but it went over a dollar, so she just took a few out that she knew she wouldn't be seeing and mailed those and then just put the rest in her car and hand delieverd them when she saw that person. I know about that "surcharge" for a bulkier or thicker envelope that is smaller than a 65x7 size, but even that is so unfair. So the postal worker has to watch the machine a little better and put that one through by hand...so what. They make a high salary and fantastic benefits...its their job to get the mail out.