Post office put £2,000 into my bank instead of £200

Let me set the scene.

There is a small post office around the corner from where I live and as its local I visit there nearly every week. The man who now owns this post office is.. rude. He once accused my mum of re-using stamps which is fraud! Along with many other reasons but maybe I'll get into that another time.

Today I visited the post office and I made a cash deposit of £200, On the machine I saw the figure of £2,000 and I went to raise the issue but he abruptly told me to just press enter as there was a queue of others behind me. He also checked the receipt himself and gave me the okay. I got home thinking it was a mistake on the machine and that I was wrong so I checked my bank and funny enough there was a cash deposit of (drum roll please) £2,000. I obviously went back round to the post office and because it is a Saturday, it had closed early. I rang the post office number and the woman on the phone said it wasn't something she deals with and that I wouldn't find a number that did (again she was also rude so maybe its a running theme). She advised me to ring the bank. Of course, I knew the bank wouldn't be able to do anything but I rang anyway. They told me they couldn't do anything on their behalf and to go into the post office branch and discuss it with them.

Now my question to you is, would you keep the money or would you return it? Do you have any suggestions, he isn't a very polite person and surely he would have no idea where the missing £1,800 had disappeared to.

Let me set the scene.

There is a small post office around the corner from where I live and as its local I visit there nearly every week. The man who now owns this post office is.. rude. He once accused my mum of re-using stamps which is fraud! Along with many other reasons but maybe I'll get into that another time.

Today I visited the post office and I made a cash deposit of £200, On the machine I saw the figure of £2,000 and I went to raise the issue but he abruptly told me to just press enter as there was a queue of others behind me. He also checked the receipt himself and gave me the okay. I got home thinking it was a mistake on the machine and that I was wrong so I checked my bank and funny enough there was a cash deposit of (drum roll please) £2,000. I obviously went back round to the post office and because it is a Saturday, it had closed early. I rang the post office number and the woman on the phone said it wasn't something she deals with and that I wouldn't find a number that did (again she was also rude so maybe its a running theme). She advised me to ring the bank. Of course, I knew the bank wouldn't be able to do anything but I rang anyway. They told me they couldn't do anything on their behalf and to go into the post office branch and discuss it with them.

Now my question to you is, would you keep the money or would you return it? Do you have any suggestions, he isn't a very polite person and surely he would have no idea where the missing £1,800 had disappeared to.

It will be obvious when Horizon comes back with a £1800 cash shortfall what has happened, and the deposit will be corrected. Don't think that you've got a payday here, because you haven't.

Interesting why you think stealing money is OK because the person 'isn't very polite'. What an odd moral compass you have.

Obviously I am going to return otherwise I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to ring the bank etc I was just curious to see what others would do

Obviously the kids on here with no life experience will say keep it.
Everyone else will say to return it, since its not your money and keeping it would be theft.

Yes, I know you were - it's more a thought experiment regarding the moral compass thing. I appreciate you're doing this hypothetically

Yes, I know you were - it's more a thought experiment regarding the moral compass thing. I appreciate you're doing this hypothetically