Royal Mail Surveys

grunnie

Simbacat wrote: »

Well I have never had a magazine through and I have been doing the survey for almost 2 years now. However I have had the extra items to post for the past 3 weeks so an extra 36 stamps!

To be honest no idea what to do with them - I have got over 30 books now! Not that I am complaining, every now and then I have a 'mad moment' and share them out at work! It is usually worth a few bars of chocolate and a couple of cream cakes!

Same here -I just keep counting them. I used to use them up doing competitions but now most comps are done online. But they were handy at Christmas as I posted mine + my mum's cards for free. Sometimes the family ask for some but that doesn't happen very often. Never had the nerve to trade them in at the post office too much of a coward me. :rotfl:

df03

grunnie wrote: »

Same here -I just keep counting them. I used to use them up doing competitions but now most comps are done online. But they were handy at Christmas as I posted mine + my mum's cards for free. Sometimes the family ask for some but that doesn't happen very often. Never had the nerve to trade them in at the post office too much of a coward me. :rotfl:

I had been wondering about trading the stamps at the post office as I've got 20+ books of 12 myself which is over £90 worth, anyway I asked at my local post office a few days ago when I just happened to be in there and they said they dont buy them or anything, said my local spar shop would probably buy them cheap off me,
but a couple of weeks ago I telephoned an 0845 number for a main post office in my town but I think it was just a national call centre thingy that I got through to, but anyway the woman on the end of the phone also said they dont buy them.
So it looks like we might be stuck with them, although Im sure in the past I have read on here about people trading them in.

lannyloo

df03 wrote: »

I had been wondering about trading the stamps at the post office as I've got 20+ books of 12 myself which is over £90 worth, anyway I asked at my local post office a few days ago when I just happened to be in there and they said they dont buy them or anything, said my local spar shop would probably buy them cheap off me,
but a couple of weeks ago I telephoned an 0845 number for a main post office in my town but I think it was just a national call centre thingy that I got through to, but anyway the woman on the end of the phone also said they dont buy them.
So it looks like we might be stuck with them, although Im sure in the past I have read on here about people trading them in.

Some people have sold them back to the post office, think it depends on which one and the mood the staff are in to be honest.

Havent tried selling any of mine back, might try at mine this week, and ill let you know how i get on.

dicky_dunock

lannyloo wrote: »

Some people have sold them back to the post office, think it depends on which one and the mood the staff are in to be honest.

Havent tried selling any of mine back, might try at mine this week, and ill let you know how i get on.

You can't just go into any post office and sell them back.I think you need to go to a main post office and get a particular form and then send the stamps by reccomended recorded delivery to an address in scotland i think it is.They take 15%(i think) off the total costs of the stamps and send you a cheque.


p.s. i think the form is called a P674 and called "allowance for unused postage stamps"

lannyloo

dicky_dunock wrote: »

You can't just go into any post office and sell them back.I think you need to go to a main post office and get a particular form and then send the stamps by reccomended recorded delivery to an address in scotland i think it is.They take 15%(i think) off the total costs of the stamps and send you a cheque.


p.s. i think the form is called a P674 and called "allowance for unused postage stamps"

Which is exactly what i was going to do lol

grunnie

dicky_dunock wrote: »

You can't just go into any post office and sell them back.I think you need to go to a main post office and get a particular form and then send the stamps by reccomended recorded delivery to an address in scotland i think it is.They take 15%(i think) off the total costs of the stamps and send you a cheque.


p.s. i think the form is called a P674 and called "allowance for unused postage stamps"

I thought that was for stamps that had already been stuck to envelopes not new stamps. I cashed in about 400 envelopes with their stamps on for a charity that forgot to post them out and got the money back minus 15%. Didn't realise this was for new stamps too.

babyjar

Can I be a pain and suggest to those who have too many stamps to maybe spend 5 minutes writing a card or letter to a very ill child through postpals.co.uk. I've been doing this for a while and it hardly costs me anything but can make such a difference to the child's day. There is a thread on here I'll try and bump it up. Thanks for reading.

manila

grunnie wrote: »

Same here -I just keep counting them. I used to use them up doing competitions but now most comps are done online. But they were handy at Christmas as I posted mine + my mum's cards for free. Sometimes the family ask for some but that doesn't happen very often. Never had the nerve to trade them in at the post office too much of a coward me. :rotfl:

i use stamps to post items from Ebay
actually, i am a little bit short of them :rolleyes:

df03

lannyloo wrote: »

Which is exactly what i was going to do lol

Please let us know how you get on. :beer:

Also has anyone had experience of doing this?

Gemma84_3

Hi there, i tried signing up for this when i first heard about it ages ago but was told there was no vacancies in my area.
I recieved a email the other day inviting me to apply but saying my buisness would need a franking machine? Did i sign up for the wrong thing lol