Royal Mail Surveys

catmiaow

grunnie wrote: »

Got offered another survey to check all incoming mail. Great as its another £6 of vouchers. Agree the diary is great. The large stamps are coming in handy too as I didn't realise how many large birthday cards I send.

Do they send them to you automatically or do you have to request these surveys for the extra vouchers?

grunnie

The survey offer just appears on the screen when you log in. I think they do different areas at a time. Not everyone gets a survey at the same time if you know what I mean. I have had 4 or 5 this year.

jeaniej_2

I've taken up the survey again. Vouchers are great at this time of the year.

WEEGIE

Got a mag today, first one for about 3/4 weeks.:D

mikey47

sarahlpage wrote: »

I registered, got the training pack and the free stamps, then they sent me an email the next day saying they had enough people in my area!
Ah well, 22 free stamps for nothing! That will help in posting my Christmas cards.

Same thing has just happened to me. Not very efficient of them is it!

elljay

I just wondered if the number of envelopes coming from Kantar to my home is ever likely to raise suspicions in the postman? The other day mine stopped to chat with me and asked if my post had been delivered ok the previous day as he had been off for the day and someone else had delivered it. He then went on about how he could face the sack if mail was incorrectly delivered or not at all. This when I was in the middle of a misdelivery week!

One of the reasons I joined the Royal Mail survey was that I am concerned about deliveries/collections in very rural areas like this and wanted to try and improve things. I've had concerns about this particular delivery man as I'm really sure that when the weather is bad he won't come up my muddy track and get wet so I get stuff the next day - and several other examples of problems, as well as postboxes not being emptied. However I'd hate for him to get the sack. And while it might mean he will deliver my mail more efficiently, it doesn't mean the whole service to all will improve.

Has anyone else had suspicions that the postman has cottoned on? Does it matter? Or am I being paranoid!!
Liz

mrcol1000

It might be a good thing if the postman is a bit suspcious and tries a bit harder with your mail. Until I started doing postal surveys every few months I would get no mail for a week and then suddenly get a weeks worth on one day. I live in a semi-rural area and at the bottom of a steep hill and whenever I saw my postman on foot rather than driving I got no mail!!
Now touch wood I have not my mail delayed.
Your not allowed to tell your postman your doing these surveys so be careful what you say. Just remember its nothing personal agasint your postman and its montioring the whole mail service from collection to delivery.

elljay

mrcol1000 wrote: »

Your not allowed to tell your postman your doing these surveys so be careful what you say. Just remember its nothing personal agasint your postman and its montioring the whole mail service from collection to delivery.

I wouldn't dream of telling him (or anyone really!) about the survey but it just seemed strange that he mentioned it when normally he has a bit of a casual - to say the least - attitude about delivering the mail. So much so that people I know have started writing notes on my envelopes to the effect that this letter is really really urgent etc etc. to try and persuade him to deliver it on time.

It sounds actually as if you and I have the same postman! Liz

scottishlass

elljay wrote: »

I wouldn't dream of telling him (or anyone really!) about the survey but it just seemed strange that he mentioned it when normally he has a bit of a casual - to say the least - attitude about delivering the mail. So much so that people I know have started writing notes on my envelopes to the effect that this letter is really really urgent etc etc. to try and persuade him to deliver it on time.

It sounds actually as if you and I have the same postman! Liz

I do sometimes wonder...especially when I post using my little postbox across the road as very few people use so it I wonder if they will guess... especially when I get mail that has no postage on I always worry that they may question the initials but they haven't to date. I'm also intrigued as I had a missed call from Kantar yesterday....

Lucyxx

I wondered if my postie would get suspicious aswell...... well not that we actually have a postman dedicated to us, we can have 5 different ones in a week, and we are nearly in the town centre, not far from the sorting office!!

The other day I had 3 test items, all with smarts in, some from company envelopes and others that would have looked like normal mail. I thought that was way too obvious that they had the same little package through if you felt them. Plus you can't miss the initials as they put them in capital letters. They came with one other letter addressed to me, that had my name written in full so it would have been quite obvious I think.

Another funny thing was I had a friend over and was showing her my pack and explaining what I have to do, I was showing her the misdelivery sheet and saying posties arn't meant to leave bigger items anywhere (the doorstepped items bit) and a new postman knocked on my door the exact second I was saying it with a package for me as he shouldn't leave it in my cupboard ( I don't mind them doing it though!), and then asked for directions to the house where we always get mail for as no one can be bothered to go round and find it! I thanked him for asking where it was saying no one else ever bothers!

Honestly talk about timing!!!! The very second we were saying about it!!