How much does a Post Office earn on parcels??

Benji

After a couple of years being ripped off by SmartStamp I have come up with the following arrangement with my local Post Mistress:

Thursday to Tuesday, I drop off a carrier bag of post, with ready filled certificates and which 'class' required written on the envelopes. For security I let the staff know it's there so it's not left hanging around - but I never have to queue.

When they get a quiet moment they process my mail and issue receipts as a 'cash sale'. They keep the receipts until....

Each Wednesday (their accounting day) I go in and queue and pay for the weeks worth of post - I hand over my credit card and they do a cash withdrawal for the exact amount. I get my receipts for the week and my c.o.p's and go and throw it all in a cardboard box marked 'receipts'.

LULUBELLE_2

My local P.O (East Pines in Thornton-Cleveleys) is great - the postmistress is an Ebayer herself, so understands. It's a newsagent, as well, so you can drop things off from 6am and go back and pay later. I went in with several parcels last week and told her I had another, at home, but needed to find a small, sturdy box for it - she disappeared in the back and came back with the perfect box. What a star! :T

I do pick my times to go in - I try to make it between 2pm and 3pm, but even when there's a bit of a queue, I'm never made to feel a nuisance. So there are some good P.O.s out there :beer:

Little_Miss_Winner

My local po is a pain in the a$$ ! I have made it as simple as I can, about once a month i queue and by stamps (about £50), then about twice a week I hand her a carrier bag, and say "Can you post these please. They are all stamped." It takes me about 3 seconds!
And she still huffs and puffs! I dread going in, but short of driving about 5 miles to my local sorting office, with 3 kids in tow, theres nothing else I can do.
I don't even ask her to stamps recipts or anything.

If the packets are small enough I throw them in any red box!!

pot

jakemuk

you dont need to ask po for special del bags

just call up RM logistics,

get em sent it,

or you can email then RM_orders@royalmail.com

ask them for an order form,

all u need is ur reference number name address etc,

put my order in today email back to confirm sent today

200 of each Special del bags
2 x rolls Sepcial del lables 250 on each
2 x recorded same as above
2 recorded del posting books
2 special del
4 pads proof of postal
fragile labels ETC

all for free

saves me a bomb on packaging

Hintza

jakemuk wrote:

all u need is ur reference number name address etc,

What is the reference number?

jakemuk

your royal mail business account number

starts with a letter K

Hintza

jakemuk wrote:

your royal mail business account number

starts with a letter K

Ah right will need tolook into setting one up. Thanks jake.

jakemuk

just give RM a ring,

say your startign business from home,

and they will ask u how much ur sending etc and then set up account its free btw to but only for people who send large quantitys like yourself

Fill_7

hi folks!

sorry to hear about your experience in your local post office.

im a sub post office manager myself and believe me, we're paid a pittance for mail transactions. there's no mention in your post that you recieve bad customer service its just the feeling pressured bit thats awkward. a lot of smaller sub offices have recently been made into 'tax disc' issuing branches, but for having this privilege they were made to forfeit their dinner hour. i know an office close to us that this happened to which b4 the change quite happily and easily managed with 2 staff, but since the change what happens is both staff still want a dinner hour and therefore have to stagger it over a 2 hour period where there is only 1 staff present at any one time. this can cause excessive queues when customers are on their lunch breaks and wanna get stuff done at PO, as it only takes an 'ebay' customer or a long transaction for the queue to build.

this is by no means your fault, or anyone else's in the queue so dont feel guilty at all. if the demand is there then the PO should take on extra staff to cover these times as we need all the custom we can get! what i would do, is do as others have suggested and have a word with subpostmaster/mistress and see if you can come to some arrangement about dropping parcels off to be paid for at a later time. i would certainly oblige at my office, and i bet they're just waiting for you to ask at your PO! if they're not, come to my office!

best of luck!
simon

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soolin

My local sub post office says that the only reason she wasn't closed in the local london cuts was that she had the ebayers, the other closest ones did not. They even set up a second 'point' which they open for ebayers if there is more than one or two of us in the queue.

Sometimes when the queue is bad we get moaned at by other people in the queue, only last week a fellow ebayer, gorgeous looking chap, long hair slightly scruffy jeans, had a trolley load of items and the old ladies were calling out that it was disgusting and he shouldn't be allowed to use the post office when they needed their pensions/stamps for their grandchildrens birthday cards whatever. Post Mistress gets awfully cross and tells them that we all have a right to use the office and she likes ebayers as we know what we are doing.

To prove her point the lady in front of me was trying to send a parcel to Australia, it took ages. She wanted to tell everyone what was in it (a gift for her grand daughters birthday) how much it cost, how pretty she was etc. She wouldn't put the darn thing on the scales she just kept talking, then when she got the costs we all had to stand and hear her moan at the Post Mistress that it must be wrong as it couldn't be that much as she was a pensioner and it was only a gift for her grand daughter. This went on for ages..I think I sent my 20 parcels quicker than she managed to send her one.

Soo