Quick Question : PPI postage and post office dropoff

theonlywayisup

Just on another note, if you aren't using a third party software to import addresses and print PPI labels you may like to look at Aimco Software (packing partner label edition). I am nothing to do with them, but have been using them since they first started some years ago. It is well worth the investment (from memory about £40), but there is a free trial version you can use. If you need help with label settings etc just give me a PM.

pepsi_max2k

Hey, thanks for the reply. Randomly found this whilst googling for more answers, didn't realise it was my own post until I'd read half of it

Anyway... OZ1 actually seems cheaper for rest of europe than OBA (at least for packets ~160g). The rest I've figured out, account manager said I shouldn't really be splitting weights up but, it's doable I guess.

New question now: What are the Post Office meant to do with international recorded mail? I assumed it gets bagged with the rest of my stuff. They bagged it with the rest of the PO's ISF/Airsure mail. Still waiting a reply from account manager to see where it should really go.

And do you happen to know anything about international mechable mail (mainly packets)? Still trying to get decent answers out of RM on that.

theonlywayisup

pepsi_max2k wrote: »

New question now: What are the Post Office meant to do with international recorded mail? I assumed it gets bagged with the rest of my stuff. They bagged it with the rest of the PO's ISF/Airsure mail. Still waiting a reply from account manager to see where it should really go.

And do you happen to know anything about international mechable mail (mainly packets)? Still trying to get decent answers out of RM on that.

You should bag up international mail in bags appropriate to the code, ie one bag of OZ1, one for OF1 etc. If you have ISF, then it goes in a bag on its own, again in the OF1 or OZ1 selection. So four parcels, two to Spain 1 of which is ISF, two to Australia, one being ISF would be 4 bags!

So the PO did the correct thing. All AS and ISF goes with other AS and ISF in the correct OZ/OF/OL sortings.

No, don't deal with IMM. Sorry, but custardy may be able to help with that one.

pepsi_max2k

>> So the PO did the correct thing. All AS and ISF goes with other AS
>> and ISF in the correct OZ/OF/OL sortings.

Dunno if I made it clear, but... they bagged *my* single ISF OZ1 item with all the other standard post offices ISF stuff, one bag with the public's mail and presumably with the PO's own tag on.

I thought I'd need to bag n tag it seperately as I do with all my other PPI mail.

Airsure from what....


oh !!!!!!!!.

ftp://ftp.royalmail.com/Downloads/public/cmwalk/doc/active/doc1800003/International%20Unsorted%20and%20Format%20Services%20User%20Guide%20April09.pdf

Page 23. Bottom right corner. Last paragraph.

Please ensure that you present all Airsure
and/or International Signed For items in
Priority Service pouches or green bags,
separate from any other mail, to ensure
secure and priority handling.

Which was what I was about to say for Airsure, hadn't noticed it applied to ISF too. Either way, if the PO still needs to scan em they'll still be sticking them in their own sack regardless of what I put it in.

I'm starting to wonder whether I should even be getting the PO to scan ISF/Airsure at all. Still waiting on a reply from my account manager

theonlywayisup

I would bag MY own ISF and AS stuff in the OZ/OF separate bags. I wouldn't want it going with PO ISF in case they don't filter (they may have different codes than OZ, OF). You can get charged £25 for a rebag fee if it's not filtered correctly.

Don't worry about the green bags, or special tags, I have never used them. Just stick one of the ISF flashes onto the white lable.

My stuff is collected, my DO scan my barcodes but I don't retain any receipt as it's all done via the DE software, so I have a 'virtual' record of it going.

pepsi_max2k

Yeah that re-bag fee's a killer... though I've no idea where it should really go. I was told to get PO to scan all my recorded, then have them bag it with my lables. In reality I just have them pass it back to me and I bag it in the PO and leave it there. But they didn't wanna give the ISF back.

Having checked the SD / ISF / Airsure posting receipt book, unlike the Recorded Signed For it doesn't actually say to get the PO to scan them. So I'm guessing that's where I went wrong. I don't know what the DO will do with it though. Not that scanning stuff seems to make much difference (and what's up with Portugal recently anyway? ok too OT..)


What's an ISF flash? Oh well, I have about an hour to figure that out before the next lot goes...

EDIT:
Recorded P6041
International Airsure P6486
International Signed For P6485

Oh... why does no one tell you this stuff before you use the damn services? I fell another supplies order coming on. For now I'll just write ISF on em all...