Recorded Delivery without the Post Office?

Thenotsowyzewun

Hi,

Is it possible to send items by Recorded Delivery without getting the Post Office stamp? - I like to post items quickly and so find myself at the Post Office 6 days a week (admittedly with about 10 items a day it's just about justifiable), but I bought something on a Saturday night a short while ago and the seller dispatched it by Recorded Delivery on the Sunday, I asked her/him how and they said they've got their own slips.
Are they just going down to the Post Office to get them stamped the next day or ? - I haven't seen anything about SmartStamps or Franking machines being capable of this (and sure enough, the item turned up by Recorded Delivery on Tuesday morning, didn't pay any attention to whether it was stamped/franked at the time though).

Thanks guys

animalmagic_2

Thenotsowyzewun wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to send items by Recorded Delivery without getting the Post Office stamp? - I like to post items quickly and so find myself at the Post Office 6 days a week (admittedly with about 10 items a day it's just about justifiable), but I bought something on a Saturday night a short while ago and the seller dispatched it by Recorded Delivery on the Sunday, I asked her/him how and they said they've got their own slips.
Are they just going down to the Post Office to get them stamped the next day or ? - I haven't seen anything about SmartStamps or Franking machines being capable of this (and sure enough, the item turned up by Recorded Delivery on Tuesday morning, didn't pay any attention to whether it was stamped/franked at the time though).

Thanks guys

Did you sign for it?
Hi.You can pay for postage on the internet through the royal mail, it prints a slip but you still need to get the recorded delivery slip stamped for compensation in the event of damage or loss. Recorded delivery is sent in the post the normal way & will therefor still be treated as such but this is a silly way of doing it as the idea of recorded delivery is that you have proof you sent it with the stamp.

To speed up the process your better to pay & print your own postage & then take it down to the post office for them to stamp.Its quicker than getting them to weigh & print off the postage but post offices dont really like this method as it is one more nail in the coffin to putting them out of business

f1charlie

You can pick up the recorded delivery stickers from the counter at my local PO, so that you can have your letter/package ready to be weighed and the postage applied and for them to stamp the back of the section you keep with the tracking number on it.

As long as you have the correct postage on the item, I don't see why it should not be delivered and be able to be tracked on the Royal Mail website.

However, if you wanted to claim for non-delivery and your counterfoil had not been stamped, you may have trouble.

animalmagic_2

f1charlie wrote:

You can pick up the recorded delivery stickers from the counter at my local PO, so that you can have your letter/package ready to be weighed and the postage applied and for them to stamp the back of the section you keep with the tracking number on it.

As long as you have the correct postage on the item, I don't see why it should not be delivered and be able to be tracked on the Royal Mail website.

However, if you wanted to claim for non-delivery and your counterfoil had not been stamped, you may have trouble.

Thats right & Proof is always needed of posting when making a claim

Hintza

If you spend over £5k a year you can get an account. All you do is fill in all the paper work and drop it into the sorting office where they will stamp your book. On special delivery items I save between 5p-10p on the cost applicable at the Post Office.

chelle

10 am - 4pm. Maybe the seller is lucky and there PO opens sunday as well.

But you can pay for recorded delivery online, through the new system, as long as you have the recorded slips.

All the PO does is stamp the back of your slip, and put the label on, it is not like special that is trackable from when it leaves the PO.

martindow

Even if you pay for the postage online you still need to go to the PO to get the forms stamped and initialled don't you? Do you think this person is just filling in the forms and not getting them stamped? They'll have a shock if they need to claim.

martindow

Sorry duplicate post

soolin

martindow wrote:

Even if you pay for the postage online you still need to go to the PO to get the forms stamped and initialled don't you? Do you think this person is just filling in the forms and not getting them stamped? They'll have a shock if they need to claim.

Yep recorded and special both need to go via the Post office so that the receipt parts can be stamped. Without the confirmation stamp it is meaningless.

Soo

Thenotsowyzewun

:S that's what I thought

hmm maybe he's just friends with the local postmaster hehe.

Thanks for that; I send everything by Recorded because about a quarter of my post gets lost otherwise (not that I think all my buyers are little angels; sure some of the missing deliveries have had something to do with them!).

Guess what? I'm off to the Post Office now!