Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

bevally

Glad to hear that someone has had a reply to their hotmail emails as i also have hotmail & have not had any replies recently! Used to get replies really promptly. Eventually (after hours of redial!) got through on the phone the other day!

Doc_N

Beckyy wrote: »

The first email I sent them was 23rd January, and have sent 2/3 since then so either they're ignoring them or they're being blocked. I'm hotmail though so don't see why it would get blocked with it being such a common email address?

Hotmail's probably the most likely candidate of all for blocking! Noted for its prepoderence of pornographers, spammers and generally shady characters, I'm afraid.

A hotmail address sends out a certain message.......:)

Doc_N

Anyone else noticed their annoying habit of sending out a SMART which they say you need, and then within a couple of days telling you to send it back again?

Just adds to the general air of chaos!

libra10

Earlier this week I received 2 smarts which 'I needed'. The next day there was one to send back, then the day following they wanted another one back.

starrybee

Oh dear, I've just been accepted to start doing this and I'm regretting it having read this? I thought they were going to be letters every now and then not parcels every day of the week!

How do I get out of this?! :rotfl:

StumpyPumpy

Doc_N wrote: »

Hotmail's probably the most likely candidate of all for blocking! Noted for its prepoderence of pornographers, spammers and generally shady characters, I'm afraid.

A hotmail address sends out a certain message.......:)

Pornographers, spammers and generally shady characters learnt long ago that it is trivial in the extreme to fake an email address or use one of the many email hosting servers designed explicitly (pun intended) for their purposes. Also Hotmail (aka Microsoft) GMail, Yahoo! etc all run filters on outgoing as well as incoming mail, making it not worth their while to concentrate on any of the big 3. A spammer will be more likely to set up a zombie network controlling thousands of little SMTP servers, faking sender addresses these days, they are easy to set up and more difficult to shut down.

The reason that you get junk from Hotmail is simply down to numbers. Hotmail users are no more susceptible to having their email hijacked but as there are around 330 million hotmail email accounts, in numerical terms there are bound to be more owners still believing that they really can see naked pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge simply by clicking onto a random email, than there are for say, billynomates.com that only has 1 email account.

Some junk will always slip through the outgoing filters but not much does these days, the Hotmail account of the [STRIKE]horny[/STRIKE] inquiring mind will soon be shut down but they will probably be zombied as well so will carry on regardless with random generated sender names. Yahoo! and GMail run hotmail close in terms of email numbers and also in amounts of junk (and stupid users).

I don't know of any currently in use, popular blacklists that include hotmail.com, live.com, outlook.com, gmail.com or yahoo.com or their local variants. And I doubt very much that Kantar will have done so of their own volition.

SP

chemical.galaxy

starrybee wrote: »

Oh dear, I've just been accepted to start doing this and I'm regretting it having read this? I thought they were going to be letters every now and then not parcels every day of the week!

How do I get out of this?! :rotfl:

I did a month and today they put me on a 'short break' so you may be ok!

"Dear Mrs xxx

Thank you for posting items for the Royal Mail Survey for the past few weeks. Due to a space being oversubscribed, we are going to pause your participation for a few weeks.


We will let you know as soon as we have found another space for you. Meanwhile, you are able to continue participating on the Correctly Delivered survey"

3010

starrybee wrote: »

Oh dear, I've just been accepted to start doing this and I'm regretting it having read this? I thought they were going to be letters every now and then not parcels every day of the week!

How do I get out of this?! :rotfl:

Once you start you will be posting up to about 8 items a week out. Then receiving about 5 to 10 a week back to record online. :eek:

akh43

Doc_N wrote: »

Anyone else noticed their annoying habit of sending out a SMART which they say you need, and then within a couple of days telling you to send it back again?

Just adds to the general air of chaos!

libra10 wrote: »

Earlier this week I received 2 smarts which 'I needed'. The next day there was one to send back, then the day following they wanted another one back.

Glad to know I am not alone, I posted the same thing this morning, so glad my period is almost up.

Doc_N

akh43 wrote: »

Glad to know I am not alone, I posted the same thing this morning, so glad my period is almost up.

Apologies - didn't spot that!