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retiredandskint

Two queries

First: A box needed to be handed over the Post Office counter but I'm not sure how to register this

Second: Packet to be posted between 10 and 1.00. I posted at 12.50 but as last post collection was 12.00 system won't let me register time.

Any suggestions please.

aninymoose

redagila wrote: »

Where there is a slot in my local ones, they are changed daily although we do have 1 or 2 where the post box does no have the slot.

Thanks I wish mine did. I always post before the last collection time but sometimes the box sounds as if it has already been emptied. It wouldn't make any difference to the way I post but at least I'd know if postie came early.

mum2one

retiredandskint wrote: »

Two queries

First: A box needed to be handed over the Post Office counter but I'm not sure how to register this

Second: Packet to be posted between 10 and 1.00. I posted at 12.50 but as last post collection was 12.00 system won't let me register time.

Any suggestions please.

1 - there be a post box outside the post office and this is the same number at the post box

2 - have you tried coming out of the system and trying again, - otherwise I would send them an email

hope u get it sorted x

redagila

retiredandskint wrote: »

Two queries

First: A box needed to be handed over the Post Office counter but I'm not sure how to register this

Second: Packet to be posted between 10 and 1.00. I posted at 12.50 but as last post collection was 12.00 system won't let me register time.

Any suggestions please.

For the box you treat it as though posted in the box outside, so use the no. for that box.

I have never had a problem entering the time I posted even if it was late. Does it not even allow you to re-enter the time you posted when you retry?

retiredandskint

redagila wrote: »

For the box you treat it as though posted in the box outside, so use the no. for that box.

I have never had a problem entering the time I posted even if it was late. Does it not even allow you to re-enter the time you posted when you retry?

Thanks for quick response. I tried several times to re-enter but it still wouldn't accept time. Will try again.

anamenottaken

retiredandskint wrote: »

Thanks for quick response. I tried several times to re-enter but it still wouldn't accept time. Will try again.

I can't be sure that I remember the sequence properly but think it asks
1 for the box where posted
2 provides last posting times and asks you to confirm whether the time is correct
3 asks whether you posted before the last posting time

If you answer that you didn't do that perhaps it doesn't like the answer and throws its toy out of the pram and doesn't let you put the time in.

By the way, though the schedules may give a time window in which to post, the most important thing is to post before the last collection. If the scheduled time ends after that (or begins after that) you still post before the last collection time. (The problem often crops up for a Saturday posting where most last collections are noon but the online schedule may say "after 1 pm but before last collection"!)

anamenottaken

aninymoose wrote: »

Quick question for you all. Does the post office use the postbox collection day tabs anymore? All the postboxes I use always have an empty slot. Is this countrywide or just in my area?

Seems to depend on the person who empties the box. Some of my boxes never seem to have the labels displayed, some are missing from time to time or clearly have the wrong day, and others are always changed appropriately. That has been the case for years.

retiredandskint

anamenottaken wrote: »

I can't be sure that I remember the sequence properly but think it asks
1 for the box where posted
2 provides last posting times and asks you to confirm whether the time is correct
3 asks whether you posted before the last posting time

If you answer that you didn't do that perhaps it doesn't like the answer and throws its toy out of the pram and doesn't let you put the time in.

By the way, though the schedules may give a time window in which to post, the most important thing is to post before the last collection. If the scheduled time ends after that (or begins after that) you still post before the last collection time. (The problem often crops up for a Saturday posting where most last collections are noon but the online schedule may say "after 1 pm but before last collection"!)

Finally managed to get the time accepted. I posted as per instructions even to the extent of hanging around for 10 mins to get postings in the 'right' timeframe.

anamenottaken

retiredandskint wrote: »

Finally managed to get the time accepted. I posted as per instructions even to the extent of hanging around for 10 mins to get postings in the 'right' timeframe.

I must have misunderstood your original query,

Packet to be posted between 10 and 1.00. I posted at 12.50 but as last post collection was 12.00 system won't let me register time

.

Not sure why you troubled to wait 10 mins when you were already in the suggested timeframe.

flubberyzing

anamenottaken wrote: »

I must have misunderstood your original query,
.

Not sure why you troubled to wait 10 mins when you were already in the suggested timeframe.

Yeah, that didn't make sense to me either.

And perhaps, if you're standing around by post boxes for 10 mins to get the times exactly right, you're maybe taking it all a bit too seriously.

After all, many of mine are "post after 10am". Well, that's simply not convenient for me. I'm working then. So I post at about 7am on my way to work and put 7am on the website. The TNS have never objected.