Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

heather66

yummymummy222 wrote: »

Ive had an email this morning to say I will be finishing in 5 weeks time and will most likely get an invite to rejoin in 5-6 months time. This has come at the perfect time for me as the kids will be on school holidays when I finish so no more planning everything round the posting schedule. Overall ive enjoyed doing this and now have a large stamp bundle which will last me forever!

i got the same email ... just as i had hoped just in time for the kids school holidays that start the end of June .also got an email to do my first correctly deliverd mail in a few weeks

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

Lobsta wrote: »

I've just had next weeks pack come through, 2 things to post on the same day at a post office, one between 10 & 1 and the other after 1! Seriously Kantar start being a little more realistic with your requests if you want us to properly follow your schedule.

I'm guessing you'll be at the PO at 12:59 and 13:01

Saetana

Both my local post boxes only have one collection a day at 5.30, so I pretty much ignore the posting times and post them anytime before last collection - they haven't queried it as yet. I cannot see how it matters what time they go in the box so long as it is before last post - a post office however may be different as they often have two collections, one around lunchtime and one late afternoon or early evening (I used to work in one).

yummymummy222

Ive nothing to post this week as im going away tomorrow so they probably thought it wasn't worth posting anything this week but I was due my monthly stamps and thought they would arrive in next weeks schedule pack which ive just recieved but no there not so im a bit annoyed.

StumpyPumpy

Saetana wrote: »

Both my local post boxes only have one collection a day at 5.30, so I pretty much ignore the posting times and post them anytime before last collection - they haven't queried it as yet. I cannot see how it matters what time they go in the box so long as it is before last post - a post office however may be different as they often have two collections, one around lunchtime and one late afternoon or early evening (I used to work in one).

I've thought about this in the past, and then I realised that the timing can also be to make sure that post isn't being picked up early.

For instance, if you post consistently at 10am (regardless of when you are asked to) then there is no way of telling if the postbox is actually emptied early. For instance it might actually be emptied at noon on a Friday because postie wants to skive off for the afternoon.

Obviously you get to record the actual times you post and I know many people on here say the time to post isn't important, but my view is this: if the requested post time isn't important, why do they bother including it?

I'm sure that many times the timing isn't critical but as I'm not privy to when they are, I always try my best to post when and where I am asked to, I see it as part of agreeing to be on the panel. If I couldn't do this consistently I'd stop doing the survey.

SP

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

I'm pretty sure the postie scans a barcode which is located inside the postbox whenever it is emptied. I'm guessing that the time would also be registered as a check that the job is being done properly.

Kirri

Lobsta wrote: »

I've just had next weeks pack come through, 2 things to post on the same day at a post office, one between 10 & 1 and the other after 1! Seriously Kantar start being a little more realistic with your requests if you want us to properly follow your schedule.

I've had this recently as well - I ended up posting them both in the latter slot as I wasn't messing about getting into town early..

Am also tending to get more to post at the post office than a post box which means going into town all the time which is so inconvenient.

Oh and someone who posted a letter to me today had written the day of the week on the envelope...

Saetana

I think the variable times are to take account of post offices which usually do have at least 2 collections a day, sometimes 3. I see no reason why we should post at a particular time in a box with only one collection at 5.30 pm (I always post at least half an hour before collection time). A postbox may be emptied a little early or late but we are talking minutes not hours. There is no way a post box that should have been emptied at 5.30pm will be left until the next day, excepting times when strikes are occurring or extreme weather conditions. I've worked both for Royal Mail (sorting rather than delivery) and Post Office Counters in the past, times are kept to fairly faithfully.

Birdy12

Can someone give me a little advice?

The posting schedule states that I should add a SMART to one of the letters I'm sending. However, the system didn't give me an option to allocate a SMART to the letter when I wanted to change the status to 'ready for posting'. I've checked the FAQ's but there's no advice on this point.

Shall I just send without a SMART?

Cheers, Birdy

StumpyPumpy

Saetana wrote: »

I think the variable times are to take account of post offices which usually do have at least 2 collections a day, sometimes 3. I see no reason why we should post at a particular time in a box with only one collection at 5.30 pm (I always post at least half an hour before collection time). A postbox may be emptied a little early or late but we are talking minutes not hours. There is no way a post box that should have been emptied at 5.30pm will be left until the next day, excepting times when strikes are occurring or extreme weather conditions. I've worked both for Royal Mail (sorting rather than delivery) and Post Office Counters in the past, times are kept to fairly faithfully.

But the whole point of this survey is to have an independent check on whether or not this happens rather than relying on anecdotal evidence of other staff or former staff members.

You only have to review this and the previous thread to see tales of postboxes remaining full to the gunnels for days on end and I have been queried about the posting of some of my test mail and it has been obvious that it has either been collected hours early or hours late. So whose anecdotal evidence should we believe? Yours saying collections are always more or less on time or mine that says they can be hours or days out? Surely the answer is "neither". The answer is to collect actual evidence, by way of, say, an independently run survey.

You "See no reason why we should post at a particular time" my view remains the same. Namely that the survey requests you to post at a specific time: you have agreed to participate in the survey, therefore you should follow the instructions. They have an option to use "any time", but instead usually specify a time period. It may not be the most important of the data points they are collecting, but it is a data point and if they didn't want to collect it, they wouldn't ask for it. It it were only relevant to Post Offices then only then would a time be specified.


SP