Royal Mail Online Business Account thread

Strapped

Buy them from the company's own website; it's much cheaper.

GTsIan

Strapped wrote: »

Buy them from the company's own website; it's much cheaper.

This is what we have done, very cheap compared to printing your own, and very adhesive. We have gone for the type which also includes our returns address to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

We moved over to OBA approx. 6 weeks ago, which was quite straight forward to be honest. We were on a franking machine prior to that, and with the price hikes it was a no-brainer. Getting the grey bags was a problem to begin with, but seems to have settled down now.

alx2013

So today I have 6 orders:

1 LL, 1 2nd class, 1 1st class, 1 Europe, 1 U.S.A and 1 Australia.

So each order has it's own huge bag! There must be a better way!
(other than getting more orders and I'm working on that!)

theonlywayisup

alx2013 wrote: »

So today I have 6 orders:

1 LL, 1 2nd class, 1 1st class, 1 Europe, 1 U.S.A and 1 Australia.

So each order has it's own huge bag! There must be a better way!
(other than getting more orders and I'm working on that!)

What OBA codes are you using for USA and Australia. On DMO they would be in the same bag unless they are different services, ie ISF and AS.

Strapped

I also noticed the hard way this morning that the mail bags supplied have a smaller opening than the max size of a parcel. Fortunately, the parcel I needed to fit in was soft so I stuffed it in, but I can see a future scenario where it won't fit :undecided Guess I'll just use a bin bag in that case?

theonlywayisup

Strapped wrote: »

I also noticed the hard way this morning that the mail bags supplied have a smaller opening than the max size of a parcel. Fortunately, the parcel I needed to fit in was soft so I stuffed it in, but I can see a future scenario where it won't fit :undecided Guess I'll just use a bin bag in that case?

I frequently have parcels too big, they just get stacked alongside the bags when the RM driver comes to collect.

Are you having a collection or delivering?

alx2013

theonlywayisup wrote: »

What OBA codes are you using for USA and Australia. On DMO they would be in the same bag unless they are different services, ie ISF and AS.

You select OLA then drop down menu either 'rest of world packets' or 'rest of world packets zone 2' - prices are different for the 2 regions...

Strapped

theonlywayisup wrote: »

I frequently have parcels too big, they just get stacked alongside the bags when the RM driver comes to collect.

Are you having a collection or delivering?

Dropping off at the PO.

theonlywayisup

alx2013 wrote: »

You select OLA then drop down menu either 'rest of world packets' or 'rest of world packets zone 2' - prices are different for the 2 regions...

Thank you. I don't use it as DMO selects it for you automatically.

We still use one bag for ROW, regardless of zone, so it may be worthwhile asking your collection officer or place you deposit bags.

theonlywayisup

Strapped wrote: »

Dropping off at the PO.

Ah so I assume they may insist on bags. With a collection it is easy just to pile them up.