Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

redagila

More envelopes received with paper taken out before posting. Why don't the posters realise that as the postage is £3 it is necessary to include it for the weight?

verybigchris

redagila wrote: »

More envelopes received with paper taken out before posting. Why don't the posters realise that as the postage is £3 it is necessary to include it for the weight?

The weight of the paper shouldn't make any difference.

£3 postage (or £2.60 second class) covers a small parcel of any weight up to 1kg, and (without getting my scales out!) I'd guess the packages only weigh about 100g without paper, and maybe 150g with.

redagila

verybigchris wrote: »

The weight of the paper shouldn't make any difference.

£3 postage (or £2.60 second class) covers a small parcel of any weight up to 1kg, and (without getting my scales out!) I'd guess the packages only weigh about 100g without paper, and maybe 150g with.

Haven't posted anything like this recently for myself, so OK wrong reason then.


BUT the paper is included in the envelope by TNS for a reason and should not be kept by the poster - we can all keep the paper we receive in the same letters when we receive them.

lijaloo

Anyone else received the email about sending and receiving parcels and the need to go into the post office to buy the postage. Going to be paid upfront with Love2Shop vouchers to at least the value of the postage and then once posting has been confirmed another £2 voucher is added to your monthly account. Then there is also the new golden smart which they will put into one parcel a week which could win you £100 worth of vouchers.

lesliejack

lijaloo wrote: »

Anyone else received the email about sending and receiving parcels and the need to go into the post office to buy the postage. Going to be paid upfront with Love2Shop vouchers to at least the value of the postage and then once posting has been confirmed another £2 voucher is added to your monthly account. Then there is also the new golden smart which they will put into one parcel a week which could win you £100 worth of vouchers.

Yes me too. See how it goes, we can always resign!

BODLED

lijaloo wrote: »

Anyone else received the email about sending and receiving parcels and the need to go into the post office to buy the postage. Going to be paid upfront with Love2Shop vouchers to at least the value of the postage and then once posting has been confirmed another £2 voucher is added to your monthly account. Then there is also the new golden smart which they will put into one parcel a week which could win you £100 worth of vouchers.

I have sent one £3.00 box via this method and have not as yet received the £2.00 incentive, think I will start keeping my postage receipt and logging when payment made.

Chamby

BODLED wrote: »

I have sent one £3.00 box via this method and have not as yet received the £2.00 incentive, think I will start keeping my postage receipt and logging when payment made.

i too have sent one of the £3 boxes and not got my £2 either so your not alone

i just assumed i would get it when i got my next lot of stamps so hope im right

BODLED

Chamby wrote: »

i too have sent one of the £3 boxes and not got my £2 either so your not alone

i just assumed i would get it when i got my next lot of stamps so hope im right

I hope you are right, due to this being a new pilot scheme I am considering keeping a log to see if they do deliver the incentives.:)

anamenottaken

I certainly keep a note of expected L2S vouchers and date of receipt of stamp incentives.

I also make a note of when I receive items too. So I was able to respond recently to settle a query where it seems the system had recorded an incorrect receipt date a fortnight earlier.

SpecialBrew_2

To be honest I think that requiring us to pay cash over the counter for automated postage labels while reimbursing us upfront (I love how they bolded that bit - it almost looks like they're doing us a favour!) with Love2Shop vouchers is a step too far.

I don't mind the idea of receiving L2S vouchers as an incentive, even though I don't use many of the outlets that take them (Boots is probably the only one I use regularly, and even that only amounts to three or four times a year). What I do object to is the idea of money that was already cash in my pocket and acceptable anywhere suddenly becoming money that's only acceptable in a limited number of places as a result of participation in the scheme.

Leaving aside the £2 L2S incentive for the moment, I'd have to part with £5.20 in cold hard cash to post a second class medium parcel over the counter. I'd be 'reimbursed' for this (after a fashion) with a £6 L2S voucher. A useful 80p profit on the face of it, but the reality of it is that I can no longer pay my rent or bills with my £5.20 or put it towards debt - it's now only good for Boots and Halfords etc.

With the one parcel-type item a month average that's now being promised, that represents between £36 and £62.40 a year of money that would formerly have been mine to do what I liked with that would be limited in this way. As if making demands on our own money wasn't enough, we're supposed to accept that the changes could well make additional demands on our time - 'these items will be too big to fit through a normal-sized letterbox, so it is possible that they might need to be collected from your Delivery Office, or for you to arrange redelivery'.

I appreciate that there are people who do manage to find plenty of genuine value to them in Boots and the other L2S outlets and typically spend a lot of money there, but I don't think participation in the scheme has much to offer now for those aiming to earn more and spend less. I'd rather give up £2.70 worth of stamps every week than allow TNS to decide where I can spend my money and have no real idea when it's going to happen, so I'm bowing out of this one. Good luck to everyone who continues to stick it out though - I really do hope it pays off for you.