Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

3010

MsBlonde wrote: »

What happens if the voucher company goes bust ? Like the kingfisher group did ?

Has kingfisher gone bust? I thought they owned B+Q and a range of other DIY shops.

dbrookf

3010 wrote: »

It is just very random. For the unaddressed their will be a invite sent by email. For the correctly delivered you will get a invite on your home page.

Do we actually get more back in vouchers than we spend in postage?

anamenottaken

dbrookf wrote: »

Do we actually get more back in vouchers than we spend in postage?

Even if it were only a penny, you would receive more in vouchers than you pay in postage for the Unaddressed and Correctly Delivered surveys! You don't pay to receive either of those categories. BTW, the voucher value is £5.

AIUI, where a panellist is requested to pay at a PO in order to send a parcel, they receive at least the value of postage in vouchers BEFORE the item is posted and then another payment afterwards (but I haven't received the email, I've just been reading this thread).

anamenottaken

MsBlonde wrote: »

What happens if the voucher company goes bust ? Like the kingfisher group did ?

When Woolworth's went belly-up the vouchers were still valid at other places - though I did get a refusal at one other retailer who said they couldn't take it because the Woolworth's logo appeared on the front. (Another shop in the same group did, correctly, accept it!)

If L2S itself failed and you had the voucher, it would mean a loss to you unless, as a goodwill gesture, a retailer was willing to offer a discount of some kind. If TNS had a stock of them, they would lose out and have to find another method to pay panellists.

LEJC

anamenottaken wrote: »

Even if it were only a penny, you would receive more in vouchers than you pay in postage for the Unaddressed and Correctly Delivered surveys! You don't pay to receive either of those categories. BTW, the voucher value is £5.

AIUI, where a panellist is requested to pay at a PO in order to send a parcel, they receive at least the value of postage in vouchers BEFORE the item is posted and then another payment afterwards (but I haven't received the email, I've just been reading this thread).

Heres a copy of the email regaring the APL Parcels...and the l2s vouchers...
AND also the introduction of the golden smart

EDITED..to remove details as a fellow poster has suggested that the content of emails are confidential.
What was posted here was not IMO anything that wasnt widely available on the internet...but I have chosen to remove it.

rosy

Have said before on here that I have concerns about the validity of the survey generally - I had to post a cube the other day ( stamped already ) and it was VERY obvious that the assistant knew it was a survey item. I won't go into details but I know he realised due to the contents ( every time I post something at the PO they ask what's in the parcel ) and other features on the box. I feel I should email and let TNS know this has happened - I wonder if they might stop me participating if this is seen as anonymity being compromised.

LEJC

rosy wrote: »

Have said before on here that I have concerns about the validity of the survey generally - I had to post a cube the other day ( stamped already ) and it was VERY obvious that the assistant knew it was a survey item. I won't go into details but I know he realised due to the contents ( every time I post something at the PO they ask what's in the parcel ) and other features on the box. I feel I should email and let TNS know this has happened - I wonder if they might stop me participating if this is seen as anonymity being compromised.

But in fairness the post office usually ask me whats in a parcel whether its a survey parcel or not....at christmas I was asked when I was posting a chocolate selection box to my godson!


If you email TNS then its possible you will be removed from the panel....I guess thats your choice
Although remember because you know your posting a test item it doesnt follow that everyone else does and sometimes you can make the wrong assumption over a conversation.

anamenottaken

LEJC wrote: »

Golden SMART: And, as an incentive to collect and open all your items, from February 2014, each week we will be randomly inserting a Golden SMART into one of the parcel-type items. If you are the lucky recipient of a Golden SMART, you will receive £100 Love2Shop vouchers.

Thanks for posting the email content.

I see that the first winner has been announced.

If they are putting a "Golden SMART" into one of the items, I wonder whether this mean they are posting a parcel from West Bromwich which will look like normal post or whether it will be in the packaging they send for us to send on to another panellist. If a member here is so lucky to win one of the weekly prizes, perhaps they will tell us.

LEJC

anamenottaken wrote: »

Thanks for posting the email content.

I see that the first winner has been announced.

If they are putting a "Golden SMART" into one of the items, I wonder whether this mean they are posting a parcel from West Bromwich which will look like normal post or whether it will be in the packaging they send for us to send on to another panellist. If a member here is so lucky to win one of the weekly prizes, perhaps they will tell us.

I wondered this ...but thinking about it I think it will be sent out directly to the winner...if they send it to someone else to send on then that will make that person think they have won..

rosy

LEJC wrote: »

But in fairness the post office usually ask me whats in a parcel whether its a survey parcel or not....at christmas I was asked when I was posting a chocolate selection box to my godson!


If you email TNS then its possible you will be removed from the panel....I guess thats your choice
Although remember because you know your posting a test item it doesnt follow that everyone else does and sometimes you can make the wrong assumption over a conversation.

I honestly wasn't putting 2and 2 together and making 5;)I know they need to ask what is in a parcel for safety reasons, it wasn't the fact they asked what the contents were that alerted me. It was just that you will always have to say what the parcel contains and if you say the truth about what is in there ( as TNS say you should do ) the nature of the contents is quite unusual and this assistant clearly knew, it definitely wasn't that I was making the wrong assumption on this occasion. If there was a range of contents ( probably too costly for them to do )or something more generic it would be less identifiable as a test item. I do feel it should be possible to highlight issues like this and post arriving with identifying marks etc without having to wonder if you would be dismissed.