Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

heatherks

3010 wrote: »

Could be worth reporting.

thanks for your reply .. i have just done that too late to phone them today so have sent them an email with all the details

3010

heatherks wrote: »

thanks for your reply .. i have just done that too late to phone them today so have sent them an email with all the details

I'm sure they will be interested. It is not like we are not being given anything back in return. If they were going to do that they should have just used 5 first class stamps. Don't know how the box got through the PO counter. :eek:

On another note the vouchers for the paying to send boxes I will use in Iceland to buy small items like bread and milk to get the money back on items I would buy anyway.

Queen81

3010 wrote: »

It depends what database TNS are using. You could try and email or call them and ask. Details are quoted above.

Emailed them thanks

Chocmonster7

Back on the full testing panel, first item I receive to log is a jiffy which the sender has decided didn't need the extra blank paper inside. As the postage was done using a franking machine I assume this came via a company who desperately needed paper for their printer!

redagila

heatherks wrote: »

i have seen it all now ...!!!!!!!

whoever posted a cube box to me have got a cheek ......looks like they kept the vouchers they were issued with to pay for postage and committed fraud .... They carefully cut out £3 stamp from another envelope and glued on to the box you could see the brown envelope round the edges of the stamp
(( according to schedule inside box it should be £3-20)) luckily i didn't get a not enough postage slip to pay the difference

That's interesting. I received a cube the other day bearing a £3 stamp. When I entered it, I was asked to confirm whether my entry of "stamped" was correct.
Today, I had a call from TNS, asking me about the cube details again. Luckily I had kept it. He was checking the colour of the stamp (i.e. purple for a stamp - gold for an APL) as it seems people do not understand the difference between a stamp and APL type stamp!!
Wonder if this was another "recycled" stamp.

BrianS2014

redagila wrote: »

That's interesting. I received a cube the other day bearing a £3 stamp. When I entered it, I was asked to confirm whether my entry of "stamped" was correct.
Today, I had a call from TNS, asking me about the cube details again. Luckily I had kept it. He was checking the colour of the stamp (i.e. purple for a stamp - gold for an APL) as it seems people do not understand the difference between a stamp and APL type stamp!!
Wonder if this was another "recycled" stamp.

It may be that the sender thought a stamp would do and bought it before taking the item to the post office, or the printer at the PO was not working properly and the post office clerk had no other option than to use a normal stamp.

heatherks

redagila wrote: »

That's interesting. I received a cube the other day bearing a £3 stamp. When I entered it, I was asked to confirm whether my entry of "stamped" was correct.
Today, I had a call from TNS, asking me about the cube details again. Luckily I had kept it. He was checking the colour of the stamp (i.e. purple for a stamp - gold for an APL) as it seems people do not understand the difference between a stamp and APL type stamp!!
Wonder if this was another "recycled" stamp.

i just entered in other price it had asked me £3-20 or £2-80
i know in my post office they weigh it just to check enough postage is on when i have handed it in ( and a few times asked what was in it lol )

heatherks

BrianS2014 wrote: »

I the post office clerk had no other option than to use a normal stamp.

it was definately a stamp cut off from a previous jiffy bag/ brown type envelope it was too thick and obvious to me to be a normal stamp ..can only think assistant at post office was too busy to notice

heatherks

Chocmonster7 wrote: »

Back on the full testing panel, first item I receive to log is a jiffy which the sender has decided didn't need the extra blank paper inside. As the postage was done using a franking machine I assume this came via a company who desperately needed paper for their printer!

happening quite often lately

lesleyb

I have been on the panel for a few years now and luckily don't have many problems.
I did have a cube to post a couple of weeks ago and when I went to the Post Office they were encouraging people to use the new self service tills so the cube that I sent off had a different APL on it to the one that I would have got had I paid at the counter.
TNS phoned me when it was received to ask if I had put a stamp on the parcel.
I explained that it had been done using the self service till and it was not a stamp but a smaller APL, still gold coloured but a different size.
I can see that it might have been confusing for the receiving panellist who would have been expecting a regular APL.:)