Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

NAR

My wife went in to our Post Office with a cube and asked for it to be posted first class APL. The assistant said she had never heard of APL? My wife said well it is £3.20 and he posted one here a few weeks ago. Strange that Post Office staff don't know their own terminology!

custardy

NAR wrote: »

My wife went in to our Post Office with a cube and asked for it to be posted first class APL. The assistant said she had never heard of APL? My wife said well it is £3.20 and he posted one here a few weeks ago. Strange that Post Office staff don't know their own terminology!

If you weren't on the survey,would you have posted via APL?

molerat

My training pack with 2 items arrived this morning, a letter and a jiffy for sending next week, plus my 2 books of stamps.

The printed sheet shows slightly different to the on line sheet in that the printed version has the jiffy as hand written address and the on line as printed label - no label for it in the pack though.

Sorted out my nearest post boxes but the jiffy has to be posted at a PO and my local sub-PO does not appear on the list, it is not on the RM branch finder either but is on the PO branch finder. It has only been open a few months and replaced a now closed one a few streets away which is still showing as current on TNS. Sent them an e-mail so will wait and see.

Re my holiday they said just send them on the same day whenever !

NAR

custardy wrote: »

If you weren't on the survey,would you have posted via APL?

I have no idea as I have never posted a cube before.

I got my wife to state 1st class APL as that is what is stated on the posting schedule.

So your point is?

custardy

NAR wrote: »

I have no idea as I have never posted a cube before.

I got my wife to state 1st class APL as that is what is stated on the posting schedule.

So your point is?

Exactly. So if your wife had gone to post a parcel. She would never have used the term APL.
You wont find it referenced on any customer literature or the websites.

NAR

So why is it used on the posting schedule then?

custardy

sheramber wrote: »

Do you need to ask specifically for an APL or is one given automatically when you pay for postage?

GetRealBabe wrote: »

Hi

I didn't have to ask.

NAR wrote: »

So why is it used on the posting schedule then?

Probably to define to you the type of postage they want used.
Eg not using stamps
Would Horizon label have worked better for you?

michaelalou

I hope I don't come across as thick asking this but, the incentive for joining is stamps, yes?

elsien

A pack of large letter stamps and 12 first class stamps every month.
A presentation pack every quarter.
£2 love to shop voucher for parcels you have to hand over at a post office counter.
And £5 love to shop vouchers if you manage to get onto a correctly delivered or unaddressed mail survey, although those are not regular as they're first come first served.
I think that's the basics.

Jo4

elsien wrote: »

A pack of large letter stamps and 12 first class stamps every month.
A presentation pack every quarter.
£2 love to shop voucher for parcels you have to hand over at a post office counter.
And £5 love to shop vouchers if you manage to get onto a correctly delivered or unaddressed mail survey, although those are not regular as they're first come first served.
I think that's the basics.

Thanks for this info. :j :beer: :money:

It has served as a reminder to me because I was supposed to receive presentaion stamps in January which I didn't receive until February so I should have received presentation stamps in April and this month but I haven't so I must email them although I am being rested this month.