Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

Beckyy

I don't know why they make it so close to the lower parcel size, unless they want to test if people try to send it as the smaller one. It just makes it harder for panel members how get asked that.

17lbp

I recently finished my 6 months on the postal survey but got an invite to do 2 weeks on the correctly delivered mail survey; i'm now on my 2nd week of this. I was wondering if its likely i will be asked to do the correctly delivered survey for longer than the 2 weeks or is it generally just 2 weeks that most do it for - seems like quite easy money to me so the longer the better

redagila

17lbp wrote: »

I recently finished my 6 months on the postal survey but got an invite to do 2 weeks on the correctly delivered mail survey; i'm now on my 2nd week of this. I was wondering if its likely i will be asked to do the correctly delivered survey for longer than the 2 weeks or is it generally just 2 weeks that most do it for - seems like quite easy money to me so the longer the better

I know some people have reported that they do this continuously but I only ever have it for 2 weeks at a time. However, at times I have been asked to take part again very quickly.
I also have invites to the unaddressed survey from time to time and in fact are doing both of these at the moment as well as the full postings.
I love these extra surveys - as you say really easy earnings.
You just have to make sure that you sign up immediately because they become full quickly. If you are off the main postings, it is worth logging in daily as often the invitation will be on the home page before you receive an invitation email.

Saetana

Typical TNS - three weeks training and I got the email putting me on hold as space is full in my area. Last year I got an email putting me on the main panel three days after receiving the same "on hold" email, wonder how long it will take this time? :P

sheramber

I think it is an administrative thing.

They need to cease you before they can add you to the main panel.

Robinette

Is anyone else receiving SMARTs for use in test letters and having to return them straight away? Sometimes they even show as needing to be returned before I have received them! What a waste of time!! :mad:

Hollie_

Robinette wrote: »

Is anyone else receiving SMARTs for use in test letters and having to return them straight away? Sometimes they even show as needing to be returned before I have received them! What a waste of time!! :mad:

That's happened to me before. TNS sent me a SMART (not another panelist) because I needed one for my envelope to send the following day. When I received the SMART I checked online and it said to return it. I could only assume this was an error on their behalf as they had only just sent the SMART so I associated it with my envelope as normal and the warning disappeared.

StumpyPumpy

Hollie_ wrote: »

Sometimes it says that for me, but if I need one for an envelope that needs a SMART, I just add them to that envelope and it stops telling me I need to return it and instead says "Associated".

SMARTs may be asked to be returned for a number of reasons, usually because you have too much stock and they need to be redistributed or because of a failure of the SMART.

They may have sent you a SMART (or you've got one from another panellist) and on later inspection of the survey results found it has not registered going through the postal system even though sender and receiver both got it. That is why you should do as they ask and send it back to them to check it out. It isn't difficult and it doesn't cost you anything. It is pointless sending a malfunctioning SMART on to someone else who will then have to return it instead of you.

SP

Hollie_

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

SMARTs may be asked to be returned for a number of reasons, usually because you have too much stock and they need to be redistributed or because of a failure of the SMART.

They may have sent you a SMART (or you've got one from another panellist) and on later inspection of the survey results found it has not registered going through the postal system even though sender and receiver both got it. That is why you should do as they ask and send it back to them to check it out. It isn't difficult and it doesn't cost you anything. It is pointless sending a malfunctioning SMART on to someone else who will then have to return it instead of you.

SP

I think in my case it was an error on their behalf, as TNS sent me the SMART after I requested one, and a letter telling me to use it with my next thing to post (which was the following day), on the same day that my online account was telling me to return that same SMART. I'm not sure that they would pick up on a malfunctioning SMART that quickly, (it might not have passed through the Royal Mail pipeline until the next day - they're not immediately going to mark it as malfunctioned if they can't pick up any data from it on the first day, and they would give chance for any delays before saying it wasn't working), which is why it seems more likely that it was just a mistake.

If the SMART came from another panelist and I needed to use it but they asked for it back, I would understand that the batteries might need to be recharged but this came directly from TNS, and they also know I didn't have any in stock which is the reason I requested one in the first place.

I would just e-mail them and ask what they wanted me to do if it happened again and came directly from TNS as I guess we can't know for sure what happened!

redagila

sheramber wrote: »

I think it is an administrative thing.

They need to cease you before they can add you to the main panel.

I don't agree with you. If that was the procedure we would all receive emails "ceasing" us after our training so we could be put on the full panel.