Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

LEJC

8pumpkinpie8 wrote: »

So does everyone get a diary and a presentation pack of stamps for Christmas? I don't have anything yet!

usually if you are on the active panel you will be sent a diary and christmas stamps...occaisionally if there are surplus diaries they are sent to the resting panelists either at the end of december or beginning of january.

I was resting this time last year but received a diary.

quoia

custardy wrote: »

Not quite. The box says the last guaranteed time is 9am. it could be cleared right up to that evening.

The post box at one end of my road is a "9am" last collection Monday to Friday.

A while ago I monitored it for about 3 weeks and on weekdays it was only ever emptied once a day and always within 2 or 3 minutes of 17:25

However just 200 yards in the opposite direction is another box that is a 17:30 Mon-Fri. I do not believe this one is ever visited during the day and/or emptied before the last collection time, it being emptied at around 17:40 most days (+/- a minute or 2)

Thing is these 2 post boxes are serviced by different postmen/women in different vans on different collection routes.

The van after visiting the 9am box goes to the local post office (which closes at 18:00) and then trundles around another 3 boxes before heading off into town.

The 17:30 box van goes to 2 others just another few hundred yards away before setting of in the opposite direction.

GetRealBabe

8pumpkinpie8 wrote: »

So does everyone get a diary and a presentation pack of stamps for Christmas? I don't have anything yet!

Hi

Got mine about a week ago.:)

custardy

quoia wrote: »

The post box at one end of my road is a "9am" last collection Monday to Friday.

A while ago I monitored it for about 3 weeks and on weekdays it was only ever emptied once a day and always within 2 or 3 minutes of 17:25

However just 200 yards in the opposite direction is another box that is a 17:30 Mon-Fri. I do not believe this one is ever visited during the day and/or emptied before the last collection time, it being emptied at around 17:40 most days (+/- a minute or 2)

Thing is these 2 post boxes are serviced by different postmen/women in different vans on different collection routes.

The van after visiting the 9am box goes to the local post office (which closes at 18:00) and then trundles around another 3 boxes before heading off into town.

The 17:30 box van goes to 2 others just another few hundred yards away before setting of in the opposite direction.

Well I can break it down. Rm moved from straight collections to collections & collections on delivery(COLOD).
So your later boxes are covered by a set collection duty (covering post offices/heavy boxes and business collections)
The collections are structured and follow tight timings.
COLODs are done b delivery posties alongside their deliveries and the 9am boxes allow a flexible clearance policy to fit in with the delivery timings.

If COLOD is new to your area then collections will run alongside during a bedding in phase to ensure no USO failures.

Pomdren

SW42 wrote: »

I'm not sure how this helps. Presumably, they're not going to fold the paper enough to make the cardboard insert the maximum height, as that means the weekly sending pack would be too thick to go through the letter box. I'd imagine they are going to fold it just the once to put inside the insert, and then the panellists will leave it at that. Might not be 'flat as a pancake' but still wouldn't make it a proper jiffy, as someone pointed out earlier.

Personally, I don't get all the hoo-ha about it all. Guidelines does not say we have to put it inside the insert, nor about making the jiffy bag as thick as possible. Why do people get all annoyed about it? Obviously most panellists do not come here to get further clarification! It's down to TNS to make it clear in the Training Pack and FAQs etc.

As I said last week, I received my sending pack with a jiffy that had been double folded and inserted into the cardboard insert by the sending team. It's a thick wadge of paper so it easily holds the cardboard open. And yes, the sending pack is too thick to go through a letter box, which is the point of all this and does make it a "proper jiffy" as you say.

I do think some people have gotten a bit of a bee in their bonnet about this, but I really don't see the harm in it. No it's not currently in the guidelines, but TNS can update them and change them if they want, and it seems like that's the way they're going.

General_Grant

Pomdren wrote: »

And yes, the sending pack is too thick to go through a letter box, which is the point of all this and does make it a "proper jiffy" as you say.

SW42 wrote of the "weekly sending pack". I believe they meant the pack we receive each week which contains items to post.

With luck that does go through letterboxes - otherwise it may mean a trip to pick it up or arranging re-delivery. I don't believe the point of that pack is to make it more difficult for us.

Actually I don't believe that the point of the jiffy bags is that they should not go through letter boxes.

quoia

General_Grant wrote: »

SW42 wrote of the "weekly sending pack". I believe they meant the pack we receive each week which contains items to post.

With luck that does go through letterboxes - otherwise it may mean a trip to pick it up or arranging re-delivery. I don't believe the point of that pack is to make it more difficult for us.

Actually I don't believe that the point of the jiffy bags is that they should not go through letter boxes.

Putting the once or twice folded sheets of paper inside the little cardboard insert should not make any real difference to the delivery of the posting pack. They can be folded MANY (6 or 8) more times and still only just make the insert the required thickness to stop it collapsing

The posting pack has always come through my letterbox (nothing out of the ordinary - purchased in B&Q) - even when one contained all the cardboard "flat-packs" and the 3 polystyrene inserts for 2 DVD/CD packets AND a CUBE.

The TNS poster had obviously taken care and time to fit all the bits in (I seem to remember 2 or 3 thin elastic bands) in such a way that it was most likely to do so - AND IT DID !


On your second comment it ISN'T the point to stop it coming through your letter box (properly done - 'OVER 1" THICK' - it would fit through mine) BUT the point IS that it does NOT pass through the entire Royal Mail sorting and handling system as a LARGE LETTER. The Jiffy Bag SHOULD be treated as a PARCEL.

Having said that, it IS POSSIBLE that a CORRECT Jiffy parcel may not fit through some letter boxes and the TNS survey IS SPECIFICALLY designed to accommodate this eventuality.

For those that are unobservant and have never noticed ...

... when entering the details for receiving your mail, where you enter the R number and then the SMART code (if you have one) etc., you enter the rest of the info, Time Date Post Mark(s) Stamp info ..... and for LETTERS - Small white, Medium Brown or Large Letter ....

... BUT you never get asked about HOW it was delivered.

However for JIFFYs, AND CD/DVD boxes, CUBES & Medium Parcels ...

...you get an ADDITIONAL question (asked because of the R number you have just entered and the parcel type it pertains to) which is ....

How did you receive the item?

Direct from postman on first delivery attempt
Left outside/placed in shared entrance
An Attempted Delivery card was left



and they show you this image.

Now WHY would they do that for a flat as a pancake Jiffy bag that could probably be folded in half and STILL go through almost every letterbox in the land?

shaneym

Hi guys, forgive me as this has probably been mentioned loads of times before but I couldn't see it in the search. After being a survey member for 2 years, I got an email out of the blue yesterday saying.......


"We are writing to inform you that Royal Mail has notified us that they are aware you are taking part in our survey. Unfortunately this means that we have had to remove you from the survey with immediate effect." (etc. etc. etc)


What I don't understand is that, these surveys are very well known throughout the royal mail and especially with postmen and that being so, a huge majority of the items received are obviously survey items. I can always tell a survey item, especially in standard envelopes as you can clearly feel the SMART. Surely every postman must know he is delivering to a panel member ?

stephenliverpool1

I agree. Especially when you get rewards and post, saying 'if undelivered, please return to Swan Lane', etc.

I think that most, if not all, post man can work out when people are doing the survey.

You need to play the game to make sure you benefit.

custardy

shaneym wrote: »

Hi guys, forgive me as this has probably been mentioned loads of times before but I couldn't see it in the search. After being a survey member for 2 years, I got an email out of the blue yesterday saying.......


"We are writing to inform you that Royal Mail has notified us that they are aware you are taking part in our survey. Unfortunately this means that we have had to remove you from the survey with immediate effect." (etc. etc. etc)


What I don't understand is that, these surveys are very well known throughout the royal mail and especially with postmen and that being so, a huge majority of the items received are obviously survey items. I can always tell a survey item, especially in standard envelopes as you can clearly feel the SMART. Surely every postman must know he is delivering to a panel member ?

People need to realise. Most posties dont care about the survey.
Test letters are going through the network in many forms.
Most IME couldnt tell a test letter from normal mail.