Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

Busylizzie

NBLondon wrote: »

Well I'm on re-training for my third stint and I'm fed-up of it already. Exactly the same stuff for three weeks out of four (one small white and one jiffy bag). No diary and no Christmas Stamps. No magazines (not even Property Week).


Meanwhile on the Unaddressed Mail survey, phone call after phone call asking me to confirm that what I put in on the website is correct.


I'm starting to wonder if it's worth the effort...

That's strange. I have never had a phone call about the UM survey. Usually only get items one day a week so it really is money for old rope

scarlet_sky

redagila wrote: »

They update the website on Thursday pm for any Smarts they want returned, so suggest you wait & check on Friday am - you may well find they ask for the return of the ones you have just received!!

Thank you. I will check tomorrow. I received another 2 this morning to add to the growing pile!

wideband

NBLondon wrote: »

Well I'm on re-training for my third stint and I'm fed-up of it already. Exactly the same stuff for three weeks out of four (one small white and one jiffy bag). No diary and no Christmas Stamps. No magazines (not even Property Week).

Ditto, except completed 5th week then receive a message that I'm being rested as they are oversubscribed in my area...arghh!


I did get the stamps and diary though.

Meanwhile on the Unaddressed Mail survey, phone call after phone call asking me to confirm that what I put in on the website is correct.

Usually get one phone call to confirm non receipt of an item each time I participate, no issue with that.

8pumpkinpie8

NBLondon wrote: »

Well I'm on re-training for my third stint and I'm fed-up of it already. Exactly the same stuff for three weeks out of four (one small white and one jiffy bag). No diary and no Christmas Stamps. No magazines (not even Property Week).


Meanwhile on the Unaddressed Mail survey, phone call after phone call asking me to confirm that what I put in on the website is correct.


I'm starting to wonder if it's worth the effort...

They called me about UMS too - obviously if I had received the item I would have put it on the system, like I do all of the other ones for the last 6 months of UMS I've done. Grr.

And, as I whinged before, this time my UMS is for 4 weeks and I have to put sticky labels on everything and send it back in a plastic bag once a week. Not worth the £5 L2S vouchers, this time.

stephenliverpool1

If they ever ask me to send my items back for the UMS, I will politely decline to do the survey.

Skinster

Anytime Iv done the Unaddressed Iv never been asked to send anything back to them. Had one answer message left & few emails to complete about non receipt of a leaflet or two.

NBLondon

I suppose it could be an actual problem in my area - because it's the specific leaflets that aren't appearing and I'm confirming as not received. It's just annoying (as pumpkinpie knows) to be repeatedly asked if you know what you're doing when you've been doing it all year!


Mind you, as other discussions about writing on envelopes and putting paper inside them show - many panellists apparently don't :-)

stephenliverpool1

I sometimes get asked to confirm what I have done (on RM survey, UMS and CDS). I never change any of the data I have entered as I don't make mistakes. I do find it annoying when TNS question what I have entered in any survey but hey they have a job to do.

quoia

8pumpkinpie8 wrote: »

They called me about UMS too - obviously if I had received the item I would have put it on the system, like I do all of the other ones for the last 6 months of UMS I've done. Grr.

And, as I whinged before, this time my UMS is for 4 weeks and I have to put sticky labels on everything and send it back in a plastic bag once a week.Not worth the £5 L2S vouchers, this time.

Nothing to do with whinging.

This is sometimes the case.

Occasionally they actually want to collect and presumably examine the unaddressed mail to record the various types of flyers, leaflets, documents, free samples, newspapers etc. and perhaps even determine their origins or whatever for statistical analysis.

The online recording only captures quantities against a period or date.

When I did this the entire cost to me of attaching a provided pre-printed sticky date label to each item, saving them in a prepaid returns envelope and popping them in the post could not have exceeded 5 minutes of my time for the entire survey, and financially was absolutely zero.

I'm happy to do this 52 weeks of the year if they want me to.

redagila

quoia wrote: »

Nothing to do with whinging.

This is sometimes the case.

Occasionally they actually want to collect and presumably examine the unaddressed mail to record the various types of flyers, leaflets, documents, free samples, newspapers etc. and perhaps even determine their origins or whatever for statistical analysis.

The online recording only captures quantities against a period or date.

When I did this the entire cost to me of attaching a provided pre-printed sticky date label to each item, saving them in a prepaid returns envelope and popping them in the post could not have exceeded 5 minutes of my time for the entire survey, and financially was absolutely zero.

I'm happy to do this 52 weeks of the year if they want me to.

Me too - it really is no effort