Royal Mail Surveys rewarded with Stamps.

molerat

littlemoney wrote: »

I have more stamps than I can use in my lifetime. Has anyone any suggestions/personal experience how I could turn them into cash. I have tried selling to friends but they weren't interests as they also use so few.

molerat wrote: »

They shift fairly well on ebay at about 5-10% off face value with free postage.

I just looked on ebay to shift some of mine. Several 12x1st going for £3.50 to £5 so not worth the effort - how can they afford to sell large quantities at £3.50 ?

luckwudaveit

I recently sold 24x1st for £10.50 +£0.80 P&P. I was keen to charge P&P to use another stamp up and get revenue for it. Free P&P should really be 2nd class, but I don't have of those.

8pumpkinpie8

Everyone should have had this email today I imagine, but as it comes up as a question all the time, I thought I'd post this:

We’re writing to let you know about a change in the time slots which we allocate for your Saturday postings.

Up to now you may have noticed that Saturday postings are allocated slots either before or after midday. Some of you have queried postings scheduled after midday, as most post boxes have last collection times (LATs) before midday on Saturdays.

From September 12th all your Saturday postings will be allocated the same time slot “Before Last Collection.” Please whenever possible post your Saturday items accordingly.

While most of you will have post boxes in your postcode area with a Saturday LAT around midday, we’re aware that some of you may only be able to get to boxes with the new earlier Saturday collection time of 07:00.

If you can’t get to a post box before last collection we’d like you still to post your item on the scheduled date, confirming the LAT at the post box you used, that you posted the item after last collection, and the actual time of posting.

Monitoring Saturday mail presents us with different challenges, and we hope you’ll understand that this change is meant to improve our measurement of Royal Mail’s Saturday collection service.

We’d like to thank you for your continued help.
Kind Regards
Postal Survey Team

luckwudaveit

Yes, I had the email too. It clarifies what I've been doing anyway.

I'm amazed that some areas have an LAT of 7am on Saturdays. All that is collecting is late mail from Friday night, plus any from early risers. That's a terrible service.

custardy

Luckwudaveit wrote: »

Yes, I had the email too. It clarifies what I've been doing anyway.

I'm amazed that some areas have an LAT of 7am on Saturdays. All that is collecting is late mail from Friday night, plus any from early risers. That's a terrible service.

not really. Its an advancement of the 9am COLOD boxes. So they will more than likely be collected around 9-12am.
However to ensure it is collected that day,then get it to box by 7am.
As usual the box will indicate the nearest late box.

chrissycn

I did my training last month and have now progressed to be a full panellist. However, I only received some first class stamps at the start of my training in July and have had nothing since. I assumed the next set of stamps would have been in my first sender pack after training. I would be very grateful if somebody more experienced could advise.

MABLE

chrissycn wrote: »

I did my training last month and have now progressed to be a full panellist. However, I only received some first class stamps at the start of my training in July and have had nothing since. I assumed the next set of stamps would have been in my first sender pack after training. I would be very grateful if somebody more experienced could advise.

With me only only set of stamps during training and once on the live panel received another in my first sender pack and I think I received a set of first day issue stamps.

fraserbooks

I received my stamps and £2.00,love to shop vouchers for posting a parcel in a separate mailing. I had to post a cube during training.) I also got a presentation set of Shakespeare stamps when I was taken on to the panel.

I am suprised how bad some of the incoming mail I is now I have gone live, I received one today that was stamped instead of metered.

stephenliverpool1

Back on the main survey now. Not back in training as I have 'real' things to post next week.

I should now get Xmas stamps and the 2017 diary.

NBLondon

molerat wrote: »

I just looked on ebay to shift some of mine. Several 12x1st going for £3.50 to £5 so not worth the effort - how can they afford to sell large quantities at £3.50 ?

I can only assume these are people who bought in bulk as a business but now won't use them so anything they get back is better than nothing. I use my 1st (for competition entries) but sell the 4xLarge 1st on eBay - usually making between £2.90 and £3.20 - using another one for postage. I then use the proceeds to buy commemorative 1sts and 2nds under face value to go on birthday cards etc. or more NVI (if I can get them really cheap) for competitions during my resting period. I don't know who it is who buys the booklets from me - whether it's collectors who are looking for a specific printing code or just bargain hunters. Either way, it's a small win for me.