Loose Women Competition 19th - 30th May

Scorpioangel

As I chose to reduce postal and text entries a couple of years ago due to the amount I was spending, and the massive hikes in the cost of postage I certainly wouldn't send multiple postal entries to a comp; going postal (as some people have been over this... :-) ) will simply mean I enter less of them. With the odds of winning anything so high it isn't worth the extra effort and as my total prize haul this year consists of a set of shampoo + conditioner and tickets to a concert which I had no advance notice of and turned up on the day of the gig and I got home too late to use them! My luck is non existent of late.


Best thing to do is cut the postal, text and phone comps unless you are a regular winner from them and spend the money going on holiday like I do - hola from sunny Spain

chealehay

Do postal entries have to be stamped or can they be hand delivered?
If they can be hand delivered what would stop someone local to the address from printings out thousands if not more and giving themselves a very big advantage?
No I don't live local, far too far for me to try it.
Actually if someone was to do this then they might revert to allowing the internet entries and stopping the postal.

JessicAhh

I know you can hand deliver for local newspaper comps etc, but not sure how national PO Boxes work?

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that, because the PO Boxes are within the Royal Mail, all mail has to be stamped - even if you know the location of the PO Box-holding post office and hand deliver it there. Not sure if that's correct though...

You can't, for example, have mail or packages from any couriers other than Royal Mail or Parcelforce delivered to a PO Box.

mjm3346

chealehay wrote: »

Do postal entries have to be stamped or can they be hand delivered?
If they can be hand delivered what would stop someone local to the address from printings out thousands if not more and giving themselves a very big advantage?
No I don't live local, far too far for me to try it.
Actually if someone was to do this then they might revert to allowing the internet entries and stopping the postal.

Very unlikely that you access the PO Box without going through the postal system unless you own it.


Actually they cover it in the T&C's

Unless otherwise specified, personal and hand deliveries will not be accepted