Royal Mail second class problems

charlies_mum · 29 March 2016 at 7:19PM

in_the_Cotswolds wrote: »

If it's any help Royal Mail will be scanning every parcel with either a 2D barcode or a 3D smart code. This will even in time eliminate the red Recorded Delivery and the Blue Special Delivery stickers.

To get the barcoded labels you need to buy a new printer that costs about £250, and it will only apply to parcels and not letters or large letters (which account for about 80% of my post)

in_the_Cotswolds · 29 March 2016 at 9:53PM

charlies_mum wrote: »

To get the barcoded labels you need to buy a new printer that costs about £250, and it will only apply to parcels and not letters or large letters (which account for about 80% of my post)

Large letters are already coming through with barcodes on them.

charlies_mum · 30 March 2016 at 5:51PM

in_the_Cotswolds wrote: »

Large letters are already coming through with barcodes on them.

In that case I need to talk to Royal Mail again as that's not what the told me

winspiration · 31 March 2016 at 12:02AM

My understanding was that it wouldn't apply if you used the BPL / BPR codes on OBA - but in any case it seems to have gone extremely quiet on that front, after the huge push to force everyone onto the barcoded system!