Posting back the PIP claim forms advice needed

Bananas123

hello,

i just use the brown enclosed envelope and post in the local post box, have had no problems yet, 10's of letters.

i also read, if you send it out signed delivery, there is more chance of it getting misplaced, but dunno if that is a complete myth ???

(presuming, the standard letters just go into a pile, and the signed ones, the same pile, having been subject to human error of the postman / secretary opening them etc ?)

but dunno....

you can just ask for a till receipt at the post office though (as proof), and then post it that way ?,

good luck

MoneyMate

Cynical_Hermit wrote: »

Did you put it in a separate envelope to the one they provide? I'm not sure if I can mark the freepost envelope as special delivery or whether i should put it all inside a different envelope.

Yes then straight to the post office :beer:

p00hsticks

Alice_Holt wrote: »

I think sending it by recorded delivery will delay it getting from the DWP postroom to the DWP dept dealing with your claim.

A lot of DWPs mail (including PIP claims I think) no longer gets sent round internally within the department in paper form - the mail handling depot opens the post and immediately scans it. It's then picked up electronically by the DWP processors. the original content is then either destroyed after a period of time or immediately returned to the sender.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/529807/new-dwp-postal-addresses-june-2016.pdf

Dragonqueen

Sorry to be picky but (as an ex Post Office Manager...)There is no such thing as "recorded delivery" - that is now "Special Delivery".

Send it back 1st Class Signed For - and you have a proof of acceptance on the RM website, with a name and a time of acceptance.

We send all GP PIP forms by 1st SF and we just quote the date of acceptance and the name on the RM website if DWP contact us chasing paperwork.

Oh and use the envelope provided, just get the PO to put the stamps over the paid for post bit

custardy

Dragonqueen wrote: »

Sorry to be picky but (as an ex Post Office Manager...)There is no such thing as "recorded delivery" - that is now "Special Delivery".

Send it back 1st Class Signed For - and you have a proof of acceptance on the RM website, with a name and a time of acceptance.

We send all GP PIP forms by 1st SF and we just quote the date of acceptance and the name on the RM website if DWP contact us chasing paperwork.

Oh and use the envelope provided, just get the PO to put the stamps over the paid for post bit

Nope,I think you mean 'registered post' which became Special Delivery.
Recorded delivery became Signed For.

Bananas123

please can you guys tell me the difference between a "receipt" (from the post office till) and "proof of postage" (handwritten)

> is the till receipt, not by default, also "proof of postage" ?

thanks for any help!!!

GlasweJen

Bananas123 wrote: »

please can you guys tell me the difference between a "receipt" (from the post office till) and "proof of postage" (handwritten)

> is the till receipt, not by default, also "proof of postage" ?

thanks for any help!!!

No sorry, that would be enabling you and you told me I'm not allowed to enable people in your nicely worded private message.

Quite frankly I'm astounded you can't work it out, after all I'm the one who apparently can't read. If you read your receipt it would give you a clue.

Bananas123

GlasweJen wrote: »

No sorry, that would be enabling you and you told me I'm not allowed to enable people in your nicely worded private message.

Quite frankly I'm astounded you can't work it out, after all I'm the one who apparently can't read. If you read your receipt it would give you a clue.

don't really see how that has anything to do with the post office ? / thread / context ?

don't see how stalking random people in threads is helpful either > you are the one continuing your rhetoric, directly to me ?

also, you need to reference what an enabler is > it is fulfilling your own, desires, whilst providing people with no help / caustic advise.

(a bit like following somebody around, in random threads, not answering question / posting on topic, being negative and immaturely venting)

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to other people > regarding the postoffice question.

i went to the post office and said "could i post this and have proof of purchase"

the owner said "do you want proof of postage or a receipt"

i said "i don't know the difference"

he shouted at me "ONE IS PROOF OF POSTAGE, ONE IS A RECEIPT"

i was a bit confused, as how is a receipt from their till, from their post office not "proof" ?

thanks for any help.

random petulence / insults also accepted.

GlasweJen

Oh for crying out loud, if the receipt has the post code printed on it then you can use it as proof of postage. If it's just a till receipt for a book of first class stamps then it's not proof of postage. Whenever I post a parcel the post office type the post code into the machine and it generates on the receipt.

If you take a freepost item and don't upgrade to signed for or special delivery then there is no receipt generated and so you need a proof of postage certificate.

Bananas123

well, in that case >

1) my local post office owner is a angry !!!!!!!

and

2) royal mail are making workers needlessley hand write "proof" on little pieces of paper (which takes ages... watching them squint at the address on the till, all angry looking...).

....pretty sure there is a few ££££££££££££££££££££ to be saved, not making everybody at the post office angry whilst needlessley jumping through hoops (according to what you have said) ?; factoring in nationwide ?

(i am not psychic and was given wrong advise by a owner of a post office)

(we don't get to use a "machine" where i am etc > they do it whilst shouting at you)

"for crying out louuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud"