Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

babs_103

Just checked the site and they are now saying the message was 'most likely' sent in error.

custardy

lauretta wrote: »

Well I got the message too (after a long hard day at work) and I have replied telling them to jog on.

It was getting ridiculous! Having to log on and do computerised admin for them, EVERY day...collecting mail, recording mail, preparing parcels and jiffy bags and CD boxes, getting rid of all the bl**dy PAPERWORK they inundate you with. Being asked to make two car trips a day, on some days, AM and PM, was the cherry on the cake!

Now I'm getting snotty messages!. And all for receiving some pathetic stamps, which I don't begin to know how to use except at Christmas. (don't get me started on the gift pack stamps!)
The Love to Shop vouchers were a pain, too...I was fed up of sales staff examining them like they had come from Mars, it felt humiliating.

I have put all of their paperwork and SMARTS is in an envelope and it's being shipped STRAIGHT back to them, tomorrow morning.

sheer Bl**dy exploitation.

So what was your plan for the stamps when you joined?

molerat

If you've received a message about posting multiple items on a single day, please ignore it as it was most likely sent in error. Sorry for any inconvenience.

molerat wrote: »

I get the feeling someone has pressed a wrong button, fits in with their usual level of incompetence

Looks like I was right

rpstdavids

Just received a 'Fee to Pay' card through the post, and the way the address is written on it, it looks like it may be a survey item.


Anybody else received one of these before, and if so, did you report it and claim the money back? I know its only £1.50, it's just the principal.


Obviously I'm not yet 100% sure its from the survey, but I'm not expecting anything else.

Saetana

rpstdavids wrote: »

Just received a 'Fee to Pay' card through the post, and the way the address is written on it, it looks like it may be a survey item.

Anybody else received one of these before, and if so, did you report it and claim the money back? I know its only £1.50, it's just the principal.

Obviously I'm not yet 100% sure its from the survey, but I'm not expecting anything else.

I believe they will send you some stamps to cover the postage if you pay for it and let them know - although I wouldn't be keen personally on having to pay cash and getting stamps in return

custardy

Saetana wrote: »

I believe they will send you some stamps to cover the postage if you pay for it and let them know - although I wouldn't be keen personally on having to pay cash and getting stamps in return

You can pay the fees by applying stamps to the card.

lauretta

custardy wrote: »

So what was your plan for the stamps when you joined?

When I joined, I had no idea of the sheer amount of work involved. My point is, a couple of books of stamps is woefully inadequate recompense for all that the Posting Panel workers are expected to do.

I didn't expect to be given daily tasks, for months on end! Or be ordered to do morning postings, or assemble parcels, or be ordered to take them to Post Offices, and have to pay for them myself, and get stupid vouchers in return. And be lectured on varying the mail boxes and Post Offices that I used! I'm not particularly near any post boxes, or Post Offices: each visit required a car journey, which required petrol. And when you can't choose when the trip is, and are told to take it morning, or afternoon, it's impossible to synchronise visiting a post box/Post Office with commuting to and from work.

I also didn't expect to be awash with posted items from other Panel workers, either - and be filling up my recycling bins with reams of paper and cardboard and jiffy bags and envelopes, from all the fictitious 'contents'. I began to dread hearing the postman.

It just isn't worth it. I work hard enough, without working for free. The snotty message was the last straw.

elsien

If I had to get in a car to post things I wouldn't have signed up in the first place. They've never hidden what the incentives are and what's involved.

And I'm completely baffled by your comment about being humiliated by the L2S vouchers. Most shops accept vouchers of one sort or another, it's a perfectly normal way to pay. I like the correctly delivered and unaddressed mail surveys - money for old rope.

redagila

Just been accepted on UMS this morning - email sent at 0.5am but still showing when I logged on.

NBLondon

lauretta wrote: »

When I joined, I had no idea of the sheer amount of work involved. {snip} I'm not particularly near any post boxes, or Post Offices: each visit required a car journey, which required petrol.

From other comments on here - it can be awkward for people in rural areas where there are fewer collections or the PO is not within walking distance. But if you have to actually drive to a post box then did you not work this out during the training period? And as custardy said above - why sign up if you weren't going to use the stamps? And yes please, do get started on the Presentation Pack stamps

elsien wrote: »

And I'm completely baffled by your comment about being humiliated by the L2S vouchers. Most shops accept vouchers of one sort or another, it's a perfectly normal way to pay.

I've used them to pay for dinners in Cafe Rouge, Pizza Express and Patisserie Valerie with no question. House of Fraser took them happily. I guess you might get the odd sales assistant who isn't familiar with them and calls a supervisor but when the shop's logo is printed on the voucher...