Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

molerat

They must hate me then when, at Christmas, I go in with a dozen small parcels all pre stamped - 3 x 1st LL or 1 x 1st LL + 3 x 1st stamps is just over the up to 2KG small parcel price and often actually gets processed through the system as 1st class

lesliejack

quick question........
do we no longer get the sets of commemorative stamps?

custardy

molerat wrote: »

They must hate me then when, at Christmas, I go in with a dozen small parcels all pre stamped - 3 x 1st LL or 1 x 1st LL + 3 x 1st stamps is just over the up to 2KG small parcel price and often actually gets processed through the system as 1st class

How do you work that one out? :rotfl:

Ms_Chocaholic

lesliejack wrote: »

quick question........
do we no longer get the sets of commemorative stamps?

Yes one at the start of the live period and one at the end.

MABLE

lesliejack wrote: »

quick question........
do we no longer get the sets of commemorative stamps?

Just started again and got the usual stamps and the Dads Army presentation pack.

molerat

custardy wrote: »

How do you work that one out? :rotfl:

Because they arrive next day in the south of England from N Scotland. How does the system process what postage is on an item when it is made up of random stamps ?

custardy

molerat wrote: »

Because they arrive next day in the south of England from N Scotland. How does the system process what postage is on an item when it is made up of random stamps ?

Well how does it work out to slow down second class items?

NBLondon

molerat wrote: »

How does the system process what postage is on an item when it is made up of random stamps ?

The stamps have phosphor/fluorescent printing on them - so sorting machinery can tell a 1st from a 2nd. So if you are using smaller value 1st class to make up a 2nd class the equipment may be reading it as 1st and sorting appropriately. May vary depending on what model of equipment a particular sorting office has; how busy it is and various other factors though.

custardy

NBLondon wrote: »

The stamps have phosphor/fluorescent printing on them - so sorting machinery can tell a 1st from a 2nd. So if you are using smaller value 1st class to make up a 2nd class the equipment may be reading it as 1st and sorting appropriately. May vary depending on what model of equipment a particular sorting office has; how busy it is and various other factors though.

Put simply. The only 'delay' with 2nd class is network capacity.
So if a vehicle is maxed out. 1st class is prioritised.
In final leg mail centre sorting,if sorting capacity is strained then first class takes priority.
once it hits deliveries 1st/2nd class is moot and it is all due delivery.
So a 2nd class item getting next day delivery,doesnt mean it beat the system.
Even more so at xmas where they are additional parcel sort centres and mail can leapfrog other mail due to the way the mail moves.

aninymoose

quoia wrote: »

A couple of suggestions ....

HTH

Thank you for taking the time to reply and I must admit I hadn’t seen the 3 lines. Clicking on this does collapse the menu but unfortunately not enough to read the post script.

Thanks again