Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

silvercar

elsien said:

silvercar said:

bristolleedsfan said:

silvercar said:

bristolleedsfan said:

gt94sss2 said:

mr662 said:

If enough people email them to complain re. The new 200 points per visit to drop the new style parcels then maybe they might change their mind? (Wouldn't hold my breathe but worth a try ifpeople email them, only take 2min to msg via app)

IMHO if they wanted to change something out should have remove the prestamped parcels and made them all APLs instead - I find it much more awkward going to a PO to hand over something that has already been stamped - the sub post office staff certainly don't like it!

Now they are ditching APL makes no difference me saying this, instead of buying APL during the course of three posting stints i  used stamps I had been sent for being on panel, nothing was ever said and I received full incentives, whilst post offices dont like pre-stamped items reality is stamps are sold elsewhere for purpose of people sending items.

Surely that is against the rules? I would be worried about not being reimbursed for not following instructions properly.

Reimbursement was made in advance, was only a case would the extra for posting the item(s) be made. ( did) I had been expecting something to be said ( never did) this spanned years over different posting panel stints

Almost wish you had shared this knowledge earlier.

I once had a warning for writing the date to post on the back of an envelope. Considering this is quite a reasonable thing to do, especially if like me you have birthday cards ready for posting, I was surprised and disappointed. 

I think the problem with this is that if this then identifies other panellists, they are removed from the panel. So it can be an issue for the person you are sending things to if you write the details on the envelope.

Obviously I’ve stopped after the warning, but I don’t see how it identifies anyone as a panel member. If I write 7/1 on the back of a birthday card to remind me to post on the 7th, does that mean the recipient is on the panel or more likely that it is a birthday card?

Primrose

With letters I write the posting date and required am or pm posting time on the inside of the envelope flap which obviously disappears  soon as letter is sealed. 

General_Grant

silvercar said:

Gmbexpeart2020 said:

The purpose is to monitor the Royal Mail postal service. The role involves preparing letters and parcels for the survey and posting them usually with a chip called ...

Called......RFID.

APL is automatic price label.

Automated Postage Label

Baileys_Babe

Primrose said:

With letters I write the posting date and required am or pm posting time on the inside of the envelope flap which obviously disappears  soon as letter is sealed. 

I also write the date on the inside of the flap as a reminder without it exposing other panellists.

beanielou

I use mini postage notes.

General_Grant

beanielou said:

I use mini postage notes.

I think it has been reported much earlier in this thread that people have received envelopes with post-it attached!  

beanielou

General_Grant said:

beanielou said:

I use mini postage notes.

I think it has been reported much earlier in this thread that people have received envelopes with post-it attached!  

Hope they were not mine!

elsien

silvercar said:

elsien said:

silvercar said:

bristolleedsfan said:

silvercar said:

bristolleedsfan said:

gt94sss2 said:

mr662 said:

If enough people email them to complain re. The new 200 points per visit to drop the new style parcels then maybe they might change their mind? (Wouldn't hold my breathe but worth a try ifpeople email them, only take 2min to msg via app)

IMHO if they wanted to change something out should have remove the prestamped parcels and made them all APLs instead - I find it much more awkward going to a PO to hand over something that has already been stamped - the sub post office staff certainly don't like it!

Now they are ditching APL makes no difference me saying this, instead of buying APL during the course of three posting stints i  used stamps I had been sent for being on panel, nothing was ever said and I received full incentives, whilst post offices dont like pre-stamped items reality is stamps are sold elsewhere for purpose of people sending items.

Surely that is against the rules? I would be worried about not being reimbursed for not following instructions properly.

Reimbursement was made in advance, was only a case would the extra for posting the item(s) be made. ( did) I had been expecting something to be said ( never did) this spanned years over different posting panel stints

Almost wish you had shared this knowledge earlier.

I once had a warning for writing the date to post on the back of an envelope. Considering this is quite a reasonable thing to do, especially if like me you have birthday cards ready for posting, I was surprised and disappointed. 

I think the problem with this is that if this then identifies other panellists, they are removed from the panel. So it can be an issue for the person you are sending things to if you write the details on the envelope.

Obviously I’ve stopped after the warning, but I don’t see how it identifies anyone as a panel member. If I write 7/1 on the back of a birthday card to remind me to post on the 7th, does that mean the recipient is on the panel or more likely that it is a birthday card?

Admittedly I did get the idiot who had written the posting date, R number and smart code in biro on the back of the envelope. But there have been panellists who have been contacted by RM to say they are being removed from the panel because they have been identified without saying how, so writing things on the envelope could be a part of that and best to play safe.
My personal opinion is that it's bleeding obvious to anyone with half a brain that we're on the panel, given that you can feel the smarts, the posting pack and cubes are obvious and our volume of mail changes dramatically every 6 months, but there you go. 

bristolleedsfan

elsien said:

silvercar said:

elsien said:

silvercar said:

bristolleedsfan said:

silvercar said:

bristolleedsfan said:

gt94sss2 said:

mr662 said:

If enough people email them to complain re. The new 200 points per visit to drop the new style parcels then maybe they might change their mind? (Wouldn't hold my breathe but worth a try ifpeople email them, only take 2min to msg via app)

IMHO if they wanted to change something out should have remove the prestamped parcels and made them all APLs instead - I find it much more awkward going to a PO to hand over something that has already been stamped - the sub post office staff certainly don't like it!

Now they are ditching APL makes no difference me saying this, instead of buying APL during the course of three posting stints i  used stamps I had been sent for being on panel, nothing was ever said and I received full incentives, whilst post offices dont like pre-stamped items reality is stamps are sold elsewhere for purpose of people sending items.

Surely that is against the rules? I would be worried about not being reimbursed for not following instructions properly.

Reimbursement was made in advance, was only a case would the extra for posting the item(s) be made. ( did) I had been expecting something to be said ( never did) this spanned years over different posting panel stints

Almost wish you had shared this knowledge earlier.

I once had a warning for writing the date to post on the back of an envelope. Considering this is quite a reasonable thing to do, especially if like me you have birthday cards ready for posting, I was surprised and disappointed. 

I think the problem with this is that if this then identifies other panellists, they are removed from the panel. So it can be an issue for the person you are sending things to if you write the details on the envelope.

Obviously I’ve stopped after the warning, but I don’t see how it identifies anyone as a panel member. If I write 7/1 on the back of a birthday card to remind me to post on the 7th, does that mean the recipient is on the panel or more likely that it is a birthday card?

My personal opinion is that it's bleeding obvious to anyone with half a brain that we're on the panel, given that you can feel that smarts, the posting pack and cubes are obvious and our volume of mail changes dramatically every 6 months, but there you go. 

Sorting offices and Postman will all know return address on mailouts which never changes belongs to Kantar, previous address regular Postman started crossing through unfranked stamps when I became a Panelist which he never did prior .....

silvercar

If postman has rumbled that I’m on the panel he hasn’t taken much heed. People with the same house number in the next road are forever getting some of my post. Last week they had an envelope containing an RFID.