Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Chocmonster7

Interesting bit from their latest newsletter:

Unless you live bang in the middle of town, the chances are at least one of your local postboxes will have a last collection time of 09:00 weekdays, 07:00 Saturdays. Introduced a few years ago, these are known as Collection on Delivery boxes, the idea being that posties collect the mail as part of their delivery round. Royal Mail says this is a more sustainable way of emptying little-used postboxes which might otherwise end up being taken out of service.

Starting this Spring more postboxes are changing to Collection on Delivery. Not all in one go but as part of a rolling programme. This means that the last collection time for a box you use for posting your test items may change. If so, this will be flagged on the box, and a new faceplate will show the new last collection time. We’ll update this time on your account when the changeover happens.

‘But what if I can’t get to my postbox before 09:00?’

Our advice is very simple. If you can’t post a test item before 09:00, don’t. Post it the same day if possible, and record the actual, exact time of posting; the app will do this for you. If the time when we ask you to post an item clashes with an early last collection time (‘after midday’) stick to this posting time. You can if you wish post an item the night before, but there’s no need, and if you do please record the actual date of posting, not the following day when the item will be collected.

Because every delivery round is different, you may find that if you post after 09:00 your postbox has not yet been emptied: today’s day will still be displayed; the box may be choc-a-bloc! Our advice remains: always record the exact time you post each item. We’ll know from Royal Mail’s own collection data and the RFID reading if your item entered the postal system that day or not.

Baileys_Babe

CRISPIANNE3 said:

I must say Kantar on the ball with my stamps for May. They arrived yesterday. 

My posting pack for the week commencing 19th April arrived today along with May's stamps 😀

millie

Chocmonster7 said:

Interesting bit from their latest newsletter:

Unless you live bang in the middle of town, the chances are at least one of your local postboxes will have a last collection time of 09:00 weekdays, 07:00 Saturdays. Introduced a few years ago, these are known as Collection on Delivery boxes, the idea being that posties collect the mail as part of their delivery round. Royal Mail says this is a more sustainable way of emptying little-used postboxes which might otherwise end up being taken out of service.

Starting this Spring more postboxes are changing to Collection on Delivery. Not all in one go but as part of a rolling programme. This means that the last collection time for a box you use for posting your test items may change. If so, this will be flagged on the box, and a new faceplate will show the new last collection time. We’ll update this time on your account when the changeover happens.

‘But what if I can’t get to my postbox before 09:00?’

Our advice is very simple. If you can’t post a test item before 09:00, don’t. Post it the same day if possible, and record the actual, exact time of posting; the app will do this for you. If the time when we ask you to post an item clashes with an early last collection time (‘after midday’) stick to this posting time. You can if you wish post an item the night before, but there’s no need, and if you do please record the actual date of posting, not the following day when the item will be collected.

Because every delivery round is different, you may find that if you post after 09:00 your postbox has not yet been emptied: today’s day will still be displayed; the box may be choc-a-bloc! Our advice remains: always record the exact time you post each item. We’ll know from Royal Mail’s own collection data and the RFID reading if your item entered the postal system that day or not.

They state that these are little used postboxes in one paragraph and then say that the box maybe choc a bloc.
how can it be little used if it becomes that full because it is emptied early

gt94sss2

Has anyone received a unbranded "white" sack for putting parcels in?
I can't see how to use the zip ties in this - as there are no holes!
It's also unbranded.
The one I had before was coloured grey, had holes for the zip ties and was RM branded.

General_Grant

millie said:

Chocmonster7 said:

Interesting bit from their latest newsletter:

Unless you live bang in the middle of town, the chances are at least one of your local postboxes will have a last collection time of 09:00 weekdays, 07:00 Saturdays. Introduced a few years ago, these are known as Collection on Delivery boxes, the idea being that posties collect the mail as part of their delivery round. Royal Mail says this is a more sustainable way of emptying little-used postboxes which might otherwise end up being taken out of service.

Starting this Spring more postboxes are changing to Collection on Delivery. Not all in one go but as part of a rolling programme. This means that the last collection time for a box you use for posting your test items may change. If so, this will be flagged on the box, and a new faceplate will show the new last collection time. We’ll update this time on your account when the changeover happens.

‘But what if I can’t get to my postbox before 09:00?’

Our advice is very simple. If you can’t post a test item before 09:00, don’t. Post it the same day if possible, and record the actual, exact time of posting; the app will do this for you. If the time when we ask you to post an item clashes with an early last collection time (‘after midday’) stick to this posting time. You can if you wish post an item the night before, but there’s no need, and if you do please record the actual date of posting, not the following day when the item will be collected.

Because every delivery round is different, you may find that if you post after 09:00 your postbox has not yet been emptied: today’s day will still be displayed; the box may be choc-a-bloc! Our advice remains: always record the exact time you post each item. We’ll know from Royal Mail’s own collection data and the RFID reading if your item entered the postal system that day or not.

They state that these are little used postboxes in one paragraph and then say that the box maybe choc a bloc.
how can it be little used if it becomes that full because it is emptied early

If they are postboxes rather than pillar boxes then it doesn't take much to fill them up - particularly at times like the run-up to Christmas.

silvercar

My nearest post box has changed over, it has displayed 9am as the last collection time for quite a while. It features in my road's whatsapp group regularly as being so full that you could take posted mail out of the box by hand if you were minded to. A couple of my neighbours have asked my postman about this. He didn't indicate that he was responsible for collecting, but suggested it may have been forgotten at times.

kerri_gt

silvercar said:

My nearest post box has changed over, it has displayed 9am as the last collection time for quite a while. It features in my road's whatsapp group regularly as being so full that you could take posted mail out of the box by hand if you were minded to. A couple of my neighbours have asked my postman about this. He didn't indicate that he was responsible for collecting, but suggested it may have been forgotten at times.

One Christmas one near me (a large pillar box on a parade of shops,  currently marked as a priority box) was so full with cards as i put mine in, they all fell back out along with multiple others..it was like a scene from the first Harry Potter 🙈 i was so embarrassed picking up the cards and worried someone might think i was trying to steal them.
The box is sited at a parade of shops near a primary and secondary school so not a surprise it was full that day if lots of people were posting on the school run.

Money_Grabber13579

An unusual scenario for me...

Received a cube, which looks to be from Kantar themselves as it has the West Bromwich return address.  However, inside the cube, they have stuck my printed address label rather than the label with the R number on it and so I can’t log it. I’ve had this happen before with mail received from other members but you’d expect Kantar to be able to get it right!

quoia

Money_Grabber13579 said:

An unusual scenario for me...

Received a cube, which looks to be from Kantar themselves as it has the West Bromwich return address.  However, inside the cube, they have stuck my printed address label rather than the label with the R number on it and so I can’t log it. I’ve had this happen before with mail received from other members but you’d expect Kantar to be able to get it right!

I'm guessing that you've yet to SEND a Cube using the new "pre-paid APL" type label that you put in the sack with the Red/Green tag attached and hand over at the post office with the A4 manifest ?

This label DOES HAVE the West Bromwich address printed in quite small text vertically on the right-hand side of the section that contains the destination address.

Does that describe what you have by any chance ?

General_Grant

Money_Grabber13579 said:

An unusual scenario for me...

Received a cube, which looks to be from Kantar themselves as it has the West Bromwich return address.  However, inside the cube, they have stuck my printed address label rather than the label with the R number on it and so I can’t log it. I’ve had this happen before with mail received from other members but you’d expect Kantar to be able to get it right!

The person sending will have received the usual sheet of labels. 

The posting schedule list says that the address is a label (rather than handwritten) and, on the sheet of labels, for your item there will have been the R number label on the righthand side (as normal) and on the left will have been one with your name and address (instead of the instruction about affixing the right-hand label to the A4 piece of paper).   The sender doesn't need a label because the address is on the pre-printed label already on the cube.  It seems your sender is fairly new to the game and used the printed address label instead of the R number one.

You'll need to message TNS to let them know.  I don't know TNS's system for tracking who should get which package but they could probably trace it most easily if you provide the various reference numbers which appear on the printed label.