Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

HomingPigeon

Great ideas there, kerri.    :0)

akh43

General_Grant said:

akh43 said:

I am still in the training phase after a very long break, its been a month now, when should I start to receive stamps or do you not get them with you are training?

They don't send the stamps during training.  Think this is to prevent people signing up just to get the "free" stamps but not then participating in actually doing the tasks.

How long should the training take, I can't find anything to specify this or does it depend on the panellist?  It already been 5 weeks and next week's pack is still training post.

redagila

akh43 said:

General_Grant said:

akh43 said:

I am still in the training phase after a very long break, its been a month now, when should I start to receive stamps or do you not get them with you are training?

They don't send the stamps during training.  Think this is to prevent people signing up just to get the "free" stamps but not then participating in actually doing the tasks.

How long should the training take, I can't find anything to specify this or does it depend on the panellist?  It already been 5 weeks and next week's pack is still training post.

Don't think there is a set no. of weeks & don't be surprised if at the end of training they stand you down for a while if they don't have a space for you. The longer you do this panel the more you question their ability to run a business!

General_Grant

akh43 said:

General_Grant said:

akh43 said:

I am still in the training phase after a very long break, its been a month now, when should I start to receive stamps or do you not get them with you are training?

They don't send the stamps during training.  Think this is to prevent people signing up just to get the "free" stamps but not then participating in actually doing the tasks.

How long should the training take, I can't find anything to specify this or does it depend on the panellist?  It already been 5 weeks and next week's pack is still training post.

As redagila said, there doesn't seem to be a set time.  I think you mentioned not having done the  survey for quite some time and it has changed over the last couple of years so they may think you should experience it for longer. 

I have recently come to the end of my latest time on the panel so must have begun posting "live" items about six months ago.  That time I didn't do any posting to West Brom before re-starting whereas I've had varying amounts of time "training" in the past.

Abbafan1972

Well I am posting this afternoon what I think is my last bit of post, as I've had my Paul McCartney presentation pack and no more posting packs have arrived. 

I have to post back 3 RFID's but still have 1 in my stock and I am using my last envelope.  Might have to message them if/when they ask for that one back.

redagila

Abbafan1972 said:

Well I am posting this afternoon what I think is my last bit of post, as I've had my Paul McCartney presentation pack and no more posting packs have arrived. 

I have to post back 3 RFID's but still have 1 in my stock and I am using my last envelope.  Might have to message them if/when they ask for that one back.

Why not send back the extra one with the others as they will want it back sometime?

darkl

Just had my first mailings after a 6 month rest period. 6 big packets containg 2 mailbags  and  5 cubes meaning 3 trips into town to mail them.

Is this usual now? Not sure it is worth being on the panel now if it is.

General_Grant

I think I had at most 5 mail bags to post (and possibly 1 single cube on its own) during my recently ended stint.  So that looks like one a month on average.  With luck there will now be a long gap before you next need to go to a PO for the survey.

lovesilver71

darkl said:

Just had my first mailings after a 6 month rest period. 6 big packets containg 2 mailbags  and  5 cubes meaning 3 trips into town to mail them.

Is this usual now? Not sure it is worth being on the panel now if it is.

My first week I had a mail bag to post am and cube pm, they paid me for one cube. I have told them this is my last stint and I’d rather no cubes. I have a mail bag to post this week, that’s fine. I stuck to their timetable and understand I don’t have to. I think they have annoyed so many people with these cubes, that hardly anyone does them that means more cubes for everyone else. Why they don’t go back to paying per cube And  everyone is happy I do not know. I’ve been paid per cube on previous stints before the mail bag, I’m happy to get one payment per mail bag but when I have a separate cube I want separate payment. They struggle to get anyone on the panel where I live.

darkl

I will contact them on Monday to ask to come off the panel and arrange return of all I have received. Based on the rewards and time involved to prepare and mail the items received it is not worth it. I can fully understand why others are not happy with this new system they are using for cubes.