Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

lesleyb

pallyman said:

I have never been refused any parcels when i use stamps but tend to leave the stamps a little under and pay them the difference.

I do that as well. you also get a tracking number that way 

HomingPigeon

I post letters, large letters and parcels, mostly for my eBay sales, and always use stamps - some from the survey and some from an auction-house purchase. They've never been queried.

I once enquired at Royal Mail Customer Services in York as I had a few half-penny stamps which were part of a collector's lot, and very old. I was told that as long as the stamps had the Queen's head on them, they were still usable, even though half-pennies hadn't been in circulation for a long time.

libra10

I'm back on the panel and in several days, have a couple of cubes in the ginormous bag to post.

I take the post to the local village post office, where the assistants are nosy chatty, and wondered, if being asked, the reason for sending parcels this way.  Or do they just take them without asking?

kerri_gt

libra10 said:

I'm back on the panel and in several days, have a couple of cubes in the ginormous bag to post.

I take the post to the local village post office, where the assistants are nosy chatty, and wondered, if being asked, the reason for sending parcels this way.  Or do they just take them without asking?

can you say something like 'ebay sales' or 'moved some of my business online' ?

libra10

kerri_gt said:

libra10 said:

I'm back on the panel and in several days, have a couple of cubes in the ginormous bag to post.

I take the post to the local village post office, where the assistants are nosy chatty, and wondered, if being asked, the reason for sending parcels this way.  Or do they just take them without asking?

can you say something like 'ebay sales' or 'moved some of my business online' ?

@k@kerri_gt Thanks for replying, They know me too well for that, I think I'm going to have to be a little more devious 

Just accepted invitation to do Unaddressed Mail survey.

Baileys_Babe

libra10 said:

kerri_gt said:

libra10 said:

I'm back on the panel and in several days, have a couple of cubes in the ginormous bag to post.

I take the post to the local village post office, where the assistants are nosy chatty, and wondered, if being asked, the reason for sending parcels this way.  Or do they just take them without asking?

can you say something like 'ebay sales' or 'moved some of my business online' ?

@k@kerri_gt Thanks for replying, They know me too well for that, I think I'm going to have to be a little more devious 

Just accepted invitation to do Unaddressed Mail survey.

Could you just say you are doing a favour for a friend or family?

libra10

@Baileys_Babe I could say that I'm posting as a favour, but it depends how many times I will be asked to send them.  I could definitely say that the first time I send.

Thanks for the suggestion.

elsien

That's what I did - walked in with the bag, told them I was dropping them in for a neighbour and I had no idea what I was meant to be doing with them.  It's a good excuse for not knowing what you're meant to be doing with the bits of paper. 

Baileys_Babe

libra10 said:

@Baileys_Babe I could say that I'm posting as a favour, but it depends how many times I will be asked to send them.  I could definitely say that the first time I send.

Thanks for the suggestion.

On subsequent occasions, if questioned/comes up in chat you could always say you are offering a bit of support to friend/family members new small business from time to time.

libra10

Thanks, some great suggestions mentioned.  I'll definitely say that I'm helping a friend if asked.

Do you have any idea how many of these type of postings there are likely to be, ie monthly, or (hopefully) less?