Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Flat_Eric

molerat said:

Flat_Eric said:

Hello all and hope you are all having a nice saturday.  If you have done the correctly delivered survey, can I ask - is this test post that you get (Because there's a lot of reference to parcels and delivered/left outside) in the information or is simply the case that the survey is based on personal post you receive?  Thanks.

It is for your personal mail but excludes some items

(Please include the count of only correctly delivered mail, do not include any Tracked, Special Delivery or RM 24/48 items or Royal Mail survey items.)

Thank you ! big smiley face

silvercar

Flat_Eric said:

Hello all and hope you are all having a nice saturday.  If you have done the correctly delivered survey, can I ask - is this test post that you get (Because there's a lot of reference to parcels and delivered/left outside) in the information or is simply the case that the survey is based on personal post you receive?  Thanks.

Correctly delivered is the easiest fiver going. 500 points just to count the amount of Mail you receive each day. I timed it once, takes in total around 3 minutes, so pay rate is £100/ hr

redagila

I've just received the following message from Kantar

"It looks like you have declined or not responded to 5

consecutive invitations to take part in the Royal Mail Survey. We have therefore removed you from the posting panel.

This is an automatic process which doesn’t take into account reasons why you may have been unavailable. So if you would still like to take part in our postal surveys please get in touch.

If you have any outstanding rewards points, you can still redeem them from your account for 60 days.

We’d like to thank you for being part of our postal panel."

I have not received any messages from them about re-joining & this is the first time anything like this has happened in the many years I have been doing the survey.

In the past I have always received an email.  Does anyone know if they have altered their method?  I have been doing UM surveys each month for the last year & am currently on one now but they obviously don't have a joined up system, which is not surprising.

General_Grant

redagila said:

I've just received the following message from Kantar

"It looks like you have declined or not responded to 5

consecutive invitations to take part in the Royal Mail Survey. We have therefore removed you from the posting panel.

This is an automatic process which doesn’t take into account reasons why you may have been unavailable. So if you would still like to take part in our postal surveys please get in touch.

If you have any outstanding rewards points, you can still redeem them from your account for 60 days.

We’d like to thank you for being part of our postal panel."

I have not received any messages from them about re-joining & this is the first time anything like this has happened in the many years I have been doing the survey.

In the past I have always received an email.  Does anyone know if they have altered their method?  I have been doing UM surveys each month for the last year & am currently on one now but they obviously don't have a joined up system, which is not surprising.

I'm currently "resting" from the main survey but expect to get an invitation within a couple of months.  So I don't think they would have been trying to contact me yet.  But it's interesting to see what you have received.

Are you going to contact them to let them know you are willing to undertake the main survey again?

Ms_Chocaholic

Sorry if it's already been asked - what is the value of stamps in the presentation packs and what denominations, also is the value the same in them all? Thank you.

molerat

Ms_Chocaholic said:

Sorry if it's already been asked - what is the value of stamps in the presentation packs and what denominations, also is the value the same in them all? Thank you.

The presentation packs are whatever is on offer at the time.  The value and denominations vary. https://shop.royalmail.com/collectibles-and-gifts/presentation-packs-and-sets  The last set was Paul McCartney so valued at £16.20 https://shop.royalmail.com/collectibles-and-gifts/presentation-packs-and-sets/paul-mccartney-presentation-pack

redagila

General_Grant said:

redagila said:

I've just received the following message from Kantar

"It looks like you have declined or not responded to 5

consecutive invitations to take part in the Royal Mail Survey. We have therefore removed you from the posting panel.

This is an automatic process which doesn’t take into account reasons why you may have been unavailable. So if you would still like to take part in our postal surveys please get in touch.

If you have any outstanding rewards points, you can still redeem them from your account for 60 days.

We’d like to thank you for being part of our postal panel."

I have not received any messages from them about re-joining & this is the first time anything like this has happened in the many years I have been doing the survey.

In the past I have always received an email.  Does anyone know if they have altered their method?  I have been doing UM surveys each month for the last year & am currently on one now but they obviously don't have a joined up system, which is not surprising.

I'm currently "resting" from the main survey but expect to get an invitation within a couple of months.  So I don't think they would have been trying to contact me yet.  But it's interesting to see what you have received.

Are you going to contact them to let them know you are willing to undertake the main survey again?

Yes I did although with some misgivings seeing all the latest problems with cubes/parcels. Will have to wait & see how long they take to reply.  I actually finished last stint in Dec. 2020 & had been thinking of contacting them to see why I hadn't received a new invite but was happy just to do the UM surveys every month - so much easier than the full survey.

DisablednProud

NBLondon said:

{Deep Breath}

I'm back on the panel.  I was uncertain about it after hearing all the grief here about apps and sacks and whatever but I got an e-mail invite and decided to give them another try.

I'm working from home; so no big issue with parcels arriving, the PO is a short walk away so I can nip out at lunchtime or end of day.  Should be easier than when I was onboard previously.

I'm told to expect my first posting pack (2 training items) next week so lets see what happens.

Sacks are a right pain in the bum, I used to be on this panel years ago, and I can tell you the work literally involved posting out a few envelopes a week, and that was it.

It's slowly become more and more work whilst the 'pay' has remained quite stagnant really. By next year they will be expecting us to start to deliver people's mail too, at this rate.

paul2louise

I have just been accepted. Just had a welcome email. Any advice or tips so that I don't make a bodge up. 

elsien

DisablednProud said:

NBLondon said:

{Deep Breath}

I'm back on the panel.  I was uncertain about it after hearing all the grief here about apps and sacks and whatever but I got an e-mail invite and decided to give them another try.

I'm working from home; so no big issue with parcels arriving, the PO is a short walk away so I can nip out at lunchtime or end of day.  Should be easier than when I was onboard previously.

I'm told to expect my first posting pack (2 training items) next week so lets see what happens.

Sacks are a right pain in the bum, I used to be on this panel years ago, and I can tell you the work literally involved posting out a few envelopes a week, and that was it.

It's slowly become more and more work whilst the 'pay' has remained quite stagnant really. By next year they will be expecting us to start to deliver people's mail too, at this rate.

The sacks are easier than queuing up to buy an APL. Just hand them over and that’s it. Not even had to make up an excuse about what’s in them either, which is a bonus.