Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Money_Grabber13579

The price of stamps seems likely to rise again…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61505862

molerat

We recently sent you a short questionnaire about changes to what counts as ‘doorstepped’ for the Correctly Delivered Survey following Royal Mail’s “Safeplace for All” initiative. We’d really appreciate it if you can spare a few minutes to respond. Just click on the pop-up on your dashboard or go to the Available Survey link. 

Thank you!

I did respond at the time !

HomingPigeon

^^^^I did too!

HomingPigeon

^^^Sorry, I should have said.....I got a message asking if I'd spare a few minutes to respond. I'd already responded.

littlemoney

silvercar said:

CGORST said:

Well, I'm really disappointed.  I have done the postal survey for years now and have just started my latest 6 month stint.  I have just received a message saying that unless I record the items I post by using the app, I will be taken off the survey.  Well, I don't have a mobile that can have apps - it just phones and sends texts and it's not that good at either of those but to be honest I never use it and can't really afford to buy a smartphone!  

May be worth looking at whether the cheapest phone you could buy, coupled with a cheap SIM only tariff would be worth paying for, in return for the stamps and occasional payments that the survey brings.

I am guessing this will happen to me when I am invited back. Unless you use lots of the stamps or can easily convert them to cash, neither of which apply to me I will stop doing the survey. The chance of the occasional CD or Unaddressed don't make it worth the cost of getting a smart phone and then paying for the privilege of doing survey work as you have to pay for data used to record posting. I have a PAYG phone so all usage is expensive. I don't make enough calls to justify the cheapest monthly sim of £5 a month which is £60 a year.

seatbeltnoob

littlemoney said:

silvercar said:

CGORST said:

Well, I'm really disappointed.  I have done the postal survey for years now and have just started my latest 6 month stint.  I have just received a message saying that unless I record the items I post by using the app, I will be taken off the survey.  Well, I don't have a mobile that can have apps - it just phones and sends texts and it's not that good at either of those but to be honest I never use it and can't really afford to buy a smartphone!  

May be worth looking at whether the cheapest phone you could buy, coupled with a cheap SIM only tariff would be worth paying for, in return for the stamps and occasional payments that the survey brings.

I am guessing this will happen to me when I am invited back. Unless you use lots of the stamps or can easily convert them to cash, neither of which apply to me I will stop doing the survey. The chance of the occasional CD or Unaddressed don't make it worth the cost of getting a smart phone and then paying for the privilege of doing survey work as you have to pay for data used to record posting. I have a PAYG phone so all usage is expensive. I don't make enough calls to justify the cheapest monthly sim of £5 a month which is £60 a year.

I use stamps for my ecommerce business, and would buy them - to make it worthwhile for both the buyer and sell I would buy in cash in person - so bypass the RM fees, ebay fees etc.

Also buying in person.

I sometimes send out to local panelists and I was wondering would it be cheeky to add a note asking if the recepient wants to sell their stamps. I know it's against terms to include anything else and if the recepient reports me then I could be thrown of the programme. The stamps are worth face value in cash to me. I know others just sell them for about half the face value.

Anyone in East London, dm me if you want to sell your stamps. Can do bank transfer after a few inital sales.

silvercar

seatbeltnoob said:

littlemoney said:

silvercar said:

CGORST said:

Well, I'm really disappointed.  I have done the postal survey for years now and have just started my latest 6 month stint.  I have just received a message saying that unless I record the items I post by using the app, I will be taken off the survey.  Well, I don't have a mobile that can have apps - it just phones and sends texts and it's not that good at either of those but to be honest I never use it and can't really afford to buy a smartphone!  

May be worth looking at whether the cheapest phone you could buy, coupled with a cheap SIM only tariff would be worth paying for, in return for the stamps and occasional payments that the survey brings.

I am guessing this will happen to me when I am invited back. Unless you use lots of the stamps or can easily convert them to cash, neither of which apply to me I will stop doing the survey. The chance of the occasional CD or Unaddressed don't make it worth the cost of getting a smart phone and then paying for the privilege of doing survey work as you have to pay for data used to record posting. I have a PAYG phone so all usage is expensive. I don't make enough calls to justify the cheapest monthly sim of £5 a month which is £60 a year.

I use stamps for my ecommerce business, and would buy them - to make it worthwhile for both the buyer and sell I would buy in cash in person - so bypass the RM fees, ebay fees etc.

Also buying in person.

I sometimes send out to local panelists and I was wondering would it be cheeky to add a note asking if the recepient wants to sell their stamps. I know it's against terms to include anything else and if the recepient reports me then I could be thrown of the programme. The stamps are worth face value in cash to me. I know others just sell them for about half the face value.

Anyone in East London, dm me if you want to sell your stamps. Can do bank transfer after a few inital sales.

Really risky. You only need one jobsworth and your finished.

HomingPigeon

I have been doing the survey for a few years and have loads of surplus to requirements first class stamps.

A local shopkeeper has asked if I'm interested in selling a few to him. He's asked if he is allowed to resell them at £1 each in his shop (would cost the customer 5p more if buying from him rather than getting them from the PO). Apparently he is sometimes asked for stamps and he would like to have a few behind the counter to provide a service to his customers. He's asked me if he is legally allowed to do this.

Does anyone know the answer please? Would he need approval from the RM to sell them for profit (albeit a small profit)?

Am I allowed to sell my stamps to him, knowing that his intention is to sell them on?

He has offered me 75p per stamp (face value 95p). Thoughts please anyone?

Thanks for any replies.

Primrose

Afraid I don,t know the correct legal answer to this.
have you tried Googling the question?  It may direct you to a legal answer somewhere.
Certainly you can sell on  them on as I believe people have previously done so in the past on Eby etc but whether there are restrictions on selling above Royal Mail's original price I don,t know.

elsien

I found this quote from RM on a blog:

“Any retailer who buys their stamps direct from us for resale must, under our T&Cs, sell them at face value or lower. This also applies to retailers who buy from us and sell stamps online.

“However, if a retailer has acquired stamps from somewhere else, we cannot bind them to this condition.

“There isn’t a way of knowing whether someone selling stamps has bought them from us or not, and we don’t provide signage to retailers. However, there are approx. 50k outlets across the UK where customers can buy stamps at the correct price.”

Full link here. 

https://becleverwithyourcash.com/corner-shop-stamp-rip-off/