Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

HomingPigeon

Many thanks for replies and link.

I've just typed a long, detailed reply, and lost it all, so here's a condensed version.

On Googling I found various responses - some saying Yes, you can, and some saying No, you can't, so I rang the Royal Mail Customer Services.

They didn't know the answer - said they'd never been asked this question before. Redirected me to the Business Services helpline, who also didn't know and said they'd never been asked this question before. A third telephone call produced a definite NO, you're not allowed to charge anything other than the face value (or lower, I presume).

NBLondon

HomingPigeon said:

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

I don't think that's your problem.  If you took your Presentation Packs and then sold them to a stamp dealer - they may well have every intention to sell them on at over face value at some point.  RM can't stop you doing that.

elsien's answer makes sense - if a retailer buys direct from RM in order to sell in their corner shop then they can't mark up.   But if they are more savvy, they could just buy a Business Sheet of 100 from e.g. Viking Direct.   Stamp dealers and collectors buy direct from RM; do they have the same conditions on their account?  Plenty of people buy new issues, wait a week and then whack them on eBay at inflated prices.

If you're offloading your red 1st class and you're happy to take 75p for them then go for it.  Or swap them out for plum barcoded 1st class and see if he'll give you 80p for those.

LADY_A

Sent my swap out stamps seven days ago . Received nothing back yet though.
Do they return using Special signed for delivery.
Hoping so as mine are well over the £200 value.

molerat

LADY_A said:

Sent my swap out stamps seven days ago . Received nothing back yet though.
Do they return using Special signed for delivery.
Hoping so as mine are well over the £200 value.

They are sent 1st class signed for.  That said my pack was just poked through the letter box, still showing as not yet delivered.

beanielou

Our local papershop sells for more than face value.

NBLondon

beanielou said:

Our local papershop sells for more than face value.

I saw a shop in Central London selling at over face - two doors up from a post office    Either there was a significant demand in the evenings or people were prepared to pay a premium to avoid the queue.    Mind you, this shop sold a lot of postcards so maybe tourists were buying stamps with cards and not knowing they were being charged over face ?

LADY_A

LADY_A said:

Sent my swap out stamps seven days ago . Received nothing back yet though.
Do they return using Special signed for delivery.
Hoping so as mine are well over the £200 value.

Received this morning , Special delivery.
Everything spot on including covering the cost of postage with second class stamps.

molerat

LADY_A said:

LADY_A said:

Sent my swap out stamps seven days ago . Received nothing back yet though.
Do they return using Special signed for delivery.
Hoping so as mine are well over the £200 value.

Received this morning , Special delivery.
Everything spot on including covering the cost of postage with second class stamps.

Must be too many getting lost and finally got their act together.

Saetana

Just had my invitation backto the main panel to start in July - I almost turned it down as I am concerned about how many parcels they will expect me to post but have accepted and will see how it goes.  Think this is my 8th year on the panel now...

quoia

Saetana said:

Just had my invitation backto the main panel to start in July - I almost turned it down as I am concerned about how many parcels they will expect me to post but have accepted and will see how it goes.  Think this is my 8th year on the panel now...

I'm approaching the end of my current 6 months - 6th or 7th time I've done it
1st item received 31/12/21
1st item to post 4/1/22

So far I've had to go to a Post Office 6 times
That's 5 times with a manifest and a sack containing 2 cubes
Once with a single cube with actual stamps on