Large letter deliver confirmation

soolin

I know some others have had it for a while due to the rolling implementation- but I finally received my confirmation that I will now get delivery confirmation on large letters through my business click and drop account. I don't actually get a lot of INRs , but I do welcome this development.

This is the note I got on my business account:



We are happy to announce that we now offer Delivery Confirmation for large letters on all standard domestic non-tracked services.
If you have selected the option to mark your orders as despatched in channel when you despatch or manifest your orders, this number will be passed to the marketplace.
To view your Delivery Confirmation numbers from your Click & Drop Orders page, use the column filter icon and select ‘Tracking number’.
You will be able to view when your package has been delivered in our Track and Trace system.
https://www.royalmail.com/track-your-item
!
Kind regards
Click & Drop Support

charlies_mum

I got the message too so that's about 80% of my post covered :T

soolin

charlies_mum wrote: »

I got the message too so that's about 80% of my post covered :T

About 70% of mine as well, slightly less at the moment as I have a fast selling item that goes small parcel which is already tracked. Good news though

martindow

Is this going to extend to large letters sent from a PO?

Pun

Only applies if you use Click and Drop.

ballisticbrian

Maybe it's time then to move over from franking. Does anyone have any advice on where to go and what type of account to ask for? I guess an online business account but I need the one that doesn't attract VAT.


While it was the same price as franking it made no odds, but now it does under this news.

soolin

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Maybe it's time then to move over from franking. Does anyone have any advice on where to go and what type of account to ask for? I guess an online business account but I need the one that doesn't attract VAT.


While it was the same price as franking it made no odds, but now it does under this news.

I know exactly what you want- but I have no idea how to explain what you need to ask for

I use a standard business account via click and drop, all my prices are free of VAT so from memory I'm paying 67p for a 2nd class large letter. I just print out my labels on my wonderful Zebra printer, bag the packages up and drop them at a mail centre. Apparently Post offices should take the bags, but my local Crown one is very difficult and won't do anything that causes them work. I do occasionally use a small Independent PO, but my sales are quite good at the moment and my bags are a bit too bulky for them.

My account just says it is an OBA via click and drop, which is not exactly helpful, sorry.

charlies_mum

Soolin, could you please confirm what codes your mail goes by. When I loaded orders onto my OBA, I used STL or CRL codes. I have noticed that my codes are BPL so wonder if these are the codes for VAT registered users ?

soolin

charlies_mum wrote: »

Soolin, could you please confirm what codes your mail goes by. When I loaded orders onto my OBA, I used STL or CRL codes. I have noticed that my codes are BPL so wonder if these are the codes for VAT registered users ?

My codes for standard mail are BPL and BPR for signed for .

According to this

https://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal-Mail-Business-Price-Guide-2017_0.pdf

BPL is VAT free, it shows 66p for 2nd class LL. I can't seem to see BPR codes on that list though but when I have a moment I can log into my account and check my invoices to see what I have been paying.

charlies_mum

Thanks for that. I was worried I was on the VAT registered codes and the way EBay is going, I will never be VAT registered :rotfl:

ballisticbrian

If it's signed for, do you stick a signed for label on but it goes in the sack with the others? (whereas I have to get mine processed at the PO counter?) Also how does the online manager work?