Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Lulibella12

Haribobo19 said:

Hi all, I've been a mail agent now since back last year but this is my first time being a sender. I received a bundle today that needs to be posted next week and I'm just a bit confused.
It says to take the sack with the parcels to a post office with the manifest, what is this? Is it the sales order summary that was in the posting pack? Also it says to please remove the wrap around band before posting, do they mean the cable tie on the mailsack?

Thanks 😊

Ha! Exactly the same here. What is the wrap around band? I assumed the cable tie would need to stay on and secured as if has a label attached. Thought I was just being more dozy than usual! 

HonestJohn

Lulibella12 said:

Haribobo19 said:

Hi all, I've been a mail agent now since back last year but this is my first time being a sender. I received a bundle today that needs to be posted next week and I'm just a bit confused.
It says to take the sack with the parcels to a post office with the manifest, what is this? Is it the sales order summary that was in the posting pack? Also it says to please remove the wrap around band before posting, do they mean the cable tie on the mailsack?

Thanks 😊

Ha! Exactly the same here. What is the wrap around band? I assumed the cable tie would need to stay on and secured as if has a label attached. Thought I was just being more dozy than usual! 

Just take the sack and the manifest to the PO. Don't tamper with it. The wrap around band bit is meant for when you post letters. Spectos lack attention to detail often.
If you have a parcel postbox nearby you can use that. Then you can open the sack and put the parcels straight in minus the sack and manifest. They also say you can put the parcels in a normal post box but you will be lucky to find one big enough. All this was detailed in a recent newsletter.

Haribobo19

HonestJohn said:

Lulibella12 said:

Haribobo19 said:

Hi all, I've been a mail agent now since back last year but this is my first time being a sender. I received a bundle today that needs to be posted next week and I'm just a bit confused.
It says to take the sack with the parcels to a post office with the manifest, what is this? Is it the sales order summary that was in the posting pack? Also it says to please remove the wrap around band before posting, do they mean the cable tie on the mailsack?

Thanks 😊

Ha! Exactly the same here. What is the wrap around band? I assumed the cable tie would need to stay on and secured as if has a label attached. Thought I was just being more dozy than usual! 

Just take the sack and the manifest to the PO. Don't tamper with it. The wrap around band bit is meant for when you post letters. Spectos lack attention to detail often.
If you have a parcel postbox nearby you can use that. Then you can open the sack and put the parcels straight in minus the sack and manifest. They also say you can put the parcels in a normal post box but you will be lucky to find one big enough. All this was detailed in a recent newsletter.

Thanks for clarifying! Which part is the manifest though? Is that the Sales Order Summary? 

lesleyb

Haribobo19 said:

HonestJohn said:

Lulibella12 said:

Haribobo19 said:

Hi all, I've been a mail agent now since back last year but this is my first time being a sender. I received a bundle today that needs to be posted next week and I'm just a bit confused.
It says to take the sack with the parcels to a post office with the manifest, what is this? Is it the sales order summary that was in the posting pack? Also it says to please remove the wrap around band before posting, do they mean the cable tie on the mailsack?

Thanks 😊

Ha! Exactly the same here. What is the wrap around band? I assumed the cable tie would need to stay on and secured as if has a label attached. Thought I was just being more dozy than usual! 

Just take the sack and the manifest to the PO. Don't tamper with it. The wrap around band bit is meant for when you post letters. Spectos lack attention to detail often.
If you have a parcel postbox nearby you can use that. Then you can open the sack and put the parcels straight in minus the sack and manifest. They also say you can put the parcels in a normal post box but you will be lucky to find one big enough. All this was detailed in a recent newsletter.

Thanks for clarifying! Which part is the manifest though? Is that the Sales Order Summary? 

Yes, Manifest is the Sales order summery, hand it in with the bag

Lulibella12

Thanks for this!
 “All this was detailed in a recent newsletter.” Have checked but can’t find this!

HonestJohn

Lulibella12 said:

Thanks for this!
 “All this was detailed in a recent newsletter.” Have checked but can’t find this!

I am assuming all recent panellists are getting the Mailagents newsletters.
Look out for their Royal Mail Newsletter 2023 CW-23 dated 06/06/23.

NBLondon

Lulibella12 said:

Haribobo19 said:

Hi all, I've been a mail agent now since back last year but this is my first time being a sender. I received a bundle today that needs to be posted next week and I'm just a bit confused.
It says to take the sack with the parcels to a post office with the manifest, what is this? Is it the sales order summary that was in the posting pack? Also it says to please remove the wrap around band before posting, do they mean the cable tie on the mailsack?

Thanks 😊

Ha! Exactly the same here. What is the wrap around band? I assumed the cable tie would need to stay on and secured as if has a label attached. Thought I was just being more dozy than usual! 

Are you looking at the back of the Posting Plan?  Take that with you to the PO (keep it in your pocket though) and after handing over the bag, scan the QR code to log the items as posted.   I usually do it standing outside the PO but you could do it later if needed.

How the PO treats the Manifest/ Sales Order Summary may depend on what training the clerk has had.  They may ask you to tuck it into the cable tie - which is hard work.  So take a spare elastic band (from incoming parcels) and then you can use that to attach the paperwork to the bag.

As Honest John says - When you post a bundle of letters - there is a paper band wrapped around them with the same sticker.  Take that off before they go in the postbox and then scan the QR code to log them as posted.

Haribobo19

Thanks all for explaining! I know what I'm doing now 

Gail333

Saetana said:

I am surprised I haven't had my rest period notice yet - I've been doing this since November last year, and I live in a city so panellists should not be a problem.  Doesn't bother me either way, I go past a postbox with late collection, and a post office, every weekday so its not a great hassle for me.

Same as me. I started at the end of last October and I'm still receiving plenty of items. 

I don't want a rest period though as I love the vouchers! So far I have had four and I'm almost there for the fifth. Knowing my luck though they will probably rest me just before I hit it 🤣

tomvox

Nice letter from Spectos this morning with stamps and presentation pack for the end of my first stint. They seem to be on the ball for this anyway. If they could only start answering tickets a bit faster!