Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

HonestJohn

TomandBarbara said:
I think this is my worry! I got one of my own parcels stuck in one of them before so I am worried I might do it again!

Going to measure the boxes at lunch time and if too big will tweak the parcel.  Was going to send them at lunchtime at the post office as suddenly realised I did need to go out but then dawned on me that I'm in the wrong postcode.  

I regularly send parcels with 4 books in back to Spectos using these boxess with no issues. Your parcels will only be 2 books. I would not start interfering with the individual parcels.

silvercar

HonestJohn said:

TomandBarbara said:
I think this is my worry! I got one of my own parcels stuck in one of them before so I am worried I might do it again!

Going to measure the boxes at lunch time and if too big will tweak the parcel.  Was going to send them at lunchtime at the post office as suddenly realised I did need to go out but then dawned on me that I'm in the wrong postcode.  

I regularly send parcels with 4 books in back to Spectos using these boxess with no issues. Your parcels will only be 2 books. I would not start interfering with the individual parcels.

I think it is wrong to interfere with the parcels. One of the questions to receivers of parcels is always how were they received. They see, keen to know whether they were left on the doorstep or handed over by the driver. If we make parcel small enough to fit in a post box they are likely to be small enough to fit through a house letter box and so the question becomes redundant.

HonestJohn

silvercar said:

HonestJohn said:

TomandBarbara said:
I think this is my worry! I got one of my own parcels stuck in one of them before so I am worried I might do it again!

Going to measure the boxes at lunch time and if too big will tweak the parcel.  Was going to send them at lunchtime at the post office as suddenly realised I did need to go out but then dawned on me that I'm in the wrong postcode.  

I regularly send parcels with 4 books in back to Spectos using these boxess with no issues. Your parcels will only be 2 books. I would not start interfering with the individual parcels.

I think it is wrong to interfere with the parcels. One of the questions to receivers of parcels is always how were they received. They see, keen to know whether they were left on the doorstep or handed over by the driver. If we make parcel small enough to fit in a post box they are likely to be small enough to fit through a house letter box and so the question becomes redundant.

Post boxes are smaller than parcel boxes though

Antbingley

I too always use parcel boxes instead of going to the post office. 

Only once so far did I have to "abort mission" and use the post office instead (luckily I still had the bag and manifest etc).

The parcels that time were definitely larger than the normal "cube" and were designed to fall into the medium parcel category.   Normally all the parcels fall into the small parcel category, don't they? 

I tried then in the parcel box but wouldn't fit - too tall 

TomandBarbara

Antbingley said:

I too always use parcel boxes instead of going to the post office. 

Only once so far did I have to "abort mission" and use the post office instead (luckily I still had the bag and manifest etc).

The parcels that time were definitely larger than the normal "cube" and were designed to fall into the medium parcel category.   Normally all the parcels fall into the small parcel category, don't they? 

I tried then in the parcel box but wouldn't fit - too tall 

Yes I have just measured this one and it is 18cm height so assuming won't fit.  Don't think I want to risk getting it stuck but then I'm also not too keen on having to go post office on a busy Saturday morning as that's the only time I can go in my postcode area   

TomandBarbara

silvercar said:

HonestJohn said:

TomandBarbara said:
I think this is my worry! I got one of my own parcels stuck in one of them before so I am worried I might do it again!

Going to measure the boxes at lunch time and if too big will tweak the parcel.  Was going to send them at lunchtime at the post office as suddenly realised I did need to go out but then dawned on me that I'm in the wrong postcode.  

I regularly send parcels with 4 books in back to Spectos using these boxess with no issues. Your parcels will only be 2 books. I would not start interfering with the individual parcels.

I think it is wrong to interfere with the parcels. One of the questions to receivers of parcels is always how were they received. They see, keen to know whether they were left on the doorstep or handed over by the driver. If we make parcel small enough to fit in a post box they are likely to be small enough to fit through a house letter box and so the question becomes redundant.

Totally agree 👍

Money_Grabber13579

TomandBarbara said:

Antbingley said:

I too always use parcel boxes instead of going to the post office. 

Only once so far did I have to "abort mission" and use the post office instead (luckily I still had the bag and manifest etc).

The parcels that time were definitely larger than the normal "cube" and were designed to fall into the medium parcel category.   Normally all the parcels fall into the small parcel category, don't they? 

I tried then in the parcel box but wouldn't fit - too tall 

Yes I have just measured this one and it is 18cm height so assuming won't fit.  Don't think I want to risk getting it stuck but then I'm also not too keen on having to go post office on a busy Saturday morning as that's the only time I can go in my postcode area   

I’ve also just received 18cm cubes to post. I’m going to give it a go in the parcel box anyway… maybe I’ll accidentally sit on the parcels before going to the parcel post box.

HonestJohn

Money_Grabber13579 said:

TomandBarbara said:

Antbingley said:

I too always use parcel boxes instead of going to the post office. 

Only once so far did I have to "abort mission" and use the post office instead (luckily I still had the bag and manifest etc).

The parcels that time were definitely larger than the normal "cube" and were designed to fall into the medium parcel category.   Normally all the parcels fall into the small parcel category, don't they? 

I tried then in the parcel box but wouldn't fit - too tall 

Yes I have just measured this one and it is 18cm height so assuming won't fit.  Don't think I want to risk getting it stuck but then I'm also not too keen on having to go post office on a busy Saturday morning as that's the only time I can go in my postcode area   

I’ve also just received 18cm cubes to post. I’m going to give it a go in the parcel box anyway… maybe I’ll accidentally sit on the parcels before going to the parcel post box.

Never had a cube with Spectos although they seemed to be standard issue with Kantar

quoia

TomandBarbara said:

Antbingley said:

I too always use parcel boxes instead of going to the post office. 

Only once so far did I have to "abort mission" and use the post office instead (luckily I still had the bag and manifest etc).

The parcels that time were definitely larger than the normal "cube" and were designed to fall into the medium parcel category.   Normally all the parcels fall into the small parcel category, don't they? 

I tried then in the parcel box but wouldn't fit - too tall 

Yes I have just measured this one and it is 18cm height so assuming won't fit.  Don't think I want to risk getting it stuck but then I'm also not too keen on having to go post office on a busy Saturday morning as that's the only time I can go in my postcode area   

I don't know what the problem is ?
Since the days of Kantar and the introduction of the sack and the manifesto it has never been  SO EASY
I've never had to queue at the counter like before they were introduced
That's THE WHOLE POINT
The longest ever it has taken to leave a sack was about 90 seconds
Generally it is less than half a minute

The best I have achieved was 14 seconds from locking the car and entering the PO to climbing back in the car and sitting behind the steering wheel

fluffig

quoia said:

TomandBarbara said:

Antbingley said:

I too always use parcel boxes instead of going to the post office. 

Only once so far did I have to "abort mission" and use the post office instead (luckily I still had the bag and manifest etc).

The parcels that time were definitely larger than the normal "cube" and were designed to fall into the medium parcel category.   Normally all the parcels fall into the small parcel category, don't they? 

I tried then in the parcel box but wouldn't fit - too tall 

Yes I have just measured this one and it is 18cm height so assuming won't fit.  Don't think I want to risk getting it stuck but then I'm also not too keen on having to go post office on a busy Saturday morning as that's the only time I can go in my postcode area   

I don't know what the problem is ?
Since the days of Kantar and the introduction of the sack and the manifesto it has never been  SO EASY
I've never had to queue at the counter like before they were introduced
That's THE WHOLE POINT
The longest ever it has taken to leave a sack was about 90 seconds
Generally it is less than half a minute

The best I have achieved was 14 seconds from locking the car and entering the PO to climbing back in the car and sitting behind the steering wheel

There is always a queue for the post office counter here …