Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

quoia

HomingPigeon said:

Do all your postings have to be mobile verified in order to stay on the panel?

My nearest postbox is only 2 minutes away (by car).  Ideally I would like to be able to record my outgoing test items using my home wifi (rather than using my Pay As You Go mobile phone while at the postbox) but am I right in thinking Spectos will not allow this?

Because it's SO expensive?

I have UNLIMITED CALLS and UNLIMITED TEXTS for under 17p per day
My DATA costs me 1p for every 10Mb THAT I ACTUALLY  USE (£1 per gigabyte) - usually an entire month is under £2 and I use it quite a lot for surfing and emails. 
Using the Mailagents app at a post box uses a few KILOBYTES
1p gives me TEN THOUSAND kilobytes

m1kjm said:

HomingPigeon said:

Thank you HJ.

Does anyone know what the prize in the monthly draw is?

For me, winning their prize draw it's not worth the risk of having my phone snatched at a postbox.

So you have a mobile phone and never use it outside ?

I use a smart phone that cost me £49 in Asda about 10 years ago

m1kjm

Well I've got an iphone and no, I'm not prepared to risk having it snatched while I'm focusing on that app at a postbox all for the sake of trying to win their prize draw.

HomingPigeon

For me, it's not the fact that it only costs a few pence per posting - it's all the other stuff my phone starts downloading once I switch the mobile data on.

I know I can switch a lot of this off but I'm not knowledgeable enough to feel comfortable about doing that.

I wouldn't consider having my mobile phone on a contract, however small the cost is. I just don't use it enough.

silvercar

m1kjm said:

Well I've got an iphone and no, I'm not prepared to risk having it snatched while I'm focusing on that app at a postbox all for the sake of trying to win their prize draw.

Wow! I could probably leave my iPhone at the post box and it would still be there a few hours later, and someone would have seen it and posted on various local WhatsApp groups that someone had left their phone at X post box! 

elsien

I quite often have my phone in my hand when I’m out and about it anyway. Maybe it depends where you live but it’s not something I worry about as a rule

HomingPigeon

I guess I'm lucky that I don't have to actually stand at a postbox to record postings.

I can sit in my car on the carpark of a local shopping park which offers free wifi, there's a postbox on the pedestrian area which I use and then go back to the car to record.

I shop at Morrisons regularly, there's a postbox in the foyer, I can use their free wifi to record my posting while shopping.

There's also a large pub/eatery fairly close by that has free wifi, I eat there regularly, it's a few doors down from a Post Office with a postbox outside. I can post there and record the details while waiting for my food to arrive.

Dizzycap

NBLondon said:

The app is currently telling me I have a bundle to post next week and that's it....  Since September is my 6th month; I'm guessing that means I'm resting at the end of the month.  Wonder how long I might have to wait for the Presentation Pack?

I've been active since the beginning of March and was expecting to finish at the end of September too, but the App updated today with another load of test items to arrive and send during October which I'm very happy about as I go past the post box everyday, so why not get points along the way and another voucher before Christmas!   

Dizzycap

HomingPigeon said:

Thank you HJ.

Does anyone know what the prize in the monthly draw is?

I too wonder what the prizes are. I've never won any of the 3 prizes, but would be interested to know what they are   

quoia

Dizzycap said:

HomingPigeon said:

Thank you HJ.

Does anyone know what the prize in the monthly draw is?

I too wonder what the prizes are. I've never won any of the 3 prizes, but would be interested to know what they are   

I raised a ticket regarding this just a day or so ago. As and when I get an answer I'll let you know !

NBLondon

NBLondon said:

quoia said:

Mine arrived just a couple of days after I received the Rest Period email which I was expecting given my posting schedule had ceased to have any future entries 

Cheers!  This morning the app went to (P) telling me I'm now in my rest period.  No email yet but I expect it will all come this week.

I am bemused...   The email came the day after I posted that.  No pack yet.  This weekend, the app was telling me that I've a test letter on the way (presumably expected Sat but no post).

This morning I have an email telling me I'm at the end of my rest period and waiting for a space to come free - the app agrees with (R).  So my rest period has been 6 days not 6 months!  Maybe they are really short of panellists round here.   I'm not going to complain if it means I get 2 packs (one end and one start) and I'm on the panel for the Christmas stamps too.