Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Saetana

kerri_gt said:

My Transponders to Return count has now disappeared - despite no news ones being received by Spectos and me literally just putting one in the postbox

Same here - I checked as I received an item today with a transponder.  Just shoved it in the post anyway, maybe they have realised that the feature isn't working properly and removed it for now?

kerri_gt

Saetana said:

kerri_gt said:

My Transponders to Return count has now disappeared - despite no news ones being received by Spectos and me literally just putting one in the postbox

Same here - I checked as I received an item today with a transponder.  Just shoved it in the post anyway, maybe they have realised that the feature isn't working properly and removed it for now?

i expect you're right - not going to lose any sleep over it whilst they still in the test phase. If a question isn't there, I can't reply to it.

XDA

I’ve received all of my packages with no transponder inside for about a week but today I received one with a transponder.

Graceglow

I must have hit lucky! All my test letters since January have contained transponders. They have also tallied with the request return feature on the App. 

CRISPIANNE3

In Feb I was sent a test letter with the transponder. I entered the details and as requested returned the transponder. I then received some stamps. I now received another test letter a few days ago and again checked it in and returned the transponder.

Should I expect another lot of stamps this month even though I am not on the main survey at the moment. Also I think I got some points for the test items.

JanefromDorset

Hello! I have been doing the mail survey with Kantar for years and am just awaiting my welcome letter from  Spectos. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to opt out of posting parcels with Spectos? I live in a very small village where the Post Office is part of the community shop, and everyone knows everyone! When Kantar brought in the mailbags for parcels it would have been impossible for me to take them to the village Post Office without being quizzed about what on earth these were and why I was using them. (The next nearest PO is seven miles away so not exactly convenient.) I explained this to Kantar and was able to opt out of posting parcels but have a nasty feeling that Spectos won’t be so accommodating and sadly it will be “bye-bye mail survey” after all these years! 

Just wondered if anyone might be able to throw any light on what I can expect. Thanks!

Graceglow

CRISPIANNE3 said:

In Feb I was sent a test letter with the transponder. I entered the details and as requested returned the transponder. I then received some stamps. I now received another test letter a few days ago and again checked it in and returned the transponder.

Should I expect another lot of stamps this month even though I am not on the main survey at the moment. Also I think I got some points for the test items.

If you received stamps in February & have been receiving test letters etc. I would say you’re highly likely to receive another set of stamps for March.

LADY_A

Had my welcome letter informing me of how to register but the icode keeps coming up as invalid.
Anyone else had this problem ?

kerri_gt

JanefromDorset said:

Hello! I have been doing the mail survey with Kantar for years and am just awaiting my welcome letter from  Spectos. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to opt out of posting parcels with Spectos? I live in a very small village where the Post Office is part of the community shop, and everyone knows everyone! When Kantar brought in the mailbags for parcels it would have been impossible for me to take them to the village Post Office without being quizzed about what on earth these were and why I was using them. (The next nearest PO is seven miles away so not exactly convenient.) I explained this to Kantar and was able to opt out of posting parcels but have a nasty feeling that Spectos won’t be so accommodating and sadly it will be “bye-bye mail survey” after all these years! 

Just wondered if anyone might be able to throw any light on what I can expect. Thanks!

I'm not entirely sure, but wouldn't it be easier to post with Spectos given their parcels / jiffy bags actually have more than air in them? 

JanefromDorset

kerri_gt said:

JanefromDorset said:

Hello! I have been doing the mail survey with Kantar for years and am just awaiting my welcome letter from  Spectos. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to opt out of posting parcels with Spectos? I live in a very small village where the Post Office is part of the community shop, and everyone knows everyone! When Kantar brought in the mailbags for parcels it would have been impossible for me to take them to the village Post Office without being quizzed about what on earth these were and why I was using them. (The next nearest PO is seven miles away so not exactly convenient.) I explained this to Kantar and was able to opt out of posting parcels but have a nasty feeling that Spectos won’t be so accommodating and sadly it will be “bye-bye mail survey” after all these years! 

Just wondered if anyone might be able to throw any light on what I can expect. Thanks!

I'm not entirely sure, but wouldn't it be easier to post with Spectos given their parcels / jiffy bags actually have more than air in them? 

It was the big silver mailbags with manifests etc for parcels that would cause the problem. I’m pretty sure the people in our village post office would never have seen them and would want to know why on earth I was using them - and I can’t think of a suitable response! I’m just presuming Spectos will continue to use the mailbag system - if it was just handing separate parcels over the counter as in the old days, that would be fine (especially as it seems they are more realistic weights now). I will just have to wait and see how things turn out instead of being so impatient! But thanks for your reply.