Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Money_Grabber13579 · 23 May 2019 at 12:45PM

Whereas, they want me to return everything, in which case I would run out! So I haven’t bothered returning them yet.

redagila · 24 May 2019 at 7:03PM

Been out all day, just come Home & a survey invite when I logged in. Might be worth checking your accounts.

purkles · 25 May 2019 at 11:10PM

elsien wrote: »

Breaking them up and using them in the bottom of large plant pots to improve drainage and save on compost.

Putting them as filler in any parcels I send where the box is a bit big fir what's inside.

Out of interest, why is posting on a Saturday any more days difficult than posting any other day of the week? I'm not seeing a problem.

My post office is only open until 12pm on a Saturday. I have other weekend commitments.

Primrose · 26 May 2019 at 12:19PM

I don't know how many people participate in the main surveys at any one time but it does seem to me that with more and more sub post offices in danger of closing it,s going to become increasingly difficult to find enough participants who will be able to access them easily to post the cubes.

It,s one thing being able to post a Jiffy bag into a post box but cubes can,t be handled in this way and if Royal Mail keep closing rural or suburban post offices participants will no longer be able to fulfil the demands of the survey through no fault of their own. This applies especially those who work and therefore have their movement times restricted.

custardy · 26 May 2019 at 12:21PM

Primrose wrote: »

I don't know how many people participate in the main surveys at any one time but it does seem to me that with more and more sub post offices in danger of closing it,s going to become increasingly difficult to find enough participants who will be able to access them easily to post the cubes.

It,s one thing being able to post a Jiffy bag into a post box but cubes can,t be handled in this way and if Royal Mail keep closing rural or auburn post offices participants will no longer be able to fulfil the demands of the survey through no fault of their own, especially those who work and therefore have their movement times restricted.

Sigh.
Remember when RM was privitised in 2013 and the Post Office is state owned?
How do you see a private RM closing state owned Post Offices?

quoia · 27 May 2019 at 12:15AM

Primrose wrote: »

I don't know how many people participate in the main surveys at any one time but it does seem to me that with more and more sub post offices in danger of closing it,s going to become increasingly difficult to find enough participants who will be able to access them easily to post the cubes.

It,s one thing being able to post a Jiffy bag into a post box but cubes can,t be handled in this way and if Royal Mail keep closing rural or suburban post offices participants will no longer be able to fulfil the demands of the survey through no fault of their own. This applies especially those who work and therefore have their movement times restricted.

Only a matter of time ....

Posting parcels looks set to get easier from August as Royal Mail announces the launch of new parcel postboxes across the UK.

After a successful trial in 2018, Royal Mail will open 1,400 parcel postboxes over a six-month period, starting from August.

The postboxes will open in more than 30 towns and cities including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield as well as Chester, Warrington, Southampton, Norwich, Peterborough and Truro.

The change will enable individuals and small businesses to post parcels in the same way as they would post a letter.

Postage needs to be paid for in advance using Royal Mail’s online service. It will also be possible for consumers to post some bar-coded returns parcels without queuing up in a post office.

Mark Street, head of campaigns at Royal Mail, says: “The wide scale introduction of parcel postboxes is one of the many ways we at Royal Mail are looking to make the lives of our customers easier.

"The parcel postboxes trial last year was a success, and we hope that the wider roll-out gives added flexibility to online sellers who might be running a business in their spare time and not keeping regular office hours.”

The introduction of the parcel postboxes is the first major change to the UK’s postbox system in 160 years.

The first postboxes opened in Jersey in 1852 and were rolled out across the UK the following year by Anthony Trollope, novelist and senior GPO executive.

Here's the full list of where parcel boxes will be introduced:

*Aberdeen

* Belfast

* Birmingham

* Bournemouth

* Bristol

* Cardiff

* Carlisle

* Chelmsford

* Chester

* Croydon

* Edinburgh

* Exeter

* Glasgow

* Greenford

* Inverness

* Leeds

* London Central

* Manchester

* Newcastle

* Norwich

* Peterborough

* Poole

* Preston

* Plymouth

* Romford

* Sheffield

* Southamption

* Swansea

* Swindon

* Truro

* Warrington

TheOhGodOfHangovers · 27 May 2019 at 9:48AM

Bit of a delayed response to joeyjimbles, but I also reuse the polystyrene inside cubes. Hopefully it helps to stop them squishing quite so easily and makes it seem like there is actually something inside (maybe) :undecided

Venezia · 27 May 2019 at 9:58AM

LalalaLindy wrote: »

Bit of a delayed response to joeyjimbles, but I also reuse the polystyrene inside cubes. Hopefully it helps to stop them squishing quite so easily and makes it seem like there is actually something inside (maybe) :undecided

I usually say that it is a polystyrene model inside the parcel when asked.

joeyjimbles · 27 May 2019 at 1:41PM

Last week I received no post from the survey at all - not one piece - I got my posting pack for a couple of weeks time, but nothing else. Very odd.

Money_Grabber13579 · 27 May 2019 at 1:59PM

Same here, I didn’t get anything either. But I must be coming to the end of my stint (must have been on it about 5 months now) and I got floods of mail at the start, before it tailed off.

So I suspect that must be intentional, because if receiving something means that someone else has to send something (with the odd exception where it is sent centrally), that must mean that if some people are receiving more than they are sending, there must be others receiving less than they are sending. Which happened to be us last week, who received nothing.

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