Kantar - Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

elsien · 12 January 2018 at 12:27PM

mustbemad wrote: »

Looks like I’m back on the survey after being bumped off in November before I even went live but looks like I’m back on training again 😕 does anyone know if it will be the full training period again or will it be shorter this time?

MBM xd

Last couple of times it's been shorter, just a couple of weeks.
Plus the obligatory email half way through training saying they're oversubscribed and taking you off the panel, followed closely by the next posting pack.

quoia · 12 January 2018 at 1:33PM

Quentin wrote: »

Can't you fold and tape the envelopes so that they fit the size for normal postage and can be recycled?

Better still cut them in half and make 2 "new" envelopes that fit the standard "non-large" template

dobbiesloan · 12 January 2018 at 6:50PM

NBLondon wrote: »

Anti-Scottish bigotry :whistle:

probably:):):):)

seatbeltnoob · 13 January 2018 at 4:45PM

I completed my first 6 month stretch a while ago, and they automatically tried to enrol me onto another session.

I withdrew before they could send the stuff out to me. I think this is fine for retired people, but it's a real drag for someone like me who works from home and has to leave the house to post stuff on specific times. There were some weeks where I had up to 5 stuff to post all having their own special time/packing requirements.

They need to pay people at least £20-£30 for their time to do this. It is quite involved. Paying people in lousy stamps is just not enough.

Also a lot of mess get created. I had so much paperwork, plastic bags accumulated. You really needed to be well organised to clear up all the mess.

Last but no least their website is not intuitive not is it easy to work with. I find the posting/receiving entries were really repeptitive and annoying. The website seems to have been built in the early 2000's and is repetitive to use.

Lastly. I joined initially for altruism. I felt the royal mail were slow in my area and I wanted to take part in the survey so I couold give royal mail some hard feedback. The bulk of the letters were from peer to peer. But there were a lot of letters where you send things off to corporations and corporations sending things to you. It made me wonder what these were for?

The cynic in me says these were provided to the corporations so they can get a gauge of deliver-ability of their bulk mail and perhaps use data to sue/get refund from royal mail.

In any case, I did not join to help out corporations without being properly renumerated/ .

Minimods · 13 January 2018 at 10:23PM

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

I completed my first 6 month stretch a while ago, and they automatically tried to enrol me onto another session.

I withdrew before they could send the stuff out to me. I think this is fine for retired people, but it's a real drag for someone like me who works from home and has to leave the house to post stuff on specific times. There were some weeks where I had up to 5 stuff to post all having their own special time/packing requirements.

They need to pay people at least £20-£30 for their time to do this. It is quite involved. Paying people in lousy stamps is just not enough.

Also a lot of mess get created. I had so much paperwork, plastic bags accumulated. You really needed to be well organised to clear up all the mess.

Last but no least their website is not intuitive not is it easy to work with. I find the posting/receiving entries were really repeptitive and annoying. The website seems to have been built in the early 2000's and is repetitive to use.

Lastly. I joined initially for altruism. I felt the royal mail were slow in my area and I wanted to take part in the survey so I couold give royal mail some hard feedback. The bulk of the letters were from peer to peer. But there were a lot of letters where you send things off to corporations and corporations sending things to you. It made me wonder what these were for?

The cynic in me says these were provided to the corporations so they can get a gauge of deliver-ability of their bulk mail and perhaps use data to sue/get refund from royal mail.

In any case, I did not join to help out corporations without being properly renumerated/ .

Yes, it can be a pain. The worst thing for me are the parcels, having to pay out of my own pocket to post them and in return getting L2S vouchers which I find hard to spend (cashiers seem surprised to see £1 vouchers and it is such a faff when I want to get out of the shop!). In this day and age a prepaid debit card would not be too hard surely. The website definitely needs an upgrade but I find it usable. I won't be continuing when invited after I finish this stint (4th or 5th round).

elsien · 13 January 2018 at 10:43PM

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

I withdrew before they could send the stuff out to me. I think this is fine for retired people, but it's a real drag for someone like me who works from home and has to leave the house to post stuff on specific times. There were some weeks where I had up to 5 stuff to post all having their own special time/packing requirements.

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I don't find it that bad. Post office and post boxes are both easy walking distance. Posting before 9 I do when I'm walking the dog, if I'm working from home I go out a lunchtime and do the morning ones just before 12 and the afternoon ones just after, or I shove things in the post box on the way home.

littlemoney · 14 January 2018 at 2:15PM

I was wondering that when you have something to post on Monday before noon, has anyone posted it on the Sunday before and then logged it as posted early Monday. As there are no Sunday collections I wondered if this was a viable option if posting anytime on Monday would be difficult.

Mchambers · 14 January 2018 at 3:14PM

You won't have any probs. I have done this loads of times.

Chocmonster7 · 14 January 2018 at 3:19PM

Whilst the shedule say they want them posted morning/afternoon I've never stuck to those, just made sure they were posted on the right day or the same day the following week. They've never complained to me and with the last posting time on my local box now being 9am it's pointless worrying about it.

molerat · 14 January 2018 at 3:44PM

littlemoney wrote: »

I was wondering that when you have something to post on Monday before noon, has anyone posted it on the Sunday before and then logged it as posted early Monday. As there are no Sunday collections I wondered if this was a viable option if posting anytime on Monday would be difficult.

I have posted Saturday afternoon with no problems

Chocmonster7 wrote: »

Whilst the shedule say they want them posted morning/afternoon I've never stuck to those, just made sure they were posted on the right day or the same day the following week. They've never complained to me and with the last posting time on my local box now being 9am it's pointless worrying about it.

Last week I had one before mid day and one after mid day on the same day. Well, that didn't happen. I do try to post as per but that is taking the pee.

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