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Don't you have to pay for it? I did look at it, but I don't post all that many parcels, and it didn't seem worth it. I think it was 4.99 a month, if I posted more than the odd parcel it would be worth it in the time I saved in the post office.
Personally, I would use it, anyway. I use a main town post office, as I work there, and post offices are only open in working hours, so I don't much choice. The queues are so terrible that I have been know to go with a colleauge, and share the queuing - she queues for the first half of our lunch hour, and I for the second! |
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Stacey
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| wellington womble wrote: |
Don't you have to pay for it? I did look at it, but I don't post all that many parcels, and it didn't seem worth it. I think it was 4.99 a month, if I posted more than the odd parcel it would be worth it in the time I saved in the post office.
Personally, I would use it, anyway. I use a main town post office, as I work there, and post offices are only open in working hours, so I don't much choice. The queues are so terrible that I have been know to go with a colleauge, and share the queuing - she queues for the first half of our lunch hour, and I for the second! |
No - you can do the small/medium buisness Smartstamp thing for �4.99 a month but the only extra cost to print your own is that you have to provide a label or something to actually print it onto. If it's a letter you can just print straight onto the envelope.
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dougal
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Really? How can that be valid for compensation? |
No idea dougal. You could try looking at the royal mail site. Do you have a point of view as to whether it's an ethically acceptable alternative to actually queuing up in a post office or are you just looking for a fight? |
I have asked how it is different to buying the stamps and sticking them on yourself.
I have asked how you can print a "Certificate of Postage" for yourself - which as I'm sure folk will know is a receipt certifying that the Post Office have received the item - and worth �32 if the item gets lost.
I haven't had an answer.
Instead I'm asked if I'm "looking for a fight"!
I don't see how this can be an alternative to "queuing up at the post office" for anything that requires a receipt for the item, or for anything that won't fit into a pillar box.
I recognise that there is a cashflow advantage in not having to buy stamps in advance, and potentially from paying on credit card, but, er, that's about it as an advantage for the poster of things that don't go straight into letter boxes.
As I've said, printing your own good-looking labels isn't difficult.
And there's no need for the chap at the counter to stick anything on - if you don't wish him to. You can stick ordinary stamps on yourself!
The loss of revenue to local sub-post offices from this particular innovation would seem to be less than the losses that they have already experienced from changes to benefit payments, post office bank accounts, passport applications and vehicle re-licensing (and there are probably others).
In the current situation, it would be hard to be cheerful about running most rural sub-postoffices these days.
If you don't mind taking your parcels further to hand them in at another post office, then don't support your local one with your trade - and for things other than stamps, too.
Without trade (not just yours), it'll probably close quite soon, and you'll *have* to travel further with your parcels.
Its as simple as that.
Practicality, not ethics. |
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Penny Outskirts
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If we had a local post office, we'd use it without question, but we don't, so we use smartstamp - we do post out quite a few parcels a day, so it's worth it to us.
If it's a choice between Smartstamp, and going into town, finding parking, paying for parking, fighting through the people, queueing at the post office, I'll take the Smartstamp I'm afraid. |
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The one just down the road has limited services and when I went in with a parcel one Monday they told me it wouldn't be picked up for postage until Thursday! The one in the next village has a really surly bloke behind the counter who moans if you ask for a receipt and doesn't stick the labels on properly (I've had to refund postage before as the labels had fallen off 
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I've explained to him that I not only need the receipts for proof of posting but for my accounts, yet every time I have to go through the palaver of asking for a receipt at the end of the transaction and dealing with his huffs and puffs as he has to push the button on the machine and wait for the receipt to pop out. Tearing the receipt out of the machine seems to be the final straw for him 
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