Kill-off stickers

[SpacePhoenix]

Must be a good few newbies started recently as we're seeing a good few killed-off items missing them.

Apart from letters and flats all killed-off items need a red sticker.

All items being returned abroad need a pink sticker. Not every item going back abroad will be going direct, the ones that goto the big warehouses Heathrow way before entering RM's network, will get sent back to them warehouses and need a red sticker.

[priority102]

In my 22 years of RM and working in 2 DO's I have never seen a pink sticker!

[twoloops]

Me neither, quick tick & bit of scribble, job done.

[Grinder64]

Due to 'budgetary restraint' we are told there are no longer any red or blue crayons available in our office to mark addresses to direct our 'dead' letters to. Hence the return address gets marked with biro and the correct sticker filled in but still we continually see the same items getting returned again and again on the IPS. Yet another classic RM false economy, pathetic...

[Sprattacus]

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[SpacePhoenix]

Due to 'budgetary restraint' we are told there are no longer any red or blue crayons available in our office to mark addresses to direct our 'dead' letters to. Hence the return address gets marked with biro and the correct sticker filled in but still we continually see the same items getting returned again and again on the IPS. Yet another classic RM false economy, pathetic...

For any killed off mech letters if the return address is on the back and there's nothing else on the back that the machine could confuse as an a address then they can go back as mech items, provided that the back of the envelope is facing forward (so the camera sees the return address)

[Dorset Plodder]

We don't suffer from "Sticker Problems", Even the Morons I work with seem to be able to get their heads around them.... we've even got PINK stickers (No Blue Crayons though Grinder)

The problem we get is Redirected Mail coming back through the system, and ending up back where it started! I like to imagine it's the Mail Centre Late Shift, tipping it back into the normal mail (the same guys that put a single letter into a mailbag and put a label & zip tie on it) just to brighten up their shift.

I'm sure SP has an explanation. I don't suffer as much from the problem as I make sure I put a couple of pen marks through the barcodes, which I'm told are used by the machines to sort the mail.

[POSTMAN]

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[SpacePhoenix]

The problem we get is Redirected Mail coming back through the system, and ending up back where it started! I like to imagine it's the Mail Centre Late Shift, tipping it back into the normal mail (the same guys that put a single letter into a mailbag and put a label & zip tie on it) just to brighten up their shift.

Redirected mail goes with whatever was used (SDs if originally an SD, Tracked if originally a Tracked, normals letters/large letters/packets for anything else. Are the problem ones items with a sorting code that's a letter followed by a two digit number?

I'm sure SP has an explanation. I don't suffer as much from the problem as I make sure I put a couple of pen marks through the barcodes, which I'm told are used by the machines to sort the mail.

Yep, the 2 orange barcodes need to be crossed through otherwise the machine will sort them back to the original address

[Dorset Plodder]

Thanks for the reply SP.

I still like to imagine pissed off late shift workers trying to amuse themselves. Bit like the Amazon ones that send little items out in bloody BIG boxes! Anything for a laugh.

[morselll]

same with people who put redirectionletters and large letters into packet bags instead of boxes so it all gets tipped as packets, we see that alot

[Tinoblade]

Yep, the 2 orange barcodes need to be crossed through otherwise the machine will sort them back to the original address

Do both of them need crossing out completely or just a little bit of each?

[SpacePhoenix]

same with people who put redirectionletters and large letters into packet bags instead of boxes so it all gets tipped as packets, we see that alot

You should see the amount of packets and letters (both mech and non-mech) that we get through from MCs that have FSMs

Yep, the 2 orange barcodes need to be crossed through otherwise the machine will sort them back to the original address

Do both of them need crossing out completely or just a little bit of each?

Both barcodes completlyt

[scooby69]

I have seen posties put the red stickers over the return address on parcels, how dumb is that? it will never get returned!

A little tip for everyone when using kill off stickers on parcels, you should place the sticker over the QR barcode of the returning item.
This is to prevent the PSM (parcel sort machine) reading the QR code & sending it back to your delivery office.
Also do the same for redirections and incorrectly addressed items. See examples:

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[goneaway]

A little tip for everyone when using kill off stickers on parcels, you should place the sticker over the QR barcode of the returning item.
This is to prevent the PSM (parcel sort machine) reading the QR code & sending it back to your delivery office.
Also do the same for redirections and incorrectly addressed items.

But then, there will not be the chance to scan the parcel and create an entry on the tracking history to prove that the parcel has been delivered back to the sender (with the GPS co-ordinates), should they deny receipt!