The Ever Increasing ammount of Un-Franked Mail!

Post by **Aquarius** » 17 Dec 2015, 17:51

The amount of unfranked mail at my MC has shot up in the last year.

Some try to cancel all they can - many don't bother ie it's someone else's problem !

Sometimes you don't have time because of tie-down/despatch.

Post by **teesdale** » 19 Dec 2015, 14:12

Not enough people to handstamp. Where once two people handstamped there will now be one. One person may now have to cancel the stamps that three people used to do sometimes. At Bristol MC handstamping usually ends at 8pm to 8.30pm so everything from then on up to 10pm is uncanceled. Some people don't bother to cancel any stamp from 6pm to avoid too much of a backlog on their table. Started years ago when scales were removed to stop people wasting time. Didn't talk to us about it, just took them away.

Garshin · Post by **Garshin** » 22 Dec 2015, 18:59

Portsmouth [as was, now shut for primary

].We had lots of diverts from BH/DT/SO/CH [bizzarrely], many unfranked but a / in marker pen through stamp. Were told to ignore & sort it.

By way, anyone from Huddersfield? What do the people not sorting RTSs do of a day?

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 23 Dec 2015, 15:41

Garshin wrote:Portsmouth [as was, now shut for primary ].We had lots of diverts from BH/DT/SO/CH [bizzarrely], many unfranked but a / in marker pen through stamp. Were told to ignore & sort it.

By way, anyone from Huddersfield? What do the people not sorting RTSs do of a day?

Stacking them to send to the originator

Post by **redheadedwoman** » 05 Jan 2016, 15:45

We do not have the resources to do this along with the fact that management don't seem to bother if the work is cancelled or not as long as it gets out the door.

Ripley14 · Post by **Ripley14** » 18 Mar 2016, 15:54

Horrendous problem ! And RM doing nothing about it , our shift manager on lates at Chelmsford MC tells us to stop cancelling at 8pm sometimes. The new red cancelling tools have been taken off us !
Millions of unfranked stamps for sale on eBay

Dorset Plodder · Post by **Dorset Plodder** » 19 Mar 2016, 07:59

That is truly shocking!

I get a bit Anal about unfranked stamps and can truly say, "No Unfranked stamps knowingly delivered"! I won't deliver for FREE

The latest twist to the story is is that if you can identify re-used stamps (i.e Stamp with obviously different coloured backing to the envelope) we return it to the locker and the PHG fills in a Revenue Protection Card (You've got £1.60 to pay) and puts it back in the IPS.

I can imagine a few irate phone calls between receiver and sender! But Royal Mail really need to sort this E Bay problen. Surely the IB could pursue these people for Fraud?

Ripley14 · Post by **Ripley14** » 19 Mar 2016, 10:17

Dorset Plodder wrote:That is truly shocking! I get a bit Anal about unfranked stamps and can truly say, "No Unfranked stamps knowingly delivered"! I won't deliver for FREE

The latest twist to the story is is that if you can identify re-used stamps (i.e Stamp with obviously different coloured backing to the envelope) we return it to the locker and the PHG fills in a Revenue Protection Card (You've got £1.60 to pay) and puts it back in the IPS.

I can imagine a few irate phone calls between receiver and sender! But Royal Mail really need to sort this E Bay problen. Surely the IB could pursue these people for Fraud?

Our rev pro don't even charge them sometimes ! There was a court case few yrs back where RM took a company to court for reusing stamps and RM lost ! As we have the felicity to cancel them and didn't ... Shocking !!

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