I get a daily PPI collection and the local posties regularly drop off a sack of mail sacks for me to use; the vast majority are "normal" grey mail sacks but recently I've started getting a fair few red and green sacks and am getting conflicting info from the collection guys over whether I can use coloured sacks for normal tracked/un-tracked PPI.
Does anyone know what the significance of the red and the green sacks are and whether I can safely use them for normal (i.e. not Special or International) 24/48 PPI stuff?
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adb2aber
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Re: Different coloured mail sacks
Reds should be for letter box collection, green for Special Delivery only. If you get blues too they're International.MyronAub wrote:I get a daily PPI collection and the local posties regularly drop off a sack of mail sacks for me to use; the vast majority are "normal" grey mail sacks but recently I've started getting a fair few red and green sacks and am getting conflicting info from the collection guys over whether I can use coloured sacks for normal tracked/un-tracked PPI.
Does anyone know what the significance of the red and the green sacks are and whether I can safely use them for normal (i.e. not Special or International) 24/48 PPI stuff?
TBH if they're giving you the bags I'd use them. Not your fault you're being supplied with the wrong colour bags. Do let the collection driver know they aren't specials though, it'll make his life a bit easier.
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MyronAub
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Re: Different coloured mail sacks
Many thanks for clarifying what the colours mean. Although rare we do sometimes send stuff out by Special so I think I'll probably save the green for then rather than risk normal PPI being mis-routed and delayed.adb2aber wrote:Reds should be for letter box collection, green for Special Delivery only. If you get blues too they're International.
As an aside we had a new postie doing the collection today and I had to show him which options to select on his handheld scanner so he could scan our paperwork!
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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Different coloured mail sacks
"Reds should be for letter box collection, green for Special Delivery only. If you get blues too they're International" and there's all sorts of colours, sizes and designs from foreign postal administrations too. 
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baldrick
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Re: Different coloured mail sacks
If your local Delivery Office or Mail Centre is running low on stocks of mail bags they will use any colour bags. At my old MC the only bags that were used for specific streams were the red bags for stamped collections as they were usually tipped straight onto the conveyors for the facing/cancelling machines.
Doesn't matter that much for the others as they should have labels on, indicating the type of mail, and the tippers will check the contents.
Doesn't matter that much for the others as they should have labels on, indicating the type of mail, and the tippers will check the contents.