Serious for delivering age verification

[Acca Dacca]

How the RM can find out that someone put a fake year but still over "25 years" as his age. No customer complaint made as per the manager. How come royal mail knows the age of the person the parcel being delivered to and manager complaining to the postie that he has put a fake age in this case as 1960 as birth date.

Thanks

Test item perhaps?

a lot of mystery shoppers getting these items and reporting back if proper procedure took place before handing over

[A2B]

How the RM can find out that someone put a fake year but still over "25 years" as his age. No customer complaint made as per the manager. How come royal mail knows the age of the person the parcel being delivered to and manager complaining to the postie that he has put a fake age in this case as 1960 as birth date.

Thanks

Test item perhaps?

Yep, probably a secret shopper

[postmanplod2025]

yeah i dont understand why he wont tell us if he signed for it, faked the signature , we just wanted to know how u got the warning, it comes up pda straight away 18 sign so not sure how u could miss that, seems no advice given what steps was taken to get a serious warning, whole post is evasive and pointless

[postman15]

Probably a mystery shopper.

[Mr Rush]

Idiots for signing for some nail clippers,they are not all knives.

Yeah, the booze is obvious but there's no way that many people are buying knives everyday unless we're willing to entertain the notion that 80% of all purchases of bladed weapons are actually mystery shoppers hired to get delivery personnel fired. It'll turn out knife crime mostly exists on paper.

On which note, we were told RM are now telling recipients in their 'Out for Delivery' messages to have their child answer the door to test us.

[Oscar_Grouch]

Idiots for signing for some nail clippers,they are not all knives.

Yeah, the booze is obvious but there's no way that many people are buying knives everyday unless we're willing to entertain the notion that 80% of all purchases of bladed weapons are actually mystery shoppers hired to get delivery personnel fired. It'll turn out knife crime mostly exists on paper.

On which note, we were told RM are now telling recipients in their 'Out for Delivery' messages to have their child answer the door to test us.

Lots of different types of knives.
I bet very few AV items, but the last three have been (according to the customer at the door), kitchen knives, a putty knife and a whittling knife.

Cooking, DIY and crafts.
While I can't imagine many other reasons for needing a 'knife' the definition of knife that falls within the legislation is much broader than what many might consider

[menditsa]

A cheese grater needs a age verification, I kid you not.

[funkflex55]

A cheese grater needs a age verification, I kid you not.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton ... -1.3152731

Dangerous things those cheese graters.

[funkflex55]

They can still buy age restricted items if mum or dad signs for it so it's all a bit pointless anyway.

It's not our problem if their parents are idiots.

Idiots for signing for some nail clippers,they are not all knives.

If a kid wants to get hold of a knife then they could just go in the kitchen and get one. It's not likely that what normally is done in a moment of rage should instead involve a kid going on Amazon and buying a knife then waiting for delivery.and then going and stabbing someone. Unless they a psychopath, in which case there's other things they could use, a cheese grater for example.

[GRS]

How the RM can find out that someone put a fake year but still over "25 years" as his age. No customer complaint made as per the manager. How come royal mail knows the age of the person the parcel being delivered to and manager complaining to the postie that he has put a fake age in this case as 1960 as birth date.

Thanks

Test item perhaps?

a lot of mystery shoppers getting these items and reporting back if proper procedure took place before handing over

……..this myth that there’s all these mystery shoppers lined up by RM to catch posties out! Where the F**K did this come from? Again it’s just a line that people love to repeat without actually thinking about it.
You seriously believe that there’s 1,000’s upon 1,000’s of people in on some conspiracy to catch posties out

[A2B]

They are not working for RM they are employed by random companies to test if they get the service they pay for from various different retailers and couriers

Friends wife did it for a while a few years back when it was mainly going into shops and checking product placement and customer service, since online shopping has taken over it's changed

Mystery Shopping Made Easy - Proinsight https://share.google/VRtXyj5alUyNufW3K

[Smoothbackground]

……..this myth that there’s all these mystery shoppers lined up by RM to catch posties out! Where the F**K did this come from? Again it’s just a line that people love to repeat without actually thinking about it.
You seriously believe that there’s 1,000’s upon 1,000’s of people in on some conspiracy to catch posties out

Let’s give a massive round of applause for our resident fount of all knowledge, our very own Mr I Know It All Sherlock.

[Hitcher]

I imagine companies sending AV items like nail clippers are just erring on the side of caution so they don't get into trouble.

[Acca Dacca]

How the RM can find out that someone put a fake year but still over "25 years" as his age. No customer complaint made as per the manager. How come royal mail knows the age of the person the parcel being delivered to and manager complaining to the postie that he has put a fake age in this case as 1960 as birth date.

Thanks

Test item perhaps?

a lot of mystery shoppers getting these items and reporting back if proper procedure took place before handing over

……..this myth that there’s all these mystery shoppers lined up by RM to catch posties out! Where the F**K did this come from? Again it’s just a line that people love to repeat without actually thinking about it.
You seriously believe that there’s 1,000’s upon 1,000’s of people in on some conspiracy to catch posties out

I believe it yeah

The reason for the age verification is serious enough that some way of ensuring that procedure is correctly being followed makes more sense than nonsense to me


If they do it with test letters and they used to do it with door to doors then it’s not outside the realms of possibility they do it with these items that if not done correctly could lead to lawsuits given the reason behind the verification

They might not do it at all but I 100% don’t think anyone believing they do is being silly - I think it’s silly to assume they don’t do it tbh

[Jonathan Alsatian]

I recently delivered some plastic toddlers cutlery for a two year olds birthday party. Had to do age verification. On the mother not the two year old obviously although he did inform me that it was his for his birthday. Must be just the word knife appearing in the description