Free Delivery Confirmation on every Royal Mail Standard parcel from Summer 2016

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 12 May 2016, 13:58

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Royal Mail have confirmed that from this summer they’ll be offering free delivery confirmation on all parcels sent by their standard 24 and 48 hour parcel services. By putting 2D barcoded labels on your parcels you’ll be able to enjoy free Delivery Confirmation when tracking goes live in the Summer.

This is fantastic news for all online retailers who need tracking – that’s pretty much anyone that sells on eBay or Amazon as well as other marketplaces. Once the tracking goes live every parcel you ship with Royal Mail will have delivery confirmation and be eligible of eBay’s on time delivery metric and depending on value automatically qualify for PayPal seller protection.

There are plenty of ways to produce Royal Mail 2D barcode labels, online with tools like Royal Mail’s Despatch Manager Online, through the many multichannel management tools that have integrated Royal Mail services, with (free) bespoke integrations from NetDespatch and of course at your local Post Office with Click and Drop.

Royal Mail have already prepared 8,000 Post Offices for 2D barcodes and rolled out some 70,000 state of the art PDAs across their network. They are currently still testing to make sure that everything works perfectly for the summer launch of free tracking.

There are a ton of other enhancements such as free SMS or email notifications for parcel recipients and an increased compensation level for lost or damaged parcels which is raised to £100.

If you’re not already using Royal Mail 2D barcodes then it’s time to get ready. You can either contact Royal Mail through their website, speak to your third party software integrator or give the guys at NetDespatch a call and they’ll be more than happy to assist you.

oypostie · Post by **oypostie** » 12 May 2016, 15:48

Which summer was that

ted_e_bear · Post by **ted_e_bear** » 12 May 2016, 16:01

Take it you can actually scan these with the new pda's then ? My success rate with old PDA is about 1 in every 100 attempts !

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 12 May 2016, 16:03

ted_e_bear wrote:Take it you can actually scan these with the new pda's then ? My success rate with old PDA is about 1 in every 100 attempts !

mine is the exact opposite. Mind you I have noticed that the old scanners struggle with 2d barcodes in bright sunlight, not something we experience a lot of in the Pennines.

rjack · Post by **rjack** » 12 May 2016, 16:14

Does this mean that business who send tracked items just for delivery confirmation will use the cheaper option of 2d barcode.

edwardo · Post by **edwardo** » 12 May 2016, 19:12

Where will we get the time ⏱⏱

ted_e_bear · Post by **ted_e_bear** » 14 May 2016, 09:19

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
ted_e_bear wrote:Take it you can actually scan these with the new pda's then ? My success rate with old PDA is about 1 in every 100 attempts !
mine is the exact opposite. Mind you I have noticed that the old scanners struggle with 2d barcodes in bright sunlight, not something we experience a lot of in the Pennines.

Update to my original point, I've used a new PDA now and yes they scan 2d barcodes first time, every time !

Post by **rambo1** » 14 May 2016, 20:07

Ahh but will the battery last! If we are gonna give compensation for failed scans we need the home printed ones to be better and new pda's.

Spedley · Post by **Spedley** » 15 May 2016, 00:34

The new PDA's seem up to it but I still haven't got the habit of doing it yet.

We were delivering small packages today which were advertising this new service. I can't see where RM are going to profit from this, all I can see is expense! Perhaps 'free' doesn't mean 'free'.

Post by **Lounge Lizard** » 15 May 2016, 08:46

And this includes the 2D barcodes on Horizon labels ?