GE - Postal Vote Forms

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 19 Nov 2019, 08:32

When are the postal vote forms for the General Election due to go out? Will they get sent direct to DOs or will we be running them on iLSMs/IMPS and CSS?

Jefferson Starfish · Post by **Jefferson Starfish** » 19 Nov 2019, 10:33

They normally go through the mail centres. When they get sent out will depend on the local council.

Phunter · Post by **Phunter** » 19 Nov 2019, 11:17

Jefferson Starfish wrote:They normally go through the mail centres. When they get sent out will depend on the local council.

Best practice would be to arrange dispatch by postcode and move it over DOs, that avoid double handling, it would take ages on the CCSs.

Bahia Feliz · Post by **Bahia Feliz** » 19 Nov 2019, 15:59

On or around the 27th Nov i read on a polling card i delivered

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 19 Nov 2019, 17:39

Bahia Feliz wrote:On or around the 27th Nov i read on a polling card i delivered

Yes the instructions regarding postal votes are on the poll cards which everyone who has registered to vote should receive. I have a feeling though that if you have previously chosen to always do postal voting you may just receive the postal vote form & not the poll cards.
Postal vote envelopes usually come in the 'buddy trays' of sequenced or walksorted mail.

Post by **wallop** » 19 Nov 2019, 19:11

Poll cards i was delivering today said they will be sent out this Fri.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 19 Nov 2019, 19:18

Celgar wrote:Postal vote envelopes usually come in the 'buddy trays' of sequenced or walksorted mail.

??? No such thing as "buddy trays" with sequencing. It's 1 walk per tray, same with walksort

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 19 Nov 2019, 19:23

SpacePhoenix wrote:
Celgar wrote:Postal vote envelopes usually come in the 'buddy trays' of sequenced or walksorted mail.
??? No such thing as "buddy trays" with sequencing. It's 1 walk per tray, same with walksort

I just using the name for the trays that some others have used on here. We just call it trays of sequenced mail in our DO.

Tinoblade · Post by **Tinoblade** » 19 Nov 2019, 20:19

My partner works for the company that prints and sends them out. She says they are sending them 25th

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 19 Nov 2019, 21:02

Tinoblade wrote:My partner works for the company that prints and sends them out. She says they are sending them 25th

They might not go out from MCs on the day that they arrive at the MCs. By the end of November the amount of mech mail will have increased and there's a limit to the number of boxes that can be sequenced on a given shift

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 20 Nov 2019, 07:09

It's possible that not all MCs will have started their xmas plan by then, if they haven't then depending on what time they arrive at the MC they might end up being just walk sorted only

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 20 Nov 2019, 07:18

Celgar wrote:
Bahia Feliz wrote:On or around the 27th Nov i read on a polling card i delivered
Yes the instructions regarding postal votes are on the poll cards which everyone who has registered to vote should receive. I have a feeling though that if you have previously chosen to always do postal voting you may just receive the postal vote form & not the poll cards.
Postal vote envelopes usually come in the 'buddy trays' of sequenced or walksorted mail.

Postal voters do get a poll card - its a different colour to the normal one.

Phunter wrote:
Jefferson Starfish wrote:They normally go through the mail centres. When they get sent out will depend on the local council.
Best practice would be to arrange dispatch by postcode and move it over DOs, that avoid double handling, it would take ages on the CCSs.

Bets practice for the CSS operators, but not for the Delivery Posties. Unsequneced mail takes about triple the time a sequenced box does and about double for a walk sorted. If its not passed through a machine in order it will get triple handled in most DOs.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 21 Nov 2019, 06:46

They've started to come through now, which makes me wonder if it'll end up with them all arriving in MCs on Friday night/Saturday morning which would mean for some DOs they'd just be walksorted only

mr hil. · Post by **mr hil.** » 21 Nov 2019, 19:53

We have had ours.......they came in the manual IPS trays. Only a very few were in walk sorted but NOT sequenced trays

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 21 Nov 2019, 19:57

mr hil. wrote:We have had ours.......they came in the manual IPS trays. Only a very few were in walk sorted but NOT sequenced trays

They must have started to be run through an IMP or iLSM just as the batches that cover your DO were being run. Your DO must be one that has wave 2 walk sort only