ANNOUNCEMENT : ALL OF ROYAL MAIL'S EMPLOYMENT POLICIES (AGREEMENTS) AT A GLANCE (Updated 2021)... HERE

ANNOUNCEMENT : PLEASE BE AWARE WE ARE NOT ON FACEBOOK AT ALL!

Incorrect weight items

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
sheepy19
Posts: 13
Joined: 29 Aug 2013, 15:06
Gender: Male

Incorrect weight items

Post by sheepy19 »

I regularly get items to deliver with the incorrect weight stated, mostly tracked. For example it will say 737g but weights over 3kg. There's some scales next to me.. Its the ones that are kilograms over that annoy me.
No one knows what to do, I've put red X's and labelled the items overweight but they come back again with no explanation.?

Even if they had paid the correct postage (which i assume they're sending their items cheaply) it shouldn't have the wrong weight stated on it??

Do I have to deliver these or should they be flagged up. Somehow under revenue protection?
SpacePhoenix
MAIL CENTRES/PROCESSING
Posts: 12142
Joined: 12 Nov 2008, 17:03
Gender: Male

Re: Incorrect weight items

Post by SpacePhoenix »

Took some to RP one day, they didn't want to know so now we just sort them
User avatar
POSTMAN
SITE ADMINISTRATOR
Posts: 32757
Joined: 07 Aug 2006, 03:19
Gender: Male

Re: Incorrect weight items

Post by POSTMAN »

Tracked customers have a flatrate contract with RM and all their tracked 48 shipments are charged at the same price regardless of the weight declared on the label - please see below explanation summarising how this service works

• All tracked products are profile priced which means customers pay a set price based on the average weight/size of items they send; this means various sizes/weights will be seen in the network.

• Labels generally show default weights and are not accurate to the profile set up for customers.

The Revenue Protection Team have set-up a new email address RPUK@royalmail.com which is designed to provide any RM employee to raise any revenue concerns they may have or have identified and require additional support to understand the process they need to follow or understand what processes are already in place to cover some of these revenue concerns RM employees identify.

Take a pic of the items and send them to the email.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
Gary55
EX ROYAL MAIL
Posts: 349
Joined: 29 Jun 2021, 21:02
Gender: Male
Location: london

Re: Incorrect weight items

Post by Gary55 »

No longer care if it's overweight or stamps are cancelled. It makes you like that when treated like s**t
sheepy19
Posts: 13
Joined: 29 Aug 2013, 15:06
Gender: Male

Re: Incorrect weight items

Post by sheepy19 »

Cheers. In summary i guess that means just deliver the tracked items whatever it weighs at whatever cost. as its all about big contracts and targets etc.
twoloops
Posts: 2031
Joined: 24 May 2017, 20:52
Gender: Male
Location: Sheffield

Re: Incorrect weight items

Post by twoloops »

Not your problem, turn up & go home, turn up & go home, turn up & go home, strike day, day off, turn up & go home.
TopperGas
Posts: 3463
Joined: 13 Feb 2021, 22:46
Gender: Male

Re: Incorrect weight items

Post by TopperGas »

twoloops wrote:
20 Oct 2022, 13:06
Not your problem, turn up & go home, turn up & go home, turn up & go home, strike day, day off, turn up & go home.
This, as who really cares if RM are losing revenue at the moment l, which they'd only hand out to shareholders anyway.
SpacePhoenix
MAIL CENTRES/PROCESSING
Posts: 12142
Joined: 12 Nov 2008, 17:03
Gender: Male

Re: Incorrect weight items

Post by SpacePhoenix »

With staffing levels in MCs there's no longer the time to cancel stamps
twoloops
Posts: 2031
Joined: 24 May 2017, 20:52
Gender: Male
Location: Sheffield

Re: Incorrect weight items

Post by twoloops »

What sad bastard cancels stamps 🤣