Royal Mail second class signed for
If I select Royal Mail second class signed for, and insert the tracking number and take it to my local PO will this effect my vtr ?
can see me having to put my shipping rates up if I have to buy through Amazon as I usually use the stamps/franking option and send with Free Shipping via Royal Mail.
For now I’m continuing to use the stamps/franking option sending with no tracking but can see down the line having vtr problems.
Cheers.
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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
From today on this is invalid as far as we know
If you are buying postage from the post office, you may as well buy from amazon as its the same rates
Seller_yGFP9vQJKe1zg
Can anyone explain what we do if we use franked mail? I am sending LL letters using my franking machine but how do I get this to pass the VTR thing?
Seller_yGFP9vQJKe1zg
So does that make the franking machine basically useless for all untracked post? Also, who has the time to go through and type in every tracking number or code for 100+ items a day 
Seller_DTufFoxJuMU0M
Yes customers love to pay more for things they don’t need to, and have the inconvenience of having to go to the post office or arrange redeliveries when they weren’t in for the signature many will now be requesting.
Seller_ATuN59NWPkObT
Still so unclear different answers from different people.
If only Amazon could clarify the situation regarding what option to use when using a local PO that won’t affect the vtr.
Seller_yGFP9vQJKe1zg
The price is frustrating, but equally frustrating for us is not being able to use our franking machine which we are signed up for for the next 2 years. We also outsource some of our items to another company who dispatch for us, which again leaves us with no tracking unless we send those items with tracking, and again we would then have to manually input each tracking number. Just seems like a lot more work for very little extra benefit
Seller_58y2FhNkywdyp
nobody has mentioned choosing ‘self-delivery’ from the drop down menu, i wonder if this would be the new loophole?
Seller_bm9MCPckbwjAk
- Domestic Orders delivered through a carrier which is not integrated with Amazon 2. Digital products, e.g. Audio Book 3. EU Cross border deliveries, e.g. deliveries that are ordered on Amazon.co.uk and are dispatched from an EU country 4. International deliveries (excluding deliveries that are dispatched from China): International packages that are ordered on Amazon.co.uk but dispatched from outside the UK or China 5. Domestic deliveries dispatched through untracked delivery methods, for example Royal Mail Stamps/Franking 6. Deliveries that are dispatched using labels purchased on Amazon’s Buy Shipping Services (also known as MSS)
If VTR for stamps was no longer exempted point 5 would need to be removed. It is still there.
You can find it alongside your VTR stats in performance menu as various reasons for VTR exemption
While it is there - I’m carrying on with the good old tried & tested postage stamp:)
Seller_19xPhE8YgkmxW
Hi Dedez
As far as I can tell Large Letters under 100 g, paid for over the counter at the Post Office will only get a stamp (unless Signed For) and so DO NOT GET A TRACKING NUMBER!
The Post Office are insistent that these do not get a Post Office label so no tracking number!
So buy post with Amazon - or they’re invalid?
All Best
Brian
Seller_ATuN59NWPkObT
when vtr was first introduced I started to use Royal Mail signed for and sent everything recorded delivery and entered the tracking number on dispatch But my vtr kept dropping, so back in the same boat now and I can just see it all going pear shaped again.
anyhow for the rest of the month I’ve decided tol continue to use stamps/franking and cross this bridge again this time next month.
