I have a number of parcel to send off, I purchased postage through Amazon. All the postage labels state "post by the end of 26/8/24" which is a bank holiday. Post offices are shut and mail will not be collected today. Will I get slammed with late dispatch ?

Today noticed my VTR had dropped from 100% to 79.85% – 29 items were flagged in the report downloaded.

On closer inspection all the the items flagged had postage purchased through Amazon – Royal Mail Signed For 2nd Class. It was my understanding postage purchased through Amazon would not cause VTR issues.

Anybody any thoughts, is this a glitch or do I need to take action. If so what?

I come across this forum a lot about using Amazon postage. And I am asking myself, why should I? I am quite comfortable using RM postage. Over some discussions, I can see some animated discussions on why we "must" use Amazon postage to prevent a hit on metrics or something like that.

I haven't really explored this option.

And therefore I know nothing.

However, I can see four huge benefits buying postage off RM.

1, Clarity on size and weight

2, Free Collection

3, Free Label

4, This might sound sad but many a time I wouldn't have balance on Amazon, using RM means I use credit card

Why on earth should I buy postage off amazon.

And actually looking at drop menu, I notice that several services are not in use. Like Amazon logistics for example. Many are greyed out. Well this is something I saw several years ago. I haven't checked recently. And at the time I thought to myself, why on earth do they offer this feature when half the services are not in use.

And what is all this noise about VTR, please?

Should I be worried that I know nothing about VTR?