Royal Mail Parcel Collect is the title - yet it is for letters too

I had to return an item and this method was booked by the company. It was convenient for me, the label was provided by the postman, and I was given an hour slot that the parcel would be picked up in.

I used this service to send Christmas presents last year. It worked a treat.

I’ve used this for 18 months and I’m not confused.

Thanks everyone, good to know.
May also be useful for those who are stuck at home with disabilities too.

Or in a village like me some miles from a Post. Office - the extra 72p or whatever to have it collected is less than I would spend on petrol and possibly parking! I just leave it at the front door - the house is set far enough back from the road and the front door is not visible - and Paul my friendly postie just picks it up.

Yes, exactly Maw, great idea

I arranged collection of DH’s driving license.
They didn’t have the printed returns label that I requested (my printer is an ex-printer).
The postman (who I have previous with) assured me that he’d sort it out.
The driving license was lost.
But I blame the postman entirely; not the service.
He is a rather foolish man

PS I didn’t just ‘request’ the label; I also paid for it

NotSpaghetti

Thanks everyone, good to know.
May also be useful for those who are stuck at home with disabilities too.

Yes, that’s why I used it.
I knew at the time I shouldn’t have entrusted the useless postie with the driving license.
I knew as soon as I shut the front door that I had done the wrong thing!

It says on the Royal Mail site:

If you are opting to use the Bring My label service, your postie can only bring one pre-printed postage label if the collection is from your Safeplace.

That would imply that he or she will attach the label but this service only extents to one collection item - which is probably to avoid the potential for the wrong labels being put on the wrong items if multiple unlabelled items are left in the Safeplace.

At the bottom of this page:

www.royalmail.com/collection

Yes.

The web page does not seem to actually explicitly cover a I am at home yet as I am socially isolating I would like the postperson to affix the label as if I am out please situation, or a I am at home but can the postperson knock the door and we do a social distance passing of the parcel and the postperson affix the label please as there is no outside safeplace for me to place it situation.

I suppose that whether that is impossible or pleased to help may depend upon the temperament of the particulsr postperson.

Why are you still socially distancing?

Not distancing Maw - isolating!

Dear me. How can a simple service (which I have used) be made to sound so complex? And yes, why on earth would you not hand your parcel over on the doorstep like any normal person does?

The post person wouldn’t care (or even know) if you were home. Just identify a safe place and leave the item there as if you were out.

We’ve had some collections, both package and letters and all has been fine.
Other days the item hasn’t come up on the Postman’s hand held device and the item has had to be left behind to be collected another day.
It got so annoying that now we don’t bother.

MawtheMerrier

Why are you still socially distancing?

Because the COVID-19 situation is at level 3.

I consider that there is no need to take an unnecessary risk of catching COVID-19 or flu or colds or whatever when the precautionary measure is no great problem to do.

Please stand by for fireworks!

You are asked to nominate or describe your collection SafePlace during the order process. The postman or woman will bring the prepaid label, go to the SafePlace, attach the label to the item and take it away. No need to be at home or have any contact. Temperament is irrelevant. Royal Mail is proving a professional service.

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OakDryad

You are asked to nominate or describe your collection SafePlace during the order process. The postman or woman will bring the prepaid label, go to the SafePlace, attach the label to the item and take it away. No need to be at home or have any contact. Temperament is irrelevant. Royal Mail is proving a professional service.

Yes.

I was just considering if the person is at home, self-isolating, but, as at many houses, there is no safe place to leave a parcel that is accessible from the front garden, if indeed there is any front garden at all or just a very minimal one about four feet long.

That seems a not unlikely scenario at many homes across the country.

In that case, you could interact with them via an upstairs window, like you used to do with the Tesco delivery.
Assuming you are in.

Throwing a parcel out of an upstairs window may be inadvisable …