Royal Mail screw balls

Post by **jobes** » Tue May 25, 2004 1:33 am

i posted two mailers at the same time,i got 1 film back fine

but where is the other one? oh here it is!! turned up a couple of days after i posted it,they sent it to ME! and not the kodak lab address below where the stamp goes??????????????

Post by **sunrise** » Tue May 25, 2004 2:12 am

This has happened several times to me also...

sunrise

Post by **BolexPlusX** » Tue May 25, 2004 4:22 am

Can't really blame the Royal Mail, the United States Postal Service has done it to me at least twice!

Since then I always add "From:" and "To:" in red felt tip to help them along. So far, so good.

Post by **Angus** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:56 am

Happens occasionally...although they are supposed to use the address on the same side of the mailer as the stamps sometimes this doesn't happen.

I am not sure if this is because the sorters these days aren't so familiar with cine films or if it's due to the sorting machines occasionally making mistakes...since most sorting is automated these days.

Back in the days when Agfa was still in the cine business I regularly got my films returned the next day, or two days later...unprocessed of course! The Agfa people advised me to put "From" above my own address, and they then affixed a film ID label over this on return.

Kodak however have told me they prefer not to have "from" above the return address because they don't put ID stickers on the mailers and it can confuse the post office.

Since I re-started using super 8 in 2000 I've only had one cartridge returned in that manner so I think things are much better...either that or the Luton sorting office is more clued up than the Stevenage one!

Post by **synthnut** » Tue May 25, 2004 12:19 pm

Hia,
I find the best thing is to put "TO:" in big letters on Kodaks address and them when it comes back they chop thap part off, so no issues about it saying the wrong thing. Seems to have worked since I had a few just bounce straight back through the post...

Keep shooting the "reel" stuff!
Ben

Post by **jobes** » Tue May 25, 2004 12:49 pm

on the subject did anyone see that channel 4 doc about the post office? it all starts to make sense when i think about that program

Post by **Old Uncle Barry** » Tue May 25, 2004 2:14 pm

I just put the return address on the mailers but send multiples in bulk in a padded evelope.The postage is cheaper too sending this way.Furthermore,I get them back in bulk too...............just lucky I suppose.
Oh! yes,this applies to 16mm too.

Post by **Astro** » Tue May 25, 2004 2:35 pm

I post them inside another padded plain envelope with large print for the Kodak Address.
But still my Honeymoon film was lost by Kodak sa...what gives.
Astro

Post by **jhoneycutt** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:09 pm

Astro wrote:I post them inside another padded plain envelope with large print for the Kodak Address.
But still my Honeymoon film was lost by Kodak sa...what gives.
Astro

Well, you can always stock up on film and get married again....

jack

Post by **al77** » Tue May 25, 2004 9:30 pm

jobes wrote:...turned up a couple of days after i posted it,they sent it to ME! and not the kodak lab address below where the stamp goes??????????????

Exact same thing happened to me a few months ago!
Royal mail really must be in trouble, I've had more problems like this in the last year than in the last ten put together!
Getting letters addressed to my neighbours was happening all the time a few months ago. I read in the local paper about how a council worker found a pile of about 200 undelivered letters on a refuse tip in lancaster or morecambe, it's scary!

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