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I found one of the flat packed Peak Imaging freepost boxes today. As I've got a few rolls to send off, does anyone know if they still work or if I now need to pay postage in advance?
Reminds me of when I found several rolls of process paid Fuji Sensia at the bottom of the fridge, only to find that Fuji had ceased their "free" processing some time previously. Oh well.To update my own thread - I called them this morning to check, and you need to pay postage. So if anyone finds one of their boxes or labels I'm afraid we've missed the boat!
Ahh. Sorry to have mislead you. I always assumed (there's my mistake!) that if packaging had pre-paid postage, that it would be honoured. After all, how would you know who might have some of the pre-paid packeging and how would you be able to proactively let them know it was no longer useable?To update my own thread - I called them this morning to check, and you need to pay postage. So if anyone finds one of their boxes or labels I'm afraid we've missed the boat!
No problem! I think the problem is that freepost isn't prepaid, so companies can discontinue it.Ahh. Sorry to have mislead you. I always assumed (there's my mistake!) that if packaging had pre-paid postage, that it would be honoured. After all, how would you know who might have some of the pre-paid packeging and how would you be able to proactively let them know it was no longer useable?
Wow that's extremely missleading on their part then as they still send them out to you with every order (including one I had back from them last week). TBH I usually send mine in a jiffy bag anyway and pay for 1st class postage to speed things up. However I still find it strange that they send these things out to customers with no explaination saying you still have to pay. Pretty poor show in my opinion if this is definitely the case.
I think they were pretty upfront about it in my experience. This is what I received when I got my last set of negatives back about a month ago...
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I have occasionally put too little postage on my films sent Filmdev. They usually take about an extra week to arrive, and get charged an extra fee, which used o be £3 or so... which added to my original stamp, was only a little more than the proper small parcel rate. Filmdev would then charge me.I have been sending film to peak for a long long time, but wasn't informed about this at the time of my last order.
I've posted a film away last week to them using the freepost address box that I was sent by them, and it hasn't arrived yet, a week to the day.
Has anyone any ideas about what will happen to it? I assume it will still be delivered to them?
I had an eBay purchase recently where the seller thought the jiffy bag would qualify as a large letter, but it clearly wasn't. I got a card through the door telling me that the postage had been underpaid and I would have to login to RM with the card ID and pay the additional postage, and the item would be delivered 2 days later. This all went smoothly and I agreeed with the seller that he would pay the extra postage. I would imagine there would be something similar for the transition period of Peak boxes, but Peak would presumably then charge the customer? I could see where RM might collect a few and charge them once a week, rather than daily, so maybe that's where the film is?