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Plan of Action: Improving Royal Mail Parcel Locker Functionality for Multi-Parcel Business Users 1. Background and Issue Summary Business s
Plan of Action: Improving Royal Mail Parcel Locker Functionality for Multi-Parcel Business Users
1. Background and Issue SummaryBusiness sellers on platforms such as eBay and Amazon frequently drop multiple parcels during a single visit. The current Royal Mail parcel locker system is primarily optimised for individual consumer use — designed for one parcel per locker, with automatic timeouts if the transaction is not completed quickly.
In the described scenario, a seller attempted to drop 30 parcels in one large locker after scanning a single tracking barcode, intending to consolidate the parcels for efficiency. However, due to a timeout in…
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Filter orders by whether they have been booked for collection or not
After purchasing labels, I need to book orders for collection. First 10 items work fine as I can bulk buy them but for the next 15, I usually have to buy them one by one, due to slot situation. it's hard to look for the ones i didnt book collection for, when they are all in same column 'ready for dispatch'. I think it would be really helpful to filter those by whether they've been booked for collection or not.
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Allow EDITS to orders
I find it very frustrating that as soon as I click on the order, I can't edit anything in it. All I can do is select the kind of postage it needs. I now have one order which needs itemized content for customs forms and I can't edit it, I can't add to it. Why should we not be able to edit the orders?
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Recent DDP changes have broken label retrieval for non DDP international orders
Hi,
For context, my workflow is the following: eBay and Etsy orders are retrieved via the respective integrations. Shipping services are then purchased via the website (https://business.parcel.royalmail.com/), but labels are then retrieved via the API integration, by calling "https://api.parcel.royalmail.com/api/v1/orders/<order number>/label?documentType=postageLabel&includeReturnsLabel=false&includeCN=true" with the relevant Authorization header.
Since end of last month/early September, this endpoint has been returning 400 bad request errors when calling the API, citing missing fields. However a) this issue only occurs via the API, not when generating the labels via the website and b) the fields it claims are missing aren't things that are…
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Synchronisation planned despatch dates between shopify and click and drop
We can synchronise our website orders onto click and drop to create the shipment label. However, there seems no way for the planned despatch date to synchronise? This means we have to manually select shipments in click and drop and apply the planned despatch date. We have lots of different orders with different planned despatch dates so it would be very useful to have if possible?
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US tax: form only calculates accurately for one item. Does not recalculate for multiple items
I am trying the new extended protocol for calculating US tariff charges in advance and the form does not seem to react when I add a second item to the order. Or if the order is created with multiple items. The form only displays the charge based on the cost of the first item on the list.
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More SKU's lines on the label
Hi Royal Mail team,
Please can you expand the number of SKU lines visible on Click & Drop labels?
At present, the “Customer Reference” block only shows ~3–4 lines of SKU text, even though the block itself has much more space available. The SKU list is vertically centred, leaving unused whitespace, and a large portion of the block is taken up by the logo area. In addition, the line “Royal Mail: UK’s lowest average parcel carbon footprint 200g CO2e” occupies space that could be better used for operational data.
Our proposal:
Move the SKU list to the top of the…
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How to send letters to the USA?
How do I send letters to the USA using Click and Drop please? The option do to this was removed on Tuesday.
In his email dated 28th August your colleague Micheal Irwin (Director of Export) says this "If you only send personal correspondence to the USA, you are not affected by these changes“ So this is the reason for my query on letters.
I’ve had product codes added to my account for parcels but I need to send letters to the USA. I’ve been using product code DP3 previously for sending letters to the USA.
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Need better tracking status updates
The tracking details, especially on international orders, does not update at all until the shipping is either delivered or is returned. I'm getting quite a few complaints and pressures about this from buyers.
We're in 2025. I am sure there must be a way for the postal services to have constant tracking updates, not only for international deliveries, but for local deliveries with the whereabouts can be tracked regularly.4 votes -
On the Open Orders Screen, save Column Configuration
On the Open Orders Screen, save Column Configuration at Account Level (not via cookie)
Currently the configuration is saved throughout logins and logouts, but only until cookies are cleared. (I delete all cookies fairly often to prevent clutter.)
Column config ought to be saved as part of the account setup, not via a cookie.
thanks
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Large letters can no longer be used for shipment - doubling postage fees
This is complete madness. My items which are small and qualify in size and weight as a Large Letter, can no longer be shipped as a large letter but a small parcel, DOUBLING the shipping costs!
This is insane.1 vote -
BUG: Shipments can only be filled as 'Document'
What's going on with C&D lately? It's just covered in one problem after another. Today, I can't send any item in any other category but "Documents". But I am not sending a document...
I am unable to change the Declaration category to sales, commercial sample, gift, etc. It only allows Document to be selected. Any other attempts give the following error message:"A Personal correspondence shipment must use Documents Declaration category
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Issues with payment of label
Sometimes after importing orders via .csv and following the payment screen after applying postage it will come back with 'sorry there has been an error' .. please retry.
You cannot retry it does not work.
When looking at the orders they are all listed as FAILED however you can go into each order, one at a time and reprint label and it will oblige. You cannot reprint labels for more than one item at a time when they are in this state.This has been bugging me for months as it takes plenty of unecessary time to manually select and…
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Twice attempted to arrange for parcel collection from another address.
First date for arranged collection Royal Mail e-mailed me to say no one at home when postman called yet the sender said he was in all day. I'd paid for the parcel label to be taken to the collection address. 2nd date arranged three days later. Paid a small fee for the next collection and on this date NO label taken to the collection address despite having paid for one so no collection made again. Total incompetence by Royal Mail. I've cancelled my order on the item I was trying to buy. The booking system is un necessarily long winded…
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The new import screen is awful, almost to the point of being unusable
The new import .csv file screen is shockingly bad.
When you import a file the entries are shown at the bottom of the screen. Each entry line takes about 50% of the screen height, thus when importing say 20 entries you have to scroll down 10 pages to find the IMPORT ORDERS button. Could we not have the button at the top and the bottom of the imported orders with a huge fix for the massive padding.1 vote -
Add Pay & Generate Labels With Collection
When you apply postage for an order, it would be great if you could pay for the postage and "book collection" on the same transaction. Currently, these have to be done separately, which is quite time-consuming.
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paying for lables
When we joined royal Mail click and drop we were assured, and we checked twice, that once we had brought the printer for the thermal labels from you, the labels themselves would ALWAYS be free.
What with your subsidies for fuel because fuel is going up, subsidies for making your vans green (so why do we need the fuel subsidy) and peak subsidies to pay for more postmen when you are busy over xmas (surely the extra parcels sent should pay for postmen or you have a very bad business model), this new fee is yet another thing hitting small…
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Sort your website out. When I try to print my label I am told to complete my Billing Address. I have completed my Billing Address !!!
Sort your website out. When I try to print my label I am told to complete my Billing Address. I have completed my Billing Address but still am asked to complete a Billing Address - what is going on !!!!!
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Product Customer Code Length Issue
When shipping to the Republic of Ireland, a 10-digit customer code is required for customs clearance. However, in Click & Drop, the system only allows 6 digits to be saved.
As a result, we have to manually amend the customer code every time we create a shipment by API. If this is not corrected, the parcel gets held in customs and can be delayed for up to a month.
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