Royal Mail Stamp Swap

I sent just under £500 worth back to them a few months ago. Paid for the recorded delivery, then input the cost of it onto the form (don't think that's available on the standard swap but is on the bulk swap).

Took about a week and a half and I got the right amount of stamps back including extra ones for the postage so no issues for me. I sent them a mixture of first and second class standard, first class large and 1, 2, 5 and 10p stamps.

I had about £100 of stamps, and I was worried about sending them to a generic Freepost address without any sort of proof. Since I understood the level of compensation to be £20 on standard post (with proof of postage), I bundled mine into five lots of £20. The lady at the post office wasn't sure how to issue a proof of postage because "Freepost Swap Out" obviously isn't a standard address, but she managed to override the system and I got proof of postage for each envelope.

Three lots of £20 came back to me pretty quickly, but the last two took about a fortnight longer for some reason. The only gripe I had was that they sent me back A4 sheets of stamps, which are a nightmare to store, rather than the books of stamps I sent them.

I sent mine just before 6th October but didn't get a COP or send it recorded delivery. Luckily, the replacements arrived today but the envelope is marked clearly that it is stamp swap so if anyone lives in a shared property and you don't trust your fellow sharers, I suggest you get to the post first!

The replacement stamps arrived today so pretty quick given the interspersed strike actions.
The only bone of contention is I sent in nice neat booklets of stamps and they sent me back bloody pages of stamps. I had the booklets neatly stored in a kitchen cupboard, these damned pages will have to be stored in some sort of folder (edited)

Ta for the like @fern37 finally made me do another two that is five now
had to send off for another form to do the last lot

Ironic that you can't trust royal mail with stamps. Really gets on my tits when you're expected to pay extra to delivery companies for insurance to cover against themselves not doing their own job!

I sent 21 stamps, a mix of First and Second class. Got the new ones back within 10 days. This was done just over a month ago.

Would they still "swap out" if you sent £100 worth, say, of stamps via the 'over £200' form and used the recorded delivery option?

Well I finally got round to posting my first batch off, just under £200 of 1st and 2nd normal and large letter stamps.

I went to PO and got a COP and took pics of the form and all the stamps. Will be an interesting 2+ weeks wait given the strike action.

Given the success of the swap I'm going to get the 2nd batch sorted out and posted out now

My 2nd set of replacements arrived today, even got a few quid more back than I had sent