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POSTAGE COSTS are the single biggest item in any direct mail campaign. Every aspect of POSTAGE CHARGES need to be looked at carefully to get the cheapest price consistant with what level of service you require.
SIZE
When planning your mailing you willl need to see if all items can be A/5 size. If so then you have immediately cut the cost per item for 2nd class inland from 44p to 31p (these are mailing house prices and are not what you would pay for a 2nd Class stamp at a PO).
An Insert or Brochure needs to be planned well ahead as whilst you can fold a letter you may not be able to fold a brochure. There is a small cost for folding but negligible compared to the savings on the postage.
On 1000 2nd class letters you can save £150 just by thinking of size.
FORWARD PLANNING
If you have to use A/4 or any size bigger than A/5 then you would do well to think of the quantity you need to send out.
Starting at just 1001 off you can reduce you postage bill on a 1000 2nd Class letters by up to £100. However this method takes a few days longer and you would want to allow 5 days for delivery. Again forward planning is the key.
Sometimes you have no choice but to post out 1st Class but in most cases thinking ahead would allow you to go for the cheaper option.
MAILSORT INLAND MAIL
For large inland mailings ie over 4001 off you would do well to think MAILSORT. This is where we do the sortation of your letters instead of Royal Mail. We sort using special sofware - by postcodes - your mail into anything up to 800 different locations. We bag and label and  these letters go straight to the local sorting office without being handled by Royal Mail. Hence we get a discount which we pass on to you minus a handling charge.
The main points about MAILSORT is that all the addresses must be Inland, 95% must have postcodes and the minimum quantity is 4001. The costings are very much weight related but the step bands are very small so an item weighting 110gms might cost you 27p (Large Letter C/4) - an item weighing 200gms might cost you 35p and an item weighing 249 gms will cost you 58p. If sent by normal post then all three items would cost you the same - 59p  each. Again a big saving.
The costings for MAILSORT are myriad and complex so suffice to say that we can save you money but we would need to look at each individual order to determine how much.
Then there is PACKETPOST  & PACKETSORT - RECORDED DELIVERY - SPECIAL DELIVERY and SAME DAY
You have MAILSORT 1, 2 and 3 - MAILSORT LITE - plus more specialised versions of MAILSORT  including WALKSORT, PRESSTREAM and CLEANMAIL
For most people, many of these services will never be of use or be used but they are available and they all are capable of saving clients money.

INTERNATIONAL MAIL
 
International Mail is presorted in-house into regions and countries. It is then bagged and labelled and sent to the RM International depot at Heathrow where it is sent all over the world. Even single items for a country attract a discount as these are amalgamated with post from other clients into a reasonable sized bundle.
 
Each country is costed separately by Royal Mail. These days it is more expensive to post to a country in Western Europe than
it is to Western Australia. As a rule of thumb we can offer a 50% discount on normal  public rates although it does vary greatly, depending on the final destination
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MACEVOY MAILINGS
UNIT 39
WENTA BUSINESS CENTRE
COLNE WAY
WATFORD
HERTS
WD24 7ND
 
Tel ; 01923 202009 (24 hour)
 
 
web site : www,macevoymailings.com