Mailshot - Pack and post companies
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Might be worth trying Harwood Marketing - www.hmkt.com
They do all of that stuff - print, mail merge, clean your data, insertion, etc. They have contracts with some of the very big subscription companies (Conde Nast, for example), but will do mailings as low as 4,000. Note that this is the minimum amount to get a decent price reduction from Royal Mail. TNT also do bulk mailings, but, AFAIK, the minimum with them is 10,000.
If you want to go with them, ask for Rex. He's a good mate of mine.
Garrett
They do all of that stuff - print, mail merge, clean your data, insertion, etc. They have contracts with some of the very big subscription companies (Conde Nast, for example), but will do mailings as low as 4,000. Note that this is the minimum amount to get a decent price reduction from Royal Mail. TNT also do bulk mailings, but, AFAIK, the minimum with them is 10,000.
If you want to go with them, ask for Rex. He's a good mate of mine.
Garrett
Just for the record, I've been on the phone to Royal mail and for lowend mailings like upto around 4k, they don't give any discount etc.
Their advice was to use smartstamp, which I can see the advantages of. However I see that as being more costly for a one off. I'm now off down to the post office to buy 2000 second class stamps.
Cheers,
JC
Their advice was to use smartstamp, which I can see the advantages of. However I see that as being more costly for a one off. I'm now off down to the post office to buy 2000 second class stamps.
Cheers,
JC
jconsta6 said:
Just for the record, I've been on the phone to Royal mail and for lowend mailings like upto around 4k, they don't give any discount etc.
Their advice was to use smartstamp, which I can see the advantages of. However I see that as being more costly for a one off. I'm now off down to the post office to buy 2000 second class stamps.
Cheers,
JC
Their advice was to use smartstamp, which I can see the advantages of. However I see that as being more costly for a one off. I'm now off down to the post office to buy 2000 second class stamps.
Cheers,
JC
And this is exactly why you need to go to a mailing house! What they will do is this. They will bunch together a number of smaller mailings, all mailsorted, and say to Royal Mail that it's a 24,000 mailshot. The fact that it's six different companies sending out a mailshot to 4,000 of their customers each is irrelevant.
So, you get the mailings posted at 14.7p on a Mailsort 3 / Walksort deal, rather than having to pay for second-class postage. There is the insertion fee to consider, but this is usually offset by the savings on postage.
Never, ever, ever take advice from Royal Mail. Speak to your nearest mailing house, they will know a way to get your mailing out at the cheapest possible rate.
Sorry to jump onto this forum so late but maybe able to help. I own a company that supplies mailing machinery all over the Uk and overseas. Let me know where you are and your email or contact details and can get a local company to contact you. With regard to mail inserting cost expect to pay £10 per 1000 plus a small set-up charge. Most mailing machines these days can stuff 12,000 envelopes an hour so a job of this size dosen't take long.
This is interesting. I run a small business which sends out about 50-100 parcels a day but they have a little bit of bulk (no bigger than you can fit in a 220x170 CD type bubble envelope). With the new pricing structure the Royal Mail has implemented (cost by size instead of weight) it means the cost goes up and I'm looking for a way to bring it back down. Are there mailing houses which do this sort of thing on a a daily basis? Or some other alternative?. TNT phoned me the other day to arrange an appointment which I thought was for the post I'm sending but based on the figures stated in this thread it must be something to do with my imports. I'll have to phone them to make sure, I don't want to waste our time.
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