Online Paid Postage Is The Future!

''We need to carefully balance our pricing against declining letter volumes and increasing costs of delivering to a growing number of addresses six days a week''

"We’ve added barcodes to all our regular stamps - Regular stamps without a barcode* will no longer be valid after 31 January 2023, the deadline was later extended to July 31, 2023, following growing concerns."

Says Royal Mail.

While the number of letters our postmen and women deliver has declined from around 20 billion a year to around seven billion since 2004/05, the number of addresses they have to deliver to has grown by around 3.5 million in the same period

Critics condemned the short window in which to use stamps — originally around ten months from when it was first announced in February 2022.

The Royal Mail price increases for 2023 can be attributed to several conflicting factors towards accelerating development and remain financially stable due to:
· Falling revenues
· Higher energy costs
· Rise of inflation
· Cost of living crisis
· Increase in wages
· Post-pandemic drop in demand

If you want to make the most of lower stamp prices and avoid holding on to books of unusable stamps, lease or buy a mailmark franking machine today.. see how much you can save compared to a normal franking machines and postage stamps for business 1st or 2nd class letter postage rates including Parcel delivery.

In November 2022, Royal Mail had mistakenly sent letters to almost 3,000 customers claiming it had not received any stamps with their swap form.

How should business organisations conduct themselves?

High-volume mailers may benefit from conducting in-depth analysis and liaising with different providers to see if they can reduce their postage costs.

How to keep business mailing cost down?

Investing in print and post solutions can result in significant cost savings whilst increasing the quality of communication and boosting employee productivity, with mailing management solutions such as TRAXsuite you can save both time and money by reducing likelihood of duplicate mail and ensure your outbound customer communication always reaches its intended target.

Forget about mistyped postal addresses, recipient names or wasted envelopes; leasing or renting a franking machine means you only have to pay for the successfully delivered mail,

This means that you can take advantage of discounted rates that may otherwise not be available for your print volumes.

Rather than wasting precious time on tedious and monotonous stamp duty tasks, your employees can feel more empowered and productive by providing greater value in other areas of the organization.

Nevertheless, organizations that send hundreds of documents daily and rely on postal services to build customer relationships will be most affected.

However, organizations must also ensure their operational procedures are as cost-effective as possible.

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