Cheaper postage - how to keep postage costs down
What are you looking for?
- Royal Mail Discounts: As one of Royal Mail's largest partners we can produce and sort your mailings to enable you to achieve Mailsort postage discounts and volume discounts that can be as high as 30%! Find out more >>
- Alternatives to Royal Mail: We provide our own DownStream Access (DSA) postal solution which can provide significant postage discounts on Royal Mail's equivalent sorted postal service. The likes of Boden and Laura Ashley have saved £1000's on UK postage using this postal service!
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- A mailing house that can process your mail in accordance with your alternative postage supplier: We can process mailings to be posted by the likes of TNT, Citipost, UK Mail, DHL, Secure Mail etc, so if you are big enough to have your own postage account with them we can handle your mail fulfilment. We understand exactly how to print, sort and present the mail ready for collection by these postal operators.
- To inject mail into the UK from overseas: As well as handling UK mailings for many UK companies we also work with international businesses looking to inject mail into the UK postal network and achieve cheaper postage and maximum discounts.
Keep size and weight down to reduce postage costs too
The postage element of mailing is almost always the most expensive part, so getting cheaper postage can be a major benefit. BTB Mailflight can often provide cheaper postage for uk and international mailings, but as well as using a mail consolidator like us to get cheap postage there are other things you can do to get cheaper postage.
Avoid light "large letters" - Fold A4 if possible
Folding A4 items will move the item from a "large letter" to a "letter" classification and give you cheaper postage.
Watch the thickness
Many "packets" could qualify for cheaper "letter" or "large letter" prices. If you keep the thickness to less than 5mm (letter) or 25mm (large letter) you will get cheaper postage.
A3 packet is cheaper than packet
Only available for bulk mail users but often a cheaper postage option for some items e.g. parts and samples, books, cylindrical packages.
Use the "free" weight
The first postage price band now extends to 100g instead of 60g. Can you use the additional weight to get more value for the same postage? If you go above 100g think if you can use any additional "free" weight since the price now remains the same up to 250g.
Any shape within postage format is allowed
Provided you are within the overall dimensions of the postage format you can still mail round, star shaped or other unusual shape mailers at the same price as a "conventional" shape.
Why is choosing a mailing house that can get you cheaper postage so important?
The postage element of most mailings is the most expensive part of the mailing so getting cheaper postage is the best way to keep the overall costs down. Postage savings can easily outweigh cheaper print, cheaper fulfilment, and cheaper materials prices, so finding a mailing house that can provide cheaper postage is very important.
Many mailing houses only fulfil mailings to be posted by Royal Mail, but there are now postal solutions that are cheaper than Royal Mail, this includes for sorted mailings and unsorted mailings, so cheaper postage can be achieved on high volume mailings and mailings that do not hit the minimum volumes for Royal Mail postage doscounts.
BTB Mailflight provides cheaper UK postage by working with not only Royal Mail, but also with many other UK postal operators, hand delivery companies, and courier partners.
We have provided cheaper international postage solutions for 30 years, so now that the UK postal market is open to competition as Royal Mail's monopoly has been ended we are looking forward to developing our cheaper UK postage solution too.