International postal services
Which option are you looking for?
Option 1) A mailing house that can produce your international mail and post it worldwide at low prices?
Look no further! We are part of the word's 3rd largest postal operator, and we provide a comprehensive range of international mailing fulfilment services as well as international postal services.
GET A QUOTE >>Option 2) To produce your mail in-house or at your usual mailing house, but still benefit from postage discounts?
If you are producing the mail yourself you may still be able to benefit from our postal solution, if you produce it using our licensed postage paid indicias (PPI) and follow our production and sortation instructions, we can then arrange collection or delivery into us for final consolidation.
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Frequently asked questions
What do we offer? >>
How can we provide such low international postage prices? >>
What can you mail with BTB Mailflight? >>
Who uses our international mail solution? >>
What are our Mail Consolidation, Direct Entry, Local Look, MBags, Publication Post, and Remail services >>
Get an international postage quote
To get an international postage quote from us is easy. Just send the following information to info@btbmf.co.uk and we will provide you with a quote, or call us on 01234 84 84 15:
1) The dimensions and weight of the mail pieces?
2) Whether you require a Priority or Standard/Economy service? (or we can provide prices for both options).
3) The number of items to be mailed to each country?
4) The nature of item? i.e magazine, direct mail, packets etc?
5) The frequency of the mailing i.e monthly, one off etc?
6) Special requirements i.e. local-look service, registered service etc?
7) Will we be producing the mail, or will you? (or your printer or your mailing house?)
We use a wide range of postal operators and mailing agents to offer you our lowest prices i.e. if a mailing list contains addresses in Nigeria, France, Germany, and Japan then we are likely to use four different partners for that one mailing i.e. Mail Africa, La Poste, Deutsche Post, and Hermes. We have over 80 postal partners!
What we do. The basics!
- We produce international mail for many clients i.e. print it, fulfil it, and sort it to the strict requirements of the postal operator of each individual country.
- We also take mail produced by our clients and consolidate that.
- The mail is delivered to our Heathrow operation where it is further sorted and bagged up ready to go onboard the aeroplane's of the various postal operators.
- The mail is injected directly into the destination postal system or is delivered by our hand delivery agent in that country.
- We use a wide range of postal operators and mailing agents to offer you our lowest prices i.e. if a mailing list contains addresses in Nigeria, France, Germany, and Japan then we are likely to use four different partners for that one mailing i.e. Mail Africa, La Poste, Deutsche Post, and Hermes.
How can we provide such low international postage prices?
- BTB Mailflight is a pioneering international mail consolidator with over 25 years experience of international postal services, we are industry experts with partners across the world.
- We use a wide range of postal operators and mailing agents to offer you our lowest prices i.e. if a mailing list contains addresses in Nigeria, France, Germany, and Japan then we are likely to use four different partners for that one mailing i.e. Mail Africa, La Poste, Deutsche Post, and Hermes.
- We are part of Europe's second largest postal group (turnover 20 billion euros), with delivery routes globally, so we benefit from preferential rates through the group network.
- Because we consolidate the mail of many clients we achieve wholesale postage rates and volume discounts with other postal operators too.
- We operate the largest network of direct entry postal services with agents in over 70 countries worldwide.
- We provide a wide range of services including Priority and Standard/Economy services and services for bulk mailings of letters, direct mail, magazines, journals, packets, parcels, Mbags etc.
- We are able to achieve extra discounts that many international mail companies can't achieve because we have sophisticated fulfilment, address formatting, and mail sorting capabilities.
- Our international postal solution is used by the likes of The Economist, Verisign, and OK! Magazine.
Our international postage prices are some of the lowest available from the UK, with postage prices to many countries up to 50% cheaper than Royal Mail's international postal services!
What can you mail with BTB Mailflight?
We specialise in bulk international mail distribution and our typical client will send 1000+ international mail pieces per mailing or per month. Examples of mailings we handle include:
- International direct mail campaigns
- International journal mailings
- International magazine mailings
- International invoice mailings
- International business mailings
- International newsletter mailings
- International report mailings
- International order fulfilment and distribution
- Bulk international packet mailings
- Bulk international parcel distribution
We are not suitable for businesses or consumers looking for a postal company to collect a few dozen mail pieces each day/week, or for people looking to send the occasional parcel overseas. However our sister company Mailflight Couriers could help you if you are based in London, visit www.mfcourier.com
Who uses our international mailing solution?
Our international mailing solution is used by well known magazine publishers, travel companies, mail order retailers, institutes/associations, ecommerce businesses, telecom's companies, consumer marketers, B2B suppliers etc. Names you might recognise include: The Economist, Boden, Verisign, OK! Magazine, Institute of Physics, and Telegraph Media Group.
Our international mailing service range
As well as providing some of the lowest international postage prices available we also provide the widest range of international postal options.
- Priority postal services.
- Standard/Economy postal services worldwide.
- All mail formats: letters, flats (large letters, magazines, catalogues, brochures, journals etc), packets, parcels, and M-bags.
- Mail consolidation.
- Remail.
- Direct entry
- Local look mail, and local business reply service
- Periodical postal solutions (magazines and journals).
- M-Bags (postal delivery of heavier mail).
- Packet and parcel deliveries.
- Royal Mail Services (Mailsort, Presstream, PacketPost, CBC, OCR etc) and alternative UK postal services.
- Mail Fulfilment (direct mail, polywrapping, pick and pack mailsorting, address enhancement etc).
Why choose BTB Mailflight's international mailing solution?
BTB Mailflight's international postal services are used by some of the UK's leading organisations because:
- Low prices: We offer some of the lowest international postage prices available.
- Quality Service: We are ISO9001:2000 quality accredited and are approved by the Direct Marketing Association, Periodical Publishers Association, and Mail Consolidators Association (DMA, PPA, MCA).
- Reliable: We are approved by the International Mail Distribution Accreditation Scheme (IMDAS) which proves that our postal services are reliable, and delivery aims are accurate.
- Many service options: We have one of the widest range of international mailing services and options i.e. priority, standard/economy, letters, flats, packets, parcels, local look, direct entry, periodical post, M-bags etc.
- Unrivalled client service: BTB Mailflight has a reputation for providing high quality and reliable international mailing services and proactive account management.
- Part of Europe's second largest postal group: We have the backing of La Poste, Europe's second largest postal operator, that invested heavily in BTB Mailflight in March 2008.
- Mail fulfilment services: We provide the full range of mail fulfilment services including:
- polywrapping (addressing, inserting, selective insertion, covermounting etc).
- direct mail production (inkjet addressing, laser printing, enveloping etc).
- lettershop (letters, invoices, statements, renewal notices etc).
- pick and pack (63,000 sq ft order fulfilment operation, with contact centre).
If we are also handling the mail fulfilment as well as the postage you can be assured that we will print the postal indicias correctly, format the addresses correctly, and sort the mail to the requirements of the different postal operators. - International mail preparation: We undertake all of the mail preparation including mail sortation, bagging, tagging, strapping, paletisation, paperwork completion etc. We are experienced in adhering to the requirements of the various postal operators that collect from us. We make mailings ready for collection by Royal Mail, alternative UK postal services, international postal operators, and courier companies every day. Wherever possible these processes are automated to reduce costs and improve production speeds and quality. Find out more about our mail fulfilment and polywrapping services.
- Case studies: Lots of other leading organisations use us, and have done for many years. Read case studies.