UK postal services
We can produce your mail in accordance with each UK postal operators requirements, sort the mail correctly, and prepare it for collection, to help you obtain maximum postage cost savings.
We have accounts with Royal Mail and alternative postal operators who provide us with wholesale rates and volume discounts which we can pass on to you, or we can use your own postage account.
4 ways we help businesses reduce their UK postage costs:
- Royal Mail Discounts: As one of Royal Mail's largest partners we can produce and sort your mailings to enable you to achieve Mailsort discounts and volume discounts that can be as high as 30%! Find out more >>
- DownStream Access: We provide our own DownStream Access (DSA) postal solution which can provide significant discounts on Royal Mail's equivalent sorted postal service. The likes of Boden and Laura Ashley have saved £1000's using this service!
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- Alternative UK postal accounts: 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 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.
- Injecting 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 postage discounts.
There are many postal operators in the UK mail market now that Royal Mail's monopoly has been ended, so to get the lowest postage costs for your UK mailings it is important you choose a mailing house that can offer all the UK postal services now available as well as Royal Mail's services.
Send us your mailing list and production brief and we will be able identify the most cost effective UK postal solution and make our recommendations to you.
Why choose us to handle your UK mailings?
- We are one of Royal Mail's largest partners so can help you maximise your discounts through their Mailsort options. Find out more >>
- We produce mail to the requirements of the many alternative postal operators that now operate in the UK, including TNT, Citipost, UK Mail, DHL, Secure Mail etc. Find out more >>
- We provide our own DownStream Access postal solution which can be cheaper than Royal Mail's equivalent postal service. Find out more >>
- We handle all types of mail including direct mail, letters, magazines, packets, and parcels.
- We handle mail that is being posted to residential and business addresses.
- If you also have international address to mail to we can mail those to. Find out more >>
- We provide the full range of UK mailing fulfilment services from direct mail production and polywrapping to mail order pick and pack.
- We undertake all of the mail preparation including sortation, bagging, tagging, strapping, paletisation, paperwork completion etc. Wherever possible we use technology to reduce costs and improve production speeds and quality.
Royal Mail services
BTB Mailflight are one of Royal Mail's largest partners and we are able to ensure clients can take advantage of Royal Mail's complete range of options including:
- Mailsort 1, 2 and 3
- Presstream
- Walksort
- Mailsort Light
- Mailsort OCR
- Mailsort CBC
- Packetpost
- Parcel services
We are licensed to print barcodes for CBC Mailsort mailings, and are able to print Mailsort OCR approved fonts. We can also set up PO Boxes and handle the mailing returns and responses.
Although we encourage client's to use their Royal Mail Account Manager as their first port of call for advice about Royal Mail's services and prices, we do have significant experience of Royal Mail and are happy to offer our knowledge about their services.
Royal Mail Prices
UK postage prices are available direct from Royal Mail, but we also have access to their business postage pricing calculator so if you are interested in our services and would also like a UK postage Estimate we can send you a copy.
Alternative UK postal services
We produce mailings to be posted by Royal Mail's competitors including the likes of DHL, UK Mail, TNT, Citipost etc, and we have also developed our own Downstream Access UK postal solution too. Find out more >>