Fundamentally BTB Mailflight are able to provide such low international postage prices because we are 'mail consolidators', and are one of the biggest and most experienced mail consolidators in the UK.
We consolidate all types of mail including:
- Direct mail
- Letters
- Business post
- Magazines
- Journals
- Packets
Most of the mail we consolidate is produced by us on behalf of our clients, but we also consolidate mail produced by clients and their suppliers and delivered into us i.e. their mailing houses and printers.
What does a mail consolidator do?
We produce mail for hundreds of clients, all in accordance with the regulations of the destination countries, which includes printing the appropriate postal indicia and address formatting (or we receive mail from clients produced correctly in accordance with our instructions and using our licensed PPIs). We mix and sort the mail according to the requirements of the receiving postal authority and then the mail is bagged and labeled appropriately to meet the requirements of the destination country or region.
By consolidating the mail of many clients and presenting it in a "sorted" condition to the postal operators we effectively handle some of the initial work for the postal operator, leaving the postal operator with less processing to undertake and fewer resources to employ. Also we leverage the collective might of all our clients negotiate with postal operators and they offer a trade rate to us which reflects the huge volumes of mail we give them. These rates are much cheaper than the general tariff.
Postal operators are only really interested in handling very large volumes of mail so clients alone cannot usually access these services at all, let alone achieve discounts.
We also work with mail specialists e.g. those that only specialise in the distribution of periodicals, or express mail, or lightweight direct mail etc, and these operators only work with the trade.
La Poste, the French postal authority, invested in BTB Mailflight in March 2008, and although we are far from obliged to use them we do now have privileged access to their services. So where they are the most cost effective we will obviously use them. The investment of this £15 billion organisation will see us go from strength to strength and will help La Poste in their aim to develop a foothold in the UK.
We also have sophisticated data processing, mail fulfilment and sorting capabilities which clients, and their printers, simply do not have. We also have many years experience and established supplier relationships, with many agents across the world. Our global network has taken years to cultivate and we are continually developing our solution.
By working with the widest range of postal operators we have access to a range of delivery options and prices, and can offer a mixture of services for delivering direct mail, transactional mail, customer correspondence, catalogues, magazines, journals, packets and parcels etc.
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