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Christmas is coming: it’s time to think how to send Cards & Presents!

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Christmas is coming. London starts to be decoreted and people are ready for the long month of advent.
During this period the economic problems will be pushed to the back of people’s minds by the organisation of Christmas details: buying presents and sending cards, attending parties and organising dinners, choosing the tree and finding the decorations.

Sometimes gifts and cards have to be sent far; so here some indication and links to organise your Christmas Mail:

Royal Mail – This year Royal Mail wants to make things a little easier extending enquiry office opening hours between the 15th December until Christmas. To make sure that people receive all their packages they have introduced new evening deliveries on Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd December and redeliveries on Sunday 21st December. Here more about prices.

DHL – DHL is the global market leader of the international express and logistics industry, combining with worldwide coverage and an in-depth understanding of local markets. This international network links more than 220 countries and territories worldwide.

City Link – The English company provides services in UK, Ireland and around the world and plans extended hours and special prices to satisfy its customers during the Christmas period.

FedEx – Fed Express offers special holiday shipping, including exceptions money-back guarantee.

Timing and prices depends from destination, size and weight. Don’t wait too long to be sure that your family and friends will receive your Christmas Gifts in time.

Postal procedure: all you have to know

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So you’ve signed up for a mail forwarding account with us and now you’re curious as to how exactly we handle your mail. Here you go:

  • Your mail arrives at one of our two available addresses, 145-157 St John Street, or 26 York Street (both in London).
  • Our dedicated post team then sort through the mail, separating it depending on size and weight.
  • All the mail is then sorted again and each piece of mail is stamped with the relevant 4-digit account number.
  • The mail is then placed in pigeonholes where it is ordered numerically. This is done to ensure that all your mail is sent out together rather than in multiple batches, saving on your postage costs.
  • Once ordered it is posted using our up-to-date database to your requested forwarding address, anywhere in the world. Once this is done we send you an email letting you know how many letters you are due to receive.

Remember, posting your mail isn’t the only thing we can do with it. If you are in the London area you can come and collect it (as long as notice is given to us) at our 145-157 St John Street address anytime between 9 and 5.30 Monday to Friday. If you choose this option we will email you letting you know that mail is ready to be collected. You can also have your mail scanned to your email address before we either post it on or you collect it. Finally, if you are not expecting a great deal of mail we can send it out to you once a week, also saving on the cost of postage. If in doubt, then browse the site or just email us at [email protected]. Ciao for now.

Hail to the mail!

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9am on a Monday and the Royal Mail bags come down. Not the most exciting occurrence you may think but these large grey sacks maybe, just maybe contain the hopes and dreams of a brand new company. A weekend’s worth of mail ready to be sorted and sent on to the rightful owner. It’s quite a responsibility.

Perhaps it was the business card given out at the conference last week, the pen left behind after a meeting, maybe even the website. Who knows? But somehow, someone has got hold of the business address and the company is now “live”, dealing in the currency of hard mail.

Now working in any postal department may not be the most glamorous job in the world (it did after all give birth to the phrase “going postal ”) but to see a company grow can give a real level of satisfaction. Once that business address is out there the floodgates are open and watching that trickle of mail turn into a torrent, feeding the company opportunities gives almost a sense of duty. If the mail is the lifeblood of a company we are the veins.

Okay, enough of the whimsy. The truth remains though that mail remains an integral part of any business so the importance of every piece of mail must never be underestimated. One man’s junk mail is another man’s unique business opportunity and with email accounts being clogged up with more spam than Tesco, operations are reclaiming direct mail as a tool to get across their product, engage their customers and make all new business connections.

So the moral of the story? Don’t underestimate the power of your mail, sending or receiving!