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Postal Discounts

We want to get you the best deal. Which is why we recommend Royal Mail products such as Mailsort, Presstream and Packetpost for the best postal discounts.

How can we give you postal discounts? Firstly, we make sure your mailing has the right addresses and post codes and then we sort it into specific geographical groups. This saves the Royal Mail time because we’ve done the sorting for them they then give us postal discounts which we can pass on to you.

Royal Mail’s range of Mailsort products are ideal for mailings over 4000 letters and could save you up to 30% on the standard cost of mail.If your mailing contains packages we recommend the Packetpost service. And Presstream is ideal for sending newspapers, newsletters, journals and magazines.

We can also offer cheap overseas rates with great discounts on Royal Mail Airmail rates.

Postal Address Correction Service

For your direct mail campaign to be really successful it’s important that you have an up-to-date database. That’s where our postal address correction service comes in.

We can clean up your database by:

• Merging lists, and identifying and removing duplicates addresses
• Enhancing postcodes and addresses using Royal Mail Post Code Address File (PAF)
• Identifying ‘gone-aways’ and deceased
• Cross-referencing addresses using the Mailing Preference Service UK (MPS)

Want to know more about our postal correction service? Contact us now

Targeted Mailing Services

Whether you need a small mailing service for 200 hand-assembled items or you have a complex mailing with 10,000 recipients, contact us for assistance. Our targeted direct mailing services include:

Machine enclosing

Our use of up-to-date technology means we can provide an extremely fast turnaround. Envelope sizes from DL (business size) to C4 (for an A4 sheet) can be accommodated and up to six items, such as brochures, letters and leaflets can be enclosed.

Manual enclosing, folding and labelling

Sometimes a mailing is such an unusual shape or size that it needs the personal touch. Our skilled mailing services team will carefully fold, pack and label to ensure your mailing arrives in pristine condition.

Envelope addressing

We can inkjet your addresses, postmarks, return addresses and even bar codes directly on to your envelopes and post cards. Or we can create laser printed address labels for those smaller mailings and odd shaped packages.

Because of the vast amount of mailings we do, we get great deals on envelopes, printing and postage – which we can pass on to you.

Want to talk about our targeted direct mailing services? Or have a last-minute rush job? No problem. Contact us now.

Microsoft rolled out its free Office Web Apps earlier this week, introducing a free, basic Office suite for the web. How does it compare to Google’s own Docs offering? Here’s a rundown of each webapp’s strengths and weaknesses.

Where Office Web Apps Excels

Yeah, yeah, that’s a pretty bad pun. But it’s actually the first descriptor that came to mind.

How Does Office Web Apps Compare to Google Docs?

Microsoft Office Compatibility

As you’d probably expect, when it comes to uploading a complex Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document to the web, and having it look the same there as it does on your desktop, Web Apps takes the cake. Until our little test, though, we didn’t realize by just how much.

We uploaded a few different Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files to both suites, and relied on our past experience with Docs. To show you the difference, here’s a heavily formatted corporate-style newsletter-pictures, sub-headings, margins, you name it. We opened it in TextEdit on a Mac, and placed it next to both Google Docs and Office Web Apps.

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Some 44% of Londoners have been victims of bank card fraud and 42% have had their identity stolen, according to an Infosecurity Europe survey.

Tidal Wave of Identity Theft sweeps the UK

Researchers said the average amount stolen was £1,448 per victim, and 37% did not get their money back from the bank. Those who lost smaller amounts were less likely to get their money back than those who lost larger amounts, the survey of 1,000 London commuters found. Most people (91%) who lost more than £5,000 were refunded, compared with only 41% of people who lost less than £100. Some 60% blamed retailers for making them vulnerable to fraud, while only 12% blamed the banks, and 28% said it was their own fault. More than a quarter (27%) said their details had been stolen through websites or e-mail, while a fifth said they lost their details during face-to-face transactions.

Being duped over the phone was the third most likely place to have details stolen with 15% of details being stolen this way. Other ways that details were taken included cashpoint machines, online banking and letters being intercepted in the post. Most of the affected (58%) were targeted in the UK, but 42% said the fraud happened to them while they were overseas.

More than half of respondents that were subject to fraud or ID theft said their credit rating was worse as a result, 37% said they had stopped online banking, and 34% said they had stopped shopping online.

Beautifully presented data always catches my eye and some of the infographics doing the rounds online at the moment are stunning.  Here are 9 of the best I have come across (look great and told me something new and interesting).

http://informationarchitects.jp/wtm4

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