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Direct Mail 'can grow'
There is room for expansion in the direct mail market despite small and medium-sized businesses using the post less, according to the Royal Mail.
Speaking at a marketing and sales event in Bristol sponsored by the Royal Mail’s parent company Consignia, spokesman Richard Smith said people who dismissed the post as “snail mail” were out of touch.
E-mail officially overtakes traditional post in the popularity stakes
A study by Internet measurement company NetValue found 550 million e-mails were sent and received by UK homes in January – nearly 300 million more than the domestic amount handled by the Royal Mail.
Alki Manias, managing director of NetValue UK, said: “This is a real milestone for e-mail. Although only widely available to the public since 1995, the e-mail has surpassed hundreds of years of domestic Royal Mail services in a few years.
Reviewing Progress [Royal Mail]
Reviewing Progress [Royal Mail] by Gillian Wilmot, MD, Business & Consumer Markets, Royal Mail
Read MoreNow Consignia wants to use your home as a postal depot
Consignia, formerly the Post Office, has sent leaflets to thousands of private homes over the past few weeks asking for volunteers to let their houses be used as temporary delivery depots, or ‘safe drops’.
The scheme works like this: sacks of letters are left at the safe drop house by Royal Mail van drivers. When the postman has finished his first round, instead of going back to the depot, he collects another sack of post from the safe drop.
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