Have used the Direct Mail Company for our annual brochure send for the last 2 years. Efficient communication throughout, collection happened as planned and delivered to our audience in the time frame requested. Will be using again next year,
Bulk Postage Rates for Bulk Mailings and One Off Sends
We are a leading UK bulk postage provider and a cost-effective alternative to standard Royal Mail bulk services. By using our downstream access model, many clients save up to 37% on bulk postage costs without compromising delivery quality.
We collect your mail directly from you, process and sort it at our regional depots, and then hand it over to Royal Mail for final-mile delivery. This streamlined approach reduces costs while maintaining the reliability and coverage of Royal Mail’s network.
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Reduce your bulk mailing costs by up to 37% through our streamlined postal process. We handle collection and sorting at our depots before passing items into Royal Mail’s delivery network, helping you achieve substantial savings while maintaining dependable service.
Discounted Bulk Postage Rates
Because we dispatch very high volumes of print and mail each year through our mailing facilities, we are able to secure some of the lowest bulk postage rates available in the UK.
We were also among the first to offer bulk postage services to regular clients running one-off mass mailings. This service was developed in response to common frustrations around manually stamping or franking large quantities of letters, providing a faster, more efficient alternative for high-volume campaigns.
Saving You Time and Money
Bulk postage prices for letters, large letters, packets, and parcels are higher than ever, with costs increasing steadily over time. Sending large volumes through a Post Office using stamps or franking has become increasingly expensive for businesses. Our service offers a more cost-effective alternative by operating as a pre-sortation centre, allowing us to access discounted bulk postage rates.
Instead of stamping, franking, or transporting mail yourself, we can arrange courier collection directly from your premises, often within the same day. Your mail is returned to our mailing house, professionally prepared and pre-sorted, and then passed into Royal Mail’s network for delivery.
By completing the pre-sortation process in advance, we ensure mail is ready to enter local delivery offices without delay. This efficiency is rewarded with reduced postage costs, which we pass on to our clients while covering our operational costs. The result is a lower overall mailing cost than you would typically achieve through traditional postage methods.
This approach enables us to offer rates that are more competitive than franking machines or standard stamps, making bulk mailing more accessible and affordable. Our services are suitable not only for large businesses but also for any organisation sending 250 items or more in a single campaign. With fast collection, streamlined processing, and reliable delivery, the process is simple, efficient, and designed to save you both time and money.
Key Information
If you currently frank your mail, we guarantee it will be cheaper with our bulk postage services.
We can arrange a courier collection from your business—daily or weekly (500 minimum quantity for each collection)—so you can take advantage of our cheap postage rates. Unsorted volumes (below 4000 in one mailing) start at as little as £0.30, depending on the type of mailing. We also offer one-off collections if you have over 500 letters, packets, or parcels to post in one bulk mailing.
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For volumes over 4,000, we can pre-sort your data to take advantage of sorted bulk mail mass postage rates.
This is simply us doing the mail sortation for Royal Mail, so due to them completing less work in sending the mail, we can pass the discounts to you.
If you are currently franking or using stamps, it is much more cost-effective to send your bulk mail via The Direct Mail Company.
We can also offer expedited delivery via our partner, Parcel 2 Go. Call 0330 818 2404 today for pricing and to book a bulk mail postage collection.
95% of our portal customers who contact us about our bulk postage rates find that it is more cost-effective for us to complete the whole fulfilment (printing, enclosing and postage), rather than frank their mail in-house.
For example, an A4 letter enclosed in a C5 envelope, posted on a 2-3 day service, starts from just £0.34 per letter, depending on the postage discounts we can give you for sending sorted mail.
We take the stress out of sending direct mail. All we require from you is the data and artwork, and we will do the rest whilst keeping you informed at every step.
Even when sending bulk mailings, we make it simple – we book a collection on an agreed day and collect your mail like a courier company would a parcel. Your post then goes back to your closest sorting depot for distribution into the postal system, with Royal Mail always completing the final mile.
Many of our bulk mail clients find us simply searching online for cheap Royal Mail letter postage costs as they are sending high volumes of mail. Saving just a few pence on bulk mail can save you significant money. Our UK bulk postal costs are available for standard letters, large letters 0-100g, 101-250g and 251g+, packets and parcels. We also offer the cheapest international postage rates with a massive 90% of the world coverage.
We undoubtedly are cheaper than Royal Mail and many other providers due to the high volumes of mailshots that we send each year from our mailing house. Contact us on 0330 818 2404 or use the form below to get a quick quotation for cheap postage.
Here are Royal Mail’s latest postage rates to compare to our bulk postage rates. As you will see, using The Direct Mail Company will get you a much better rate on large-scale deliveries. So when you get a quote from us, you can compare the cost of postage with us and then Royal Mail to make sure that you are getting a cheaper rate. Below are the latest prices for their most popular delivery services.
Royal Mail postage costs
| Royal Mail UK Delivery | Cost |
|---|---|
| 1st class letter | 95p |
| 1st class letter signed for | £2.35 |
| 2nd class letter | 68p |
| 2nd class letter signed for | £2.08 |
| 1st class parcel | £3.95 |
| 1st class parcel tracked 24 | £3.95 |
| 2nd class parcel | £2.85 |
| 2nd class parcel tracked 48 | £2.85 |
We provide a range of bulk postage rates and can fulfil all or part of your mailing.
This means you can get on with your regular job and leave the technical bits and the time-consuming work to us.
We provide direct mail fulfilment services from our Wakefield-based, internal print and mailing house,, using the latest machinery and technology to ensure a seamless direct mail service. If you are looking for inspiration for a mailing campaign, look at our recent blog on what is a mailshot.
Our success is simply down to providing fantastic service, delivering our clients’ mail on time, and offering the cheapest postal costs in the UK.
We provide a wide range of postage solutions for eBay and Amazon sellers, of which we have competitive postage costs for any online seller. By using us for your cheap postage costs from our mail house, you can get excellent service and timely deliveries. We also provide them with discounts on mailshots and leaflet distribution as an existing client.
Call us today on 0330 818 2404 to enquire about bulk mail and bulk postage rates, or contact us online.
To take advantage of some of the UK’s cheapest postage rates, please fill in your details below, and one of our team will call you. If you would like further information or are unsure how much you will save on postage compared to Royal Mail.
We can offer the same post services as Royal Mail for large letters, packets and parcels. You can use our postage rates for both UK and International mail. We also offer complete fulfilment if you want to outsource your direct mail.
If you regularly send out bulk postage, the cheapest way to do so is by owning a franking machine. If a business sends over 100 letters per week, a franking machine can save you money. However, many businesses do not want to do this or invest in a franking machine, so they pay for other companies like us to do it for them.
The maximum letter size for Royal Mail standard post in the Uk is C5 which has dimensions of 229mm x 162mm. Any larger than this and it will be classed as a parcel. Your envelope also needs to weigh less than 100g and be under 5mm thick to be accepted as a large letter.
Reviews from Our Customers
You can tell a lot about a direct mail house by their previous clients. We are quite proud of ours, to say the least. The world’s biggest brands use our direct mail services.
PH Sports
I worked with Katy to produce a client brochure and am very happy with the overall service. There was a bit of back and forth from our side whilst we were awaiting approval, and Katy was very patient with us, providing all of the information we needed. We’re very happy with the finished result and are looking forward to working together again.
Pure Agency
I highly recommend using The Direct Mail Company for your mail drop needs. I have used their services for my job twice now and have had a smooth experience from start to finish. Katy is always helpful and quick to respond to any query.
Highly recommend – Katy was brilliant. We had a few problems along the way on our end getting our project together, and she was so helpful and patient, and sorted everything perfectly. Thank you so much!
Katy Robinson has been a great help. From quote stage providing advice on format, adjusting quotes for pagination and quantity. To production, keeping us informed on timings and delivery. The print is excellent and we were really pleased with final product. Having produced a LOT of brochures in my time I feel like everything right down to trim was well done. Thank you Direct Mail Company.
The company gave me a competitive quote, picked up the mail and sent it that same day. Would use again.
Quick turnaround from start to finish. We had 5,000 addressed mail printed and delivered to our customers and they had all received one that same week! Great service and will be using again!
After a successful first campaign we have just booked in our second canvassing campaign with The Direct Mail Company. Katy has been a great help in both instances and we look forward to seeing further results.
We used The Direct Mail Company for our church Christmas invitations and they were exceptional. Handled everything from printing to distribution and followed up with really helpful data. Katie helped us and was professional and easy to work with. We will use them again in the future.
Why choose our bulk postage services?
Here at The Direct Mail Company, we are committed to making it as easy as possible for our clients to send bulk letters and parcels.
Fast Delivery
Everything we print and post is quality controlled to ensure that mail leaves us as expected, with 98% of mailings leaving us on time.
Discounted Rates
We work with the biggest and best postal providers in the UK and Internationally, so you can be sure that we will get you the best postage prices.
Experienced Team
We have built up a creative, driven, and passionate team. We are results-driven to get you the highest return on investment possible from your mailing.
Full In-House Service
From printing and packaging to mailing and fulfilment, we handle it all under one roof. Our end-to-end mailing solutions ensure a seamless process, saving you time, reducing costs, and delivering results.
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