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My colleagues on the postal mailing side at Hamilton House have looked at the indicative pricing from Royal Mail and they appear to be splitting bulk mail into two sectors, retail and advertising.

They have been trying to find out a little more about this, however details are vague and our rep has not had full information.  More details will be available mid March.

What we gather is that the advertising customer rate for bulk mail will increase by around 13% for first class and 5% for 2nd and mailsort postings.

The increase for retail bulk mail will be around 16% for first class, 10% for 2nd and 16% for mailsort postings.

There are no set details as to what qualifies as retail and what is advertising apart from the obvious, if you are sending out promotional literature then it advertising, if you are sending out a bank statement then it is retail.  But what happens if you put an advert in with the bank statement?

Tony Attwood