If you send bulk mailings in volumes over 500 items at a time of the same class and size to UK addresses via a franking machine, you could benefit from substantial additional postage savings using Royal Mail’s Business Mail Advanced service.
Business Mail Advanced is a mail class from Royal Mail available for franking machine users that offers enhanced postal discounts in return for preparing your bulk mail according to certain criteria (see below) that enables Royal Mail’s automated technology to process your mail more efficiently.
Business Mail Advanced (BMA) discounts are based on the volume of post you send at a time.
As of 26th March 2018, the costs per item for sending a 2nd class letter to an address in the UK are:
Class / Volume | 500-999 | 1,000-2,499 | 2,500-9,999 | 10,000-24,999 | 25,000+ |
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Stamp | 58p | 58p | 58p | 58p | 58p |
Standard Frank | 44p | 44p | 44p | 44p | 44p |
Mailmark™ Frank | 39p | 39p | 39p | 39p | 39p |
BMA | 30.1p | 29.6p | 28.9p | 28.3p | 27.7p |
BMA is available to all franking machine users.
If you don’t already have one, you will need to set up an Online Business Account (OBA) with Royal Mail and then you will need to obtain a Business Mail Advanced licence to use BMA via your franking machine. We can do this for you.
Once you have your BMA licence, the BMA class can be downloaded to your franking machine and you’re ready to start saving on your bulk mailing!