The best way to send business parcels? Send for the Pro!
In today’s competitive parcel delivery market, there are many ways to send your business parcels. So which method is the most convenient, efficient, controllable, and cost-effective?
Traditionally businesses have sent out their regular mail and small parcels through a Royal Mail franking machine and their larger parcels via a courier. These have always been seen as the most cost-effective methods of sending letters and parcels. Whilst franked mail has always remained the most efficient and cost-effective way to send letters and smaller parcels, for many businesses, selecting the right courier partner providing trusted and competitive prices coupled with best-in-class service delivery levels has always been a challenging moving feast.
Changing your courier can often mean changing internal despatch processes, label printing systems and CRM interfaces and negotiating a suitable parcel collection time (the one everybody wants) with no guarantee that service levels or prices will be consistently optimised. We understand that getting parcels and mail collected and delivered on time, every time, is a business-critical process.
The difference between retaining customers or impressing new ones after they have been hard won by the sales teams makes a material impact on bottom line & business growth. In short, picking the right parcel partner is essential but can also be a real leap of faith.
In response to the burgeoning competitive and high-risk parcel market, Royal Mail have recently introduced Click & Drop, a multi-faceted parcel despatch solution which provides the sender with a choice of options by which to buy competitively-priced parcel postage and print a parcel label or download a QR code online via its website. Web-generated and self-printed parcel labels are affixed to parcels or a QR code used to despatch the parcel in one of four ways:
- Parcel Collect
Royal Mail will come and collect your parcel from your home or business. Collection via Parcel Collect is currently free. However, if you are a Royal Mail business customer with an Online Business Account, you do not qualify for free delivery when using Parcel Collect. - Post Box or Parcel Post Box
Parcels prepared via Click & Drop can be posted in any traditional Royal Mail Post Box or one of the new Royal Mail Parcel Post Boxes. One important thing to note, however, is that Tracked or Signed For services for your parcels cannot be sent this way. - Royal Mail Delivery Office
The pre-prepared parcel can be taken to your local Royal Mail Delivery Office to be sent. - Post Office
Alternatively, once your Click & Drop parcel is logged online and the label is printed or QR code received, the parcel can be taken to your local Post Office to be sent.
Click & Drop is undoubtedly a revolutionary step forward for Royal Mail in helping today’s consumer to send parcels in a convenient and cost-effective way. However, with charges for OBA holders for Parcel Collect and restrictions on what can be posted in a Post Box, going online to buy and print individual parcel labels and then taking parcels to the Post Office or Delivery Office may not be the most convenient, secure, and cost-effective way for you to run your business parcel despatch operations.
Couriers may be inconsistent and the use of multiple independent subcontractors in the delivery chain can make businesses worried about security. Click & Drop is largely considered best suited to consumer parcel sending. Royal Mail’s trusted brand and reliability make it a perfect partner for all your postal delivery requirements but where do you go for consistent, cost-effective and convenient parcel sending for your business?
We have modified a Postal Machine to accommodate the needs of business parcel sending which offers 3 main benefits: Convenience, Cost effectiveness, Trust.
Send for the Pro
The SendPro+ is the professional way for businesses to send their business parcels – a single solution that enables you to frank mail, buy accurate and competitive discounted parcel postage and print parcel shipping labels all via a single piece of equipment - No separate process for mail and parcels, no need to take your parcels to the Post Office or Royal Mail delivery office.
Our SendPro+ complete sending solution makes it easy to process domestic and international parcels & mail via Royal Mail and Parcelforce® Worldwide, all from one easy to use machine.
By integrating with the shipping label printer and the digital scale, the SendPro+ sending solution makes it easy to weigh your parcels, compare service options, print shipping labels, track parcels and manage expenses online — for both Royal Mail and Parcelforce, all in one place.
Historically sending parcels above 2kg via a franking machine has been expensive. But this has all changed with the SendPro+. Thanks to specially discounted preferential rates, with the SendPro+ you’ll save up to 78% on Parcelforce retail rates and take advantage of Royal Mail’s Delivery Confirmation service and preferential Mailmark™ mail pricing.
You don’t even have to have a Parcelforce account to send parcels via SendPro+ as payment is deducted from your franking postage account the same way as mail is deducted when you frank your post. Now that is convenient! Parcelforce shipping rates via your SendPro+ franking machine:
Parcelforce shipping rates via your SendPro+ franking machine:
- Pay through your franking machine postage account;
- No Parcelforce account necessary;
- Pre-calculated discounted contract rates up to 78%.
Now you can combine product solutions in one place and create real value for your business by choosing our enhanced Franking & Shipping solution SendPro+.
This means you can process your parcel despatch alongside your standard franked mail, including tracked and signed services, conveniently and cost-effectively in-house through your SendPro+ franking machine.
The future of mail and parcel sending is now available, just like it should have always been.
- Convenient
Integrated into your Franking Machine you already have access to a parcel delivery solution at your fingertips ready to go. - Cost effective
Pre-agreed wholesale pricing can be accessed through the franking machine user interface with shipping labels produced at the same time from the franking machine label printer. - Trusted
Published national tariffs from the UK’s leading provider of mail & parcel delivery options. You know where you are with your billing and can have peace of mind you are getting fantastic parcel pricing and a quality service delivery.
To view a video on the Sendpro+ franking machine and parcel shipping solution click here.
