5 business post pet peeves and how to get rid of them
Many businesses have to send post. And often, sending it sucks. You know it, we know it.
Which is a shame, because here at Postworks, our customers love sending post. We know, it seems impossible.
Why do they love it? Because the usual business post problems, from stuffing envelopes to waiting for Royal Mail collections, have been taken out of their hands.
Here are five of the biggest pet peeves our customers faced in the past, and how sending letters online with Postworks helped get rid of them.
1. Spending hours preparing business post
“I spend hours a week queuing for printers and putting paper into envelopes, when I have way better things to do.”
The solution: send all your letters online in one go.
With Postworks, you can send business post in a few minutes, no matter how many letters you have.
Upload 1,000 letters together and watch them move through the process automatically. There is no printing, folding, envelope stuffing or queueing needed at your end.
You can do it from your desk in just a few minutes, then get back to the things that actually need your attention.
2. Expensive franking machine contracts and breakdowns
“Our franking machine has an expensive lease and a long contract. Plus, ink costs and breakdowns are an inconvenience.”
The solution: ditch the machine and try online franking.
Unless you count a laptop as machinery, Postworks means zero machinery, zero contracts and zero hours of downtime.
There is no franking machine lease to manage, no ink to replace and no equipment waiting to break down just as the post needs to leave.
By using Postworks, it can be cheaper even before your lease runs out. May we suggest using the old machine as a paperweight or display shelf once you are done with the thing?
3. Waiting around for Royal Mail collections
“Royal Mail is a hassle to deal with. If they pick our letters up, they are often late, and if we have to post them ourselves, there are long queues.”
The solution: clear cut-off times with the option to Fastrack™ items.
When you choose a plan, you will have a cut-off time that stays the same every day.
Upload your items and go and make a coffee. With Postworks, there is no need to wait around for a postie or make a last-minute trip to the post office.
If you miss your cut-off time, there is also an option to Fastrack™ your items until 4pm, meaning those urgent letters can still go out today.
4. The environmental impact of printing business post
“We want to be more environmentally friendly, but post uses so much paper and printers use lots of electricity.”
The solution: no paper required and no carbon used at your end.
With Postworks, you upload PDFs of your letters and we do the printing for you. There is no paper, printer or franking machine required at your end.
And you do not need to worry about the environmental impact of our paper and machinery. Postworks is a carbon neutral company, so any carbon we produce is offset.
It is a simpler way to manage sustainable business post without asking your team to print, pack and process every letter themselves.
5. Travelling to the office just to send post
“Since the pandemic, we have been working at home, but someone has had to come into the office every day to send out the post.”
The solution: send your post from the office or from home.
Postworks is purely digital, so it does not matter whether you are at home or working in the office.
In fact, you can send your post from anywhere in the world. We are a cloud based solution, so as long as you have a computer and an internet connection, you can use us.
Just log into our online HUB and post as you please.
Now you have seen how some of the biggest business post pet peeves can be dealt with, fancy a shake-up? Try Postworks, your one stop for all postal requirements. Never seal an envelope again.
To find out more and stop these pet peeves, call us on 0370 334 1516 or email success@postworks.co.uk. One of our postal experts will help get you up and running.
