Royal Mail "PiP" - are you ready?

[10 Yetis]

I was going through a marketing magazine when I came across a leaflet from Royal Fail, sorry, Mail about the new PiP scheme

It stands for Pricing in Proportion... as we do a fair few Direct Marketing campaigns this could have a significant effect on budgets etc...

Thought that by posting this it may help other small companies prepare for any impact as it comes in on 1 Aug 2006.

For more info, go see http://www.royalmail.com/pip

Turns out us marketing companies will be ok though :D ... good old Royal Mail... they said the following:

"For the marketing, advertising and publishing industries, there has always been a need to balance creative ideas and costs. This is true whether they relate to size, shape, colour or any other aspect of a mailing piece. So Pricing in Proportion should present new opportunities for innovation in your mailings.

How? Well, the new classifications for mail have more generous weight allowances, so if you’ve got more to say, you’ll be able to add extra pages or items to make your mail stand out, or use a better paper stock to print on - without adding to the cost. For example, in the smallest category, letter, the maximum weight has been raised from 60g to 100g."

[MarkPearson]

Hi Andy,

Will be interesting, as royal mail are the most reasonably priced for sendount our our roses.

We use pre 1pm and pre 9am next day delivery, fom what I read, we dont seem to be affected.

[Robert]

This will make calculating shipping costs impossible.

[10 Yetis]

I think you can send off for something from Royal Mail that will help you to calculate the cost of the various weight/size packages.

Not sure if it is free though.

[ewan]

Shouldn't affect me too much, most of my packets are over 1kg, but the 25mm max height under 1kg could cause extra expense :(

[Kate]

thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning to check this out for at least a month!

we're going to end up paying more if we send out a single item and slightly less if we send out 2 together. Then it's onto parcel post anyway, so isn't impacted.

Guess we'll have to just start working that customer base even harder! Most of our return customers buy more than one activity pack, so at least we're heading in the right direction.

I'm fed up of standing in post office queues though :evil:

[weddingcrafter]

Its going to be a nightmare :evil:

We send out packs of all shapes and sizes from 20g to 2kg ........