who should I use to handle my mail./Donations please!

leiwolf · Post by **leiwolf** » 02 Apr 2008, 19:24

I am starting a charity group, I need to send nearly a few hundreds letters / leaflets. I was actually advise by a few people that because I am A) using my own money, and B) Its nowt to do with RM, to use a rival competitor to handle my mail. Now because I am an idiot and wants to be loyal I be using RM. So heres a question, would any of you use a rival firm to handle your mail if it was cheaper then your own firm? ps just a question

Would royal mail give a discount?

******Disclaimer Idiots managers Do not bother getting excited as I have not used anybody yet so go bother someone else

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 02 Apr 2008, 19:41

I don't think you would qualify for the volumes that DSA need nor do I think that RM give discount (although I did see something about Cleanmail but it requires volume)

jemima · Post by **jemima** » 02 Apr 2008, 19:58

I think there's a discount for posting more than 250 large letters if the addresses are machine readable.
But if it's for charity, why not ask? Send an email to "Ask Allan" and maybe he'll give you a discount? You never know....

madelin4 · Post by **madelin4** » 02 Apr 2008, 20:02

Use Royal Mail. We work hard and have done for lots of years.

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 02 Apr 2008, 20:25

I'd use the public service, always. I hate these two tossers :lfo :cfo but while this country has a viable publicly owned postal service, the
most one of them privateering w*****s would see, would be my backside, and then they could count themselves lucky.

alangate · Post by **alangate** » 03 Apr 2008, 00:33

madelin4 wrote:Use Royal Mail. We work hard and have done for lots of years.

Hey
After all we are the professionals eh

Darren Bent · Post by **Darren Bent** » 03 Apr 2008, 17:53

Ring the sales team as they might be able to come up with a suitable deal. If the worse happens just use 2nd class stamp. or ask fellow postmans in delivery office for left over from Christmas stamp and use it.

Post by **dvbuk55** » 03 Apr 2008, 19:25

Use whoever is cheapest. It's your money. If you buy something on line you wouldn't pay more for an item because they used RM instead of DHL or Fedex, well you might but I wouldn't.

I worked for an electricity board and got 25% discount on electrical appliances but even so they were still more expensive than some high street retailers. The stores ended up closing down BUT it wasn't because I didn't buy from them it was because they weren't competitive.

leiwolf · Post by **leiwolf** » 04 Apr 2008, 14:02

[quote="dvbuk55"]Use whoever is cheapest. It's your money. If you buy something on line you wouldn't pay more for an item because they used RM instead of DHL or Fedex, well you might but I wouldn't.

I worked for an electricity board and got 25% discount on electrical appliances but even so they were still more expensive than some high street retailers. The stores ended up closing down BUT it wasn't because I didn't buy from them it was because they weren't competitive.[/quote]

Thats quite a good point, however I think our biggest downfall can be led back to two things :lfo & :cfo (three things if you put managers into the equasions.)

Post by **POSTMAN** » 04 Apr 2008, 15:24

If you guys wannna send me Â£1.25 through my donations link which after charges will be about a quid i'll send the money on.

leiwolf i've got your PM if you want to elaborate more in this thread for the guys hopefully it could spur them on.
If we can raise a few quid then we can make it easier for you,you could be our RMC charity partner.

Post in here if you send money that way we can gauge how much is raised.

Thoughts.

I'll start the ball rolling with Â£5.00.
Make sure you put 'Charity' in the paypal comment box.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 04 Apr 2008, 16:41

I have matched the Â£5

Post by **POSTMAN** » 04 Apr 2008, 17:13

Nice one teebs,come on guys it's a quid!

leiwolf · Post by **leiwolf** » 04 Apr 2008, 20:25

First of all I would like to thank true blue and postman for their kindness

Just to make it clear, this is not an official charity but a charity support group. This is a new venture set up by me for people with neurological disabilities. Ie for people who are in the Neuro Diverse spectrum.

This Includes

Autism. Aspergus Syndrome. ADHD. Tourettes. Dyspraxia. Dycalicia. Dyslexia.

The Group is Lancashire, Adults, Neuro-Diverse Society. (or L.A.N.D.S for short.) It is developed from an early idea to have a lancashire adults dyspraxia support group.

To find out more about autism and such please click on these website

www.danda.org.uk --- London based orginisation deals with all aspect of ND

www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk --- Deals with dyspraxia only but mainly for kids and parents of said kids

www.colsal.org.uk/sites/daa/Homepage.asp --- Manchester based group

The reason why I have decided to start a lancashire based group are basically because the isn't many adult support group about, most support groups mainly deal with children and parents. The is defin not one in the lancashire region. So I felt that it A help me out and B be a good chance for people like me to meet.

I would like to see this group grow, I would like people to support, encourage and even have laugh with eachother. I also aim to try and educate employers and to help those with ND to work.

Any Financial help I could get would help me print out and deliver flyers altho what would be more useful if people clicks those links, find out and gain understanding, for those who know an adult like this inform he or she about this group.

Anyhow anyone wnats to know more please message me and I will send my infor, I will pass postman my email address to those that want to email.

Thanks

Post by **baldrick** » 05 Apr 2008, 09:21

Fiver from me too.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 08 Apr 2008, 18:31

Nice one baldrick.

We now have Â£15.00 enough to get 65 2nd class stamps.

Anymore for anymore.