Royal Mail have reviewed the scheme to compensate those who send bulk mail and are not satisfied with the quality of service delivery targets.

These new terms and conditions apply from April 2010.

For full details please see our news

Thank you for all your support this year!

We wish you a fantastic Christmas and a happy New Years from all of us here at Uni-Mail

We will be returning to the office on the 4th of January so if you send us an email we will pick it up on our return.

Uni-Mails plans to run completely on renewable energy has had a spanner (or a helicopter!) thrown in the works!

With R.A.F. Benson a stones throw away, the M.O.D. feel that to have a wind turbine on site will interfere too much with their radar!

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Any comments would be much appreciated

We have already mentioned some of the things we have done here to try to reduce our carbon footprint. Well, according to our own calculations we are pleased to say that we are now CARBON NEGATIVE !

Sarah and Tony have planted over 2000 native trees on two and a half hectares of land which, according to figures supplied by The Woodland Trust, is enough to offset 800% of the atmospheric CO2 that their business produces.

You can estimate your carbon footprint on several sites including Carbon Neutral and if you are interested in the concept of tree planting one place you could check out is The Woodland Trust

In addition to this, it is also great news that Aidan took part in Tree O’Clock at the weekend! His group planted 402 native trees in 1 hour! Tree O’Clock is the time when (BBC) Breathing Places will be attempting to break 2 world records for the number of trees planted in one hour. This Friday will show the results, so we will keep you updated when all the counts are in.

We wondered how many of you are thinking about this? Please do let us know.

After the Christmas break Kerry Bear will be leaving us! Not forever, just for 2 months while we all enjoy a well deserved break whilst she is in beautiful Australia. We’re currently interviewing for her temporary replacement so don’t worry, your mailings won’t be affected!

As you would have noticed from our news page the Royal Mail will be introducing a Green postage discount system from the 1st April 2009 called Sustainable Mail(TM). We love the idea of going green, after all we pride ourselves in being a s green as we can. Sourcing from sustainable sources, using old overs stock for office printing, working out of recycled buildings! etc, etc. But I can’t help but think this may be to good to be true. Will the postage discount cover the extra cost for sustainable materials? how long will it be until recycled paper is no longer seen as the solution? Perhaps FSC will have something to say about it??

Of course this can only be a good thing encouraging posters to use green materials is a common goal we must all follow. It will be the only way our industry can go forward in these unprecendented times. However could there have been a better, more long term solution introduced?

Let us know your views.

It has come to my attention over recent weeks and months that company after company are going bust in the print and Direct mail industry. Of course it’s the global recession that’s to blame for this terrible state of affairs. And I really do feel for the people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. However it seems that well run smaller businesses are managing to ride out the storm. By not letting themselves get dragged into technology wars and over spending on the latest colour printers or enclosing machines; tying up vital capital. These companies should be applauded for their prudence by making sure there is still an industry to come through the other side of this terrible melt down.

So don’t let things in the papers get you down there are small business out there keeping their ends up! See you on the other side!!

This is our new website and our first blog! We added this blog so we could start talking with our customers, suppliers and generally anyone else who has an interest in the direct mail industry. So don’t be shy get in touch with us and lets start blogging!