Did you know ..... Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps, on 1 May 1840. That is why UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
FACTS & FIGURES
- The UK addressed mail market is worth around £6.6 billion (2007/08)1
- Volumes declined by around 2% on the previous year to 21.5 billion items (2007/08)1
- Business send about 87% of all mail in the UK licensed postal market, with the largest 500 companies accounting for 50% of all mail volumes1
- Of the 87%, about 60% goes from business to consumers (B2C); and about 27% from businesses to businesses (B2B)1
- Liberalisation of the postal market has created 3,300 new jobs and £229m of economic benefit3
- Access competition accounts for 21% of Royal Mail delivered volumes (2007/08), up from 11.8% in 2006/071
- This amounts to 4.09 billion items1
- The value of direct mail marketing expenditure to the UK economy is £8.6 billion3
- The value of sales generated as a result of direct mail in the UK is £17 billion3
Direct Mail Expenditure
- 2% of household waste can be accounted for by direct mail – equivalent to about a third of a Sunday newspaper per week4
- 4% of the UK’s total paper usage is used in direct mail4
- 95% of paper used in direct mail comes from recycled or managed sources4
1 Postcomm
2 Europe Economics Report – March 2007
3 DMA Economic Impact Analysis 2006
4 Confederation of Paper Industries
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