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Royal Mail Door to Door Distribution Update Royal Mail Door to Door has released its booking dates for door drop distribution, which can be placed via The Letterbox Consultancy. Standard door to door bookings can be made for week commencing 9th September, with confirmation required by next Friday. Your leaflets/door to door items would need ... Read more
ROYAL MAIL DOOR TO DOOR – BOOKING A CAMPAIGN If you are planning a leaflet distribution and you’re interested in using Royal Mail for the delivery, we can help guide you through the process. Royal Mail Door to Door is a division of the Royal Mail business and by using this service, you will benefit ... Read more
Annual DMA Door Drop Report – 2024 The DMA Annual Door Drop report has been released for 2024. This reviews annual volumes, spend and engagement trends for door drop across the year of 2023. 2023 volumes have shown a 14% decline, with spend down by a similar amount, though the number of advertisers using the ... Read more
Royal Mail Door to Door Price Increase Royal Mail have announced a price increase for their door to door service. This will take effect on bookings made after 4th October, meaning that door drop distribution bookings from w/c 28th October will be charged at the higher price, if you have not booked by the 4th. ... Read more
DMA – ANNUAL DOOR DROP REPORT The DMA have published their annual door drop report, again in partnership with JICMAIL – if you would like to receive a copy please email us. The report is packed with the latest performance metrics and key data surrounding the industry such as spend and volume. Focusing just on ... Read more
ROYAL MAIL INDUSTRIAL ACTION – AN UPDATE Following on from Royal Mail industrial action in 2022, we have yet to see any dates for strike action announced in 2023, though the dispute is ongoing. Royal Mail’s statement reads: “We are disappointed that the CWU members who took part in the ballot have voted in favour ... Read more
2022 DOOR DROP VOLUME REPORT 2022 was generally predicted to be a tough year for many and volume predictions for the door drop industry were gloomy in some quarters. The DMA’s 2021 door drop volume report suggested a weekly average of 2.42 items had been received by UK letterboxes, whilst TLC’s volume monitor suggested an ... Read more
ROYAL MAIL DOOR TO DOOR – PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH! What better demonstration of your faith in the door drop channel, than to use it to promote your own business? In recent months, we have seen Royal Mail Door to Door delivering leaflets that promote Royal Mail services; including the new parcel collection service and ... Read more
DOOR DROP VOLUMES Two thirds of the way through the year, seems a reasonable time to review 2022 door drop volumes and general usage. We all entered the year surrounded by uncertainty over the continuing effects of Covid and the ramifications for businesses across the land and whilst Covid is sadly still an issue, the ... Read more
UK HEATWAVE – WHAT EFFECT ON DOOR DROP? Today and tomorrow ill see some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the UK. With door drop distribution carried out by individuals walking along UK streets, it’s reasonable to ask what will happen for those who have Royal Mail Door to Door or Team (Solus and ... Read more
THE COMPANIES CHOOSING DOOR DROP IN 2022 We’re just at the midway point of 2022 and as we’ve seen recently with the launch of the DMA Door Drop Annual Report, door to door volumes are on the rise. So who are the clients driving this rise? As ever, door drop is a channel that serves ... Read more
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE POSITIVES The DMA have recently released the annual Door Drop report, which whilst titled 2022, reflects the medium’s fortunes in 2021. The historical format has been shaken up to include valuable JICMail data, which ultimately makes the report so much more valuable. You can read the full report for yourselves here ... Read more
THE YEAR TO DATE In the first few months of the year, our trading performance has been very encouraging and in line with the much publicised general growth in the use of door drops as part of the marketing mix. Both the number of clients who have used our services and the overall number of ... Read more
TESTING? AN UNDER USED SKILL OF DOOR DROPS? A recent blog discussing the importance of factoring in door drop duration periods when planning campaigns (read here), provoked an interesting comment about testing. The comment was really about testing in direct mail – copy, response mechanisms, timescales etc – but it made me think nevertheless. On ... Read more
HOW LONG WILL MY DOOR DROP TAKE TO COMPLETE? If your door drop activity is time sensitive, how do you gauge the length of time it may take to deliver your door drop items? There are only two nationwide final mile distribution options, Royal Mail door to door and teams. Royal Mail D2D has a ... Read more
DOOR DROP VOLUMES SURGE IN Q4 2021 The recently released JICMail Q4 2021 mail data update, contained powerful statistics for the door drop medium. In TLC’s opinion, the chart below is quite possibly the stand out element of the entire presentation. Virtually all industry sectors have been responsible for the above average growth rate in ... Read more