Consultants (advice, information and support services)

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  • Altus Post Ltd – www.altuspost.com - Provides mailing consultancy services in the United Kingdom, specialising in mailing solution design, lowering mail production and postage costs and providing address data management solutions. Aims to help companies lever the maximum cost reduction and service benefit from the opportunities offered by full postal market opening in the UK. 
  • BBS - www.bbsltd.co.uk - Provides independent advice and consultancy on postal discounts, sortation of data and routing of data for optimum postal discounts. BBS also offers consultancy on PAF and address management.
  • Condition 9 Ltd (company registration 5630453) - Postal consultancy specialising in all aspects of access to Royal Mail postal facilities. The company's managing director and senior consultant - Garry Carter, FCMA - worked for Royal Mail for 26 years in the regulatory and access arena. Condition 9 offers a range of advisory services relating to the postal market, including operational costing, access pricing and access contract negotiations. Contact: Garry Carter. Tel: 0794 1004279 or 01787 469537. Email: garryatcondition9@btinternet.com.
  • Courir - www.courir.co.uk - Offers fully independent consultancy expertise in the UK mails market, aiming to ensure that organisations benefit from the huge changes affecting the sector.
  • Creative Mail Solutions - www.creativemailsolutions.co.uk - Provides advice on mailing options and solutions. Aims to help businesses reduce postal costs and optimise the services they use.
  • D & S Consultants Ltd - Provides consultancy services in the following areas: postal services (regulatory, strategic, operational and development); environmental affairs (strategic and campaign development); ethical (best practice and compliance advice); public affairs (strategy and implementation); direct marketing (strategy, campaign development and planning); content provision (on and off line publications and conferences); HR and change management. Contact: David Robottom, director. Tel: 07768 511108. Email: davidrobottom@aol.com. 
  • Delamere Limited - Business development consultancy specialising in the direct mail, postal and business process outsourcing sectors. Recent projects for UK companies have delivered savings in the areas of print procurement, postage costs and the introduction of outsourcing partners. Contact: Bill Cockcroft. Email: info@delamerelimited.co.uk. 
  • DMPA Ltd - www.dmpa.co.uk - DMPA (Direct Marketing Production Agency) provides consultancy services for transactional and direct mail production from "data to the dorrmat". Services include data hygeine, PiP impact analysis, postal service evaluation audits and mail production reviews. 
  • Expense Reduction Analysts (ERA) - www.erauk.net - Specialises in value improvement solutions. By identifying the postal services most appropriate for any organisation, ERA is independent of all other mail services providers and promises a "no savings, no fee" approach. 
  • Frontier Mail - www.frontier-mail.co.uk - Independent postal advice service consultancy that aims to enable direct mailers to make the most of the cost benefits available in the liberalised postal market. Provides staff training, mail audits, up-to-date information and analysis of services and suppliers.  
  • ONEPOST - www.onepost.co.uk - Provides independent advice on postal services. Holds all routing and pricing details within one piece of software and aims to ensure customers optimise their postage budgets.
  • PCD - www.pcdagency.com - Founded in 1990, PCD is a full service agency producing direct mail campaigns for blue chip clients across all sectors. Our expertise ranges from brand development and direct mail to media inserts and response advertising.
  • peoplepost Ltd - www.peoplepost.co.uk - Provides training to licensed postal operators and supplier/advisors to the postal industry. Courses include: Introduction to the UK postal industry; The UK postal regulatory environment; Postal customers and markets; and Postal operations and security. We also offer consultancy and advice on postal strategy, finance, marketing and operations. Contact David McBride. Tel: 0845 686 6245. Email: info@peoplepost.co.uk.
  • Post-Switch - Monitors the postal rates of all Royal Mail's competitors and advises on potential discounts with alternative operators. Post-Switch will negotiate a preferential discount for customers' mailings, manage operational changes and provide an on-line track and trace window. Contact: info@post-switch.co.uk. 
  • Postal and Logistics Consulting Worldwide (PLCWW) - www.plcww.com - Advises mail users on the most cost-effective posting options available to them from all postal operators, inlcuding new entrants to the market. 
  • PostalAudits - www.postalaudits.com - Provides detailed, independent audits of postal expenditure and services, benchmarking, market comparisons and benefits delivery. Established for six years, PostalAudits provides audit and consultancy services to clients in a variety of market sectors. 
  • Postal Discount Services (PDS) - PDS is a postal consultancy located in Mayfair, London. PDS uses all available mail providers to offer a discounted solution to customers whilst taking care of the postal routing. PDS offers international and domestic consultancy. Contact Chris Finch, Senior Consultant on: Telephone 0207 693 5505 or Fax 0207 693 5056.
  • PostalMetrics Ltd - www.postalmetrics.com - Part of the PostalAudits Group specialising in independent quality of service measurement, online mail media planning and auditing. Services include independent, statistically robust end-to-end monitoring of postal services from mailing house to doormat. 
  • Postal Cost Management Ltd - Based in Northern Ireland, Postal Cost Management specialises in helping organisations make cost savings in the competitive mail market. The company's primary focus is on helping customers drive up profitability and efficiency through improved mail management and direct marketing investment. Contact Jimmy Scullion, director, Tel: 07894 246498, Email: jimmy.scullion@pcmdirect.co.uk
  • Spiral Strategic Solutions Ltd - An independent consultancy providing strategic advice to help organisations realise the commercial opportunities available in the liberalised UK mail market. For mail users, Spiral offers advice on strategic positioning, postal savings and wider business benefits. Mail operators and mail industry suppliers can benefit from strategic advice supporting the development of strategic plans and business models. Contact: Andrew Starkey, managing director. Tel: 07952 813622. Email: spiralstrategies@aol.com.
  • Triangle Management Services Ltd - www.triangle.eu.com - Established in 1984 to provide independent specialist services to the mail, express, freight and logistics industries. Triangle specialises in: management consultancy; market research services (bespoke and syndicated/published research); recruitment; mergers and acquisitions; alliance and joint ventures (conferences and exhibitions), and publishing (publications and online services).  

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