Royal Mail's Sustainable Mail™
Sustainable Mail™ is a group of products that the Royal Mail is offering with the objective of reducing the environmental impact of mail and ensuring its sustainability in the future.
Their Sustainable Mail™ products will help clients increase the use of environmentally-friendly materials, while reducing the amount of mail in the waste stream.
From April 2009, Mailsort® 120 and 700 and Mailsort® 1400 will be the first Royal Mail products to offer a sustainable option.
Royal Mail Wholesale Responsible Mail™
Responsible Mail™ is a Royal Mail Wholesale (RMW) service that provides customers with the opportunity to benefit from lower prices by posting environmentally friendly direct mail. The service is an "add-on" option for existing RMW Letter and Large Letter services and is for direct mail only, that is "addressed mail items comprising a largely uniform message with the purpose of promoting the sale or use of products or services or to encourage contribution to or support of a cause". There are two levels of Responsible Mail™, Entry and Intermediate. A full specification for each can be found at www.royalmailwholesale.com/responsiblemail.
Carbon Neutral Door to Door
This scheme aims to minimise the environmental impact of the Royal Mail Door to Door service for the delivery of unaddressed items. To encourage clients to join this scheme, the Royal Mail will help clients to make their mailings more environmentally friendly. Once this has been achieved, the Royal Mail will pay to offset any remaining carbon produced by the client mailing. Clients will be able to use our logo to show their customers that their mailing is carbon neutral