Christmas, when you run your own business, means one thing - long post office queues, audible sighs and tutting from the growing line of people waiting behind you and a wasted hour of your day! I have mumbled on about this before!
When you start to get piles of parcels that amount to few bags every day - things have to change - and change they did, when one day I received a phone call from Royal Mail, who noticed we were obviously posting out a lot of parcels.
We received a home visit from our Royal Mail area manager who talked us through our options and signed us up to a new online business postal system. We weigh the parcels we send out in total and divide by the number of parcels we send.
A few calculations and numbers typed into the computer later and we are good to go.....
.....straight to the sorting office in the morning.
No queues, no waiting, no tutting - just a cheery thank you at 8.30 in the morning and the days postal duties done!
I highly recommend it!
5 comments:
hurrah!...and no rushing round, no bundles being carried back and forth to the car and best of all no guilt about the waiting masses behind you! ha!
How fabulous!! ;o)
hugs
hello gorgeous xxx
Wonderful! What a way to run an online business ;o)
We didn't manage the coffee this year, but hopefully 2011 will give us a little breathing space - long enough for a quick hello at any rate!
Sx
Oh how brilliant that must be. I struggled to the post office with a 9kg box yesterday, queued for 20 mins then their scales couldn't weigh it because they are jammed into a corner so I had to carry it to another post office and queue there again! I hate those tutting customers too.
WOW! now this I would love to do, maybe next year coss fingers and toes when sales double again! Kxx
awesome!
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