Case Study: Balfour Beatty

£12,000 saving for Balfour Beatty (2018) by using ETHICAL.
Balfour Beatty Living Places asked ETHICAL to provide a mail fulfilment service to help save costs when compared with internal fulfilment.

In 2018, they saved £12000 by moving their internal mail fulfilment process to ETHICAL and in 2019, have saved £5000 since April to date (June 2019)

We helped them save costs across a range of metrics, including:

• Postage
• Lithograph printing
• Envelope fulfilment
• Materials
• Administration time

Cost savings scaled with the size of each individual mailing. The graph below compares the costs of internal mail fulfilment (including discounted postage rates) with the costs of using ETHICAL. It shows the financial savings based on mailings of different sizes, with mailings of 10,000 units saving £4000 when using ETHICAL. We become cost-effective from as few as 100 units:

The graph is for double-sided generic letters printed on A4 paper using lithographic printing stuffed into a C5 envelope. Calculated costs include materials, print costs, postage costs, mail fulfilment, and administration time.

We help our customers save costs in numerous ways. For example, we use our Royal Mail Business Account to consolidate multiple mailings from different customers to receive volume discounts much greater than internal discounted post.

 

“So far this year you’ve saved us £5000. 90% of the savings are passed onto our client and this has made us competitive. They keep giving us more work so it’s win-win.”

- Wilson Massie, Stakeholder Engagement | Balfour Beatty Living Places