[O/T] Need to choose an envelope that gets attention

David R ( snipped-for-privacy@mail.invalid) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I reckon you need to get a life.

The people who action your letters won't even see the envelope - they'll have been opened, read and sorted by the postroom.

Why not just get some pre-paid envelopes from the Royal Mail.

Scoob

White DL window self-seal, judging by the number of boxes of the dammed things I used to have to shift, I doubt things have changed that much since.

Buy from a reputable source as self seal 'gum' can go off in time, you then either have to scrap them or use sticky tape to seal them !

LOL, are you serious?

I reckon you should get some Noddy envelopes:

Don't you think that looks like it is trying to impress? Like something from an advertising agency rather than something which is inherently important?

I can see my efforts would be wasted in you were the recipient. And that is a valid bit of feedback.

In the larger companies where I have worked, the mailroom gets thousands of letters each day and they would simply forward mail to the addressee to open.

However my solicitor's medium-sized practise works in exactly the way you mention.

Maybe my attempts to get noticed works best when my letter is sent to a private individual.

A Hand Written Letter Always Gets My Notice. Baz

I found this Royal Mail page

Who in their right mind would want to help someone spam the world with even more crummy junk mail?

The envelopes which get my attention are big red uninvitd ones that say "Please let me rip you off and take up your time with some devious s**te."

Hope this helps.

PS, you are in the wrong group.

I tend not to write to nursery schools so this sort of thing

I should have added top flap and not end, IYSWIM

I receive hundreds of items of marketing literature a week. I don't give a toss what kind of envelope it's in. It all goes in the bin.

Send them by recorded delivery. It may cost a bit more (65p?) but it certainly gets them noticed.

Robert

Ricky, I think you might misunderstand. I am not intending to send junk mail. In fact quite the opposite.

I want to send my letters very directly to a given person and usually in rsponse to some correspondence we might have had up until then. I want them to notice my mail from all the junk mail and "less important" mail they may get at the same time.

I tend to throw those uninvited ones straight in the bin. Th ebright gaudy stuff tell me the sender is trying too hard and is probably trying to sell me something I don't want.

I chose UK groups where readers were consumers and therefore likely to get more or less a similar sort of mail as I do.

alt.consumers.uk-discounts.and.bargains uk.people.consumers uk.d-i-y uk.rec.cars.misc

There were more candidiate groups but I stuck by GKNSA and limited myself to 4. I made sure [O/T] appeared in the subject line and for prominence I put it at the beginning.

Is it not about time RM concentrated on doing the job correctly which we pay them to do ? . I posted a small package to a friend in South Wales on Friday and it was delivered in double quick time for RM Saturday BUT the bloody lazy idol postman because the package was to big to go through the letter box just left it on the door step for the world and his brother to nick . It was when she was going out at 3.30 in the afternoon that she found it the bloody lazy idol postman could not even be bothered to put a card through the door or take it back to the delivery office or even knock on my friend door . I found out when I rang the Del office manager yesterday that the man lived somewhere near my friend so I presume he went stright home after leaving the package on the door step bloody useless is Royal Mail.

David R ( snipped-for-privacy@mail.invalid) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

It'd get my attention... That's the best you can hope from paper. It's the contents that will (or won't) impress.

So 8.5p for an envelope then. Were you expecting them for free?

AstraVanMan ( snipped-for-privacy@SwerveForeskinWeb.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Compared to £2.24 for 50 from Staples - still "a bit pricey". But you're paying for convenience.