Reliability is also a factor.
I used to work through an Umbrella company some years ago. They sent out around 23,000 payslips each week. Then the postmen went on strike and and the system switched to email and has stayed so ever since. How many companies with large volumes of post have done so each time there is disruption or even the threat of it?
SteveW
I am amazed it can be worthwhile - but long may it continue for the benefit of the charities.
(We do collect them ourselves, despite the charity we once donated them to no longer taking them. So few stamps do we get that a small bowl in the kitchen is still not full after three years... Nor do we know what we will do in another few years when there are enough to send somewhere.)
Likewise the workplace kitchens where someone specifically collects plastic milk-bottle tops 'for charity'
What about Blue Peter appeals: one year it was keys - presumably for the scrap metal. Must have cost parents many times their value (if indeed they had any) in postage to send them in. (And I expect a lot of the keys were actually wanted.)
Write the address before you put the stamp on?
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