[Closed] alternatives to Royal Mail for A4 envelopes?

Have you tried googling "international document delivery"?

https://www.dhl.co.uk/en/express/export_services/export_day_definite.html#containerpar_productarticle

what sort of quantities at a time are you talking about? If you have X amount going to a certain country is there sense in sending a quantity pre-addressed in a box as one package and having someone post them in-country from there at the local rate? Companies like MallboxesEtc have branches all over and you could strike a deal for them to receive a bulk quantity from you then forward on

Have you tried googling “international document delivery”?

i hadnt, but i have now and still not having much joy. all links seem to lead to parcels, which cost even more.
ive tried a few quotes from DHL which always seem sky high, but that may be because i havent been able to choose an 80g A4 envelope.

what sort of quantities at a time are you talking about? If you have X amount going to a certain country is there sense in sending a quantity pre-addressed in a box as one package and having someone post them in-country from there at the local rate?

these would be certificates to successful graduates as and when they pass courses, so it would be a constant drip feed to different addresses worldwide.

thanks

these would be certificates to successful graduates as and when they pass courses,

presumably these are courses underaken by correspondence. Whats the purpose of the cert? Is it some sort of verifiable qualification? The last time I took a short online course the certificate was a PDF along with a verification code. Anyone that needs compelling proof I genuinely took the course and deserve the certification can use the code to verify it with the body that issued it

RM comes out at nearly a tenner a pop for tracked. looks like this cost may not make it viable.

other options are RM not tracked (£3.80) and take the hit on losses,

For a certificate the sender has issued - what's the loss if its lost? A stamp to send another one? Are they expensive to produce?  Tracking is no extra guard against the package getting lost its just protects you against the recipient defrauding you pretending not to have received a valuable item (or claiming not to have received something official like a court order).  But in your case the only thing the receipt can gain from that is two identical certificates.

Whats the purpose of the cert? Is it some sort of verifiable qualification?

yes, theyre certificates of graduation, for both online and in-class TEFL courses. theyre (digitally) signed embossed certificates.

For a certificate the sender has issued – what’s the loss if its lost? A stamp to send another one? Are they expensive to produce?

pretty minimal cost once all the printing set-up is er.... set up. so it may make sense for all certificates to be sent untracked and just re-send the (hopefully) few that miss their target.

thanks

https://www.dxdelivery.com

Royal Mail put up it large letter international pricing recently plus USPS put on a surcharge for delivering all international mail because if the Chinese government subsidising it. All this means we've changed to FeDex which is less, plus there is an option for next day US delivery for a bit more.
International post has also started becoming unreliable again like it was in the spring. DHL or FedEx has their own planes and customs clearance

All international RM costs went up at start of sept. The US increase, as far as I understand it, was predominantly on the US side rather than UK (hense the larger price increase than EU or world zone 2), the Universal Postal Union increased the price for delivering domestic post to the us mainland. Normally RM can only increase costs once a year, in April, but this one was out of their hands (also Brexit).

You could try processing through the RM website click and go, and drop items off at you local post office
https://send.royalmail.com/
This will work out cheaper, I think £2.90ish for a standard large letter, as you process the mail yourself.
Just make sure your items are within the large letter size guides and your scales are accurate, as items can be rejected for incorrect weight/cost if you go a gram over the weight boundaries.

To send a European standard letter, the cost went up by 3p, the US increase 7p. Just be thankful your not sending 1.9kg parcels, they went up by about £12 for standard post.

We (recruitment office of a university sending shitloads of A4/magazine sized things of moderate importance all around the world, used DHL. Wasn't the cheapest option but it also wasn't awful, and they were reliable, and their booking system was good which saved us tons of time.

Digital certificate is free.
Charge £50 for a hard copy.

Try P2P mailing they have been owned by FedEx last few years.