Cleanmail® Advance
Available through your
franking machine.
If you produce at least 1,000 letters for delivery
within the UK and you can prepare your mail so Royal
Mail’s automated technology can read and verify the
address and postcode, you can obtain a discount from the
franking tariff price.
What discounts are available?
By effectively preparing your
mail you’ve helped Royal Mail to sort automatically and
so they offer
savings of up to 17.5% off standard mail costs.
Discounts are refunded either by cheque or as a credit
to a Royal Mail Account. A refund application is not
required.
What criteria must be met to
receive the discounts?
To benefit from up to the
17.5% Cleanmail Advance
discount
you must meet the following criteria:
• Letter dimensions including address location and clear
zones
• Apply a license number (normally applied when your
machine franks a letter)
• Post a minimum of 1000 items
• Complete a Customer Collection Receipt
• Present the letters in trays
Royal Mail sorting machines read the License number,
check the letter for address accuracy and allocate a
discount on an item basis for items automatically
sorted. Items failing to be automatically sorted are
priced as Account / Franked Meter Standard Tariff.
Mail Specification
for Cleanmail Advance
•
Letter dimensions
Minimum size is 145mm x 110mm. Maximum size is
240mm x 165mm
Minimum thickness is .25mm. Maximum thickness is
5mm
• Presentation
Royal Mail provides A4 trays and wheeled
containers
Letters must be separated in to 1st and 2nd Class
Letters must be presented upside down and facing
the front of the tray
Trays are placed in the wheeled containers
• Address Location and Format
Address must be machine printed in a defined area
of the letter
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) address
specification is recommended
• Clearzones
Royal Mail require certain areas of the mail
piece to have no markings (clearzones)
Royal Mail will print bar codes on each item in
these areas to assist the sorting process
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