Cheap post

Two letters which came to us yesterday via a company called Asendia (reference 1).

I had thought that it was all to do with exploiting cracks in the agreements between post offices for cross charging - cracks which meant that one could make money by routing mail through odd places like Hanoi - but maybe Asendia is just about handling your mail for you. You send them a file by email or whatever, and they turn it into letters in envelopes in the post. They have the printers and other machinery needed to do this sort of thing for less than it would cost you.

There might also be an angle in sending parcels of letters between Asendia hubs and only breaking the parcels down into individual letters when they near their destination.

Sucking good money out of the poor old Post Office? Death by a thousand cuts?

Reference 1: https://www.asendia.com/.