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# Thursday, 15 December 2011

The last guaranteed posting dates for UK mail are fast approaching. Customers should post any Second Class UK mail before close of business on Friday the 16th of December to ensure it leaves us before the last Royal Mail posting of Saturday the 17th of December. First Class mail should be posted by Tuesday the 20th of December in order to be delivered in time for Christmas. PC2Paper will continue to process all mail posted after these dates but Christmas delivery cannot be guaranteed.

posted on Thursday, 15 December 2011 07:15:00 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Trackback
# Thursday, 24 November 2011

We have now added the Recorded Delivery and Special Delivery options back on the website. It was necessary for us to remove these temporarily due to a problem with our online postage provider Royal Mail which meant we could not process these options. This has now been resolved.

posted on Thursday, 24 November 2011 13:52:36 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Trackback
# Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Our US printing station will be closed on Thursday the 24th and Friday the 25th of November for the Thanksgiving holiday. During this time we will continue to pass all US mail to our printing station for posting, however, customers should be aware that no mail will actually leave the printing station on these days. Normal service will be resumed on Monday the 28th of November.

posted on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 18:19:00 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Trackback
# Monday, 21 November 2011

It has been necessary to temporarily remove the Recorded and Special Delivery options from our website. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause, this is due to a problem with our external postage provider. We will reinstate these services as soon as it is possible to do so.

posted on Monday, 21 November 2011 13:14:33 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Trackback

For almost a year now PC2Paper have had an iPhone and iPad friendly version of our site. We haven't talked about it much except in our chat forum where we were trying to get people to test out the beta version of this site. The users that have tested it have also discovered that the site works quite well with other mobile devices such as Android and the mobile version of the Opera browser.

The site is limited to a small subsection of functionality and this is primarily writing letters and viewing saved, waiting to be sent and sent letters. We did this primarily as we didn't know how the micro site would be perceived and planned on adding more functionality gradually as it gained in popularity.

Why haven't you developed an iPhone/iPad app yet?

We have been asked this on several occasions, we have had several companies offer to develop us one and we have also had a version of an app sitting on one of our development machines. Developing an iPhone/iPad friendly website is a lot easier than developing an app. A website is also a lot easier to support than an app that sits on the iPhone or iPad. We also know there is a definite benefit to having an iPhone and iPad app, one of these would be the ability to write your letters offline and then sync the iPhone or iPad back with your PC2Paper account when your device was back online. In order to do this we would need to cache a lot of data on the device itself such postage costs, letters and account details and make sure this is all synchronised with your account when you are back online. To do this we would also have to build the infrastructure on our website to support this kind of functionality. When you look at it this way you can see all the bits that would have to make up our application.

In short we wouldn't want to release an app just for the sake of releasing one that gave a pretty poor experience and a very small section of functionality that just didn't provide any more benefit than what a web friendly version of our site for your phone would do.

Going forward

We would welcome any feedback on the mobile version of our site. This should help us to add more functionality which is of benefit to you when constantly on the move.

posted on Monday, 21 November 2011 12:25:27 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Trackback
# Thursday, 17 November 2011

The last recommended posting dates for Christmas are fast approaching for some destinations. The last posting dates for International Airmail are as follows:

Mail for South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia and New Zealand should be posted by Monday 5th of December.

Mail for Eastern Europe, the USA and Canada should be posted by Friday 9th of December.

Mail for Western Europe should be posted by Monday 12th of December.

 

Customers should also be aware of the last UK posting dates as follows:

Sat 17th December for Second Class and Recorded Signed For

Tue 20th December for First Class and Recorded Signed For

Thu 22nd December Special Delivery

posted on Thursday, 17 November 2011 13:53:54 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Trackback
# Thursday, 20 October 2011

We have recently received a number of requests from customers who would like to add a default sender address to their letters rather than having to type this in every time. PC2paper customers can now do this from within their account settings. You just need to log in and select the "My Details" tab from within your account. You should now see a default sender address option which you can populate with the address of your choice. This address will now appear as default in the sender address box every time you write a letter.

posted on Thursday, 20 October 2011 21:28:10 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback
# Thursday, 29 September 2011

PC2Paper have recently launched a Priority Mail service for US mail. The service will be offered alongside the existing Certified Mail service. We have taken the decision to add the Priority Mail service because it not only offers a faster delivery option than Certified Mail which is sent via 1st class mail, it also offers a better form of tracking your mail. As always the service is dependant on the delivery conditions in the local delivery area but we would normally expect Priority Mail to be delivered within 1-2 working days of being passed to our overseas printing partner. You can find this service available from the extras menu when you are sending a letter from the USA printing station. We welcome any feedback from customers on what they think of the service.

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# Monday, 12 September 2011

Some areas of the UK have been experiencing high winds and flooding caused by the tail end of Hurricane Katia. According to this article transport links and power companies in Scotland and northern are facing disruption. The hurricane has already caused today's stage of the Tour of Britain cycle race which would have place between Kendall and Blackpool to be cancelled. The M6 has been closed at the Thelwall viaduct in Cheshire due to high winds and drivers have been advised to use the M61 instead. Central and southern Scotland, North Yorkshire and Cumbria are on amber alert and advised to be prepared. it is not yet clear whether mail deliveries will be affected in the local area.

posted on Monday, 12 September 2011 13:42:19 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Trackback