Feature

The envelope decides whether the letter is read

Two seconds in a post room, and a person sorts your letter into personal or marketing. Design Studio exists to win those two seconds.

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Type a name, then pick a style. These are the two envelopes Design Studio sets up for you.

Jordan Lee
Head of Operations
Northwind Ltd
Floor 4, Northwind House
Leeds LS1 4BR
1 2 3 4
Handwriting
  1. 1
    A real stamp. Not franking, not a printed indicia.
  2. 2
    The address in a handwriting style. It changes which pile it lands in.
  3. 3
    Plain, no window. A window reads as an invoice.
  4. 4
    Name and job title on separate lines. The title saves you when they have moved on.
Or make it funTen envelope styles in Design Studio. Tap one.

Add your logo or images to any style, and change the address size and colour. The real stamp goes on every one.

Simplified previews. Brightwell and Northwind are invented. Nothing is sent.

People spend a fortnight on the offer inside and no thought at all on the thing that decides whether anybody opens it. In a company of any size, your envelope is looked at for about two seconds by somebody deciding which pile it belongs in. That is the entire competition.

What we do about it

The mistake to avoid. Do not write Private and Confidential on marketing mail. It reads as an attempt to bypass normal handling and whoever opens it knows exactly what you did. One delivery, at the cost of the impression you were trying to make.

Why this is a feature rather than a checkbox

Because none of the above is difficult, and almost nobody does it consistently. Doing it the same way on every send, at a volume no person could sustain by hand, is the entire value. The full walkthrough of what happens to an envelope between the postbox and the desk is here, and it is the most useful thing on this website if you are new to post.

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