Dunstable purchase for The Mailing Room

The Mailing Room has completed its biggest corporate acquisition to date, buying a Dunstable-based counterpart

Digital Post Solutions (DPS) supplies franking machines to more than 2,500 companies across the UK, including SMEs, start-ups, large corporates and public sector branches.

One of the business’ joint founders, Terry Smart, is taking retirement, with co-founder Mark Steele and fellow director James Johnson joining Bury-based TMR to help grow the newly-amalgamated business.

TMR has pursued the deal for “some time, since it was felt there was a good fit between both organisations’ operating styles”.

“Although digital substitution of letters and cards has impacted on the domestic postal market, the business sector is still holding up well,” said managing director Ian Davidson.

“Mail is seen as a medium of authority in the business world, for circulating invoices, membership drives, electoral notices, confidential healthcare information and the like, while commercial emails have been hampered by the impact of GDPR and the need to obtain consent.

“At the same time, Royal Mail parcel traffic has risen almost 6 per cent and more independent carriers are entering the market.

“So, with parcel shipping volumes on the rise, multi-carrier usage the norm, and increasing shipping fees and size ratings, hard-pressed business users need technology that takes the guesswork out of parcel and package shipping.”