Stuffing

Private mail service providers in Switzerland can only carry mailings over 50 g. If your mailing weighs less than 50 g, you will need to ‘stuff’ it to ensure delivery by Quickmail. Stuffing means increasing the weight of a mailing to over 50 g to take advantage of the free letter market and thus price savings.

How do I stuff consignments?

There are two ways to add weight to a mailing:

• Simple Stuffing:
  Use heavier paper. Heavier paper gives mailings an impression of quality and often increases the response rate. The additional costs are usually quickly recouped.Productive stuffing:

• Productive stuffing:
  Include an insert, extra pages or a small gift with your mailing. Experience has shown that high-quality inserts also lead to higher response rates. Both stuffing solutions can improve the profitability of your mailings, as shipping via Quickmail alone offers potential savings of up to 15 % on postage costs.

Both stuffing solutions increase the profitability of your mailings. Sending your mailings via Quickmail can save you up to 15% on postage costs.

How do I calculate the costs for the higher paper weight?

The rule of thumb in the printing industry is: 10 g more paper weight costs (at most) 2 centimes.

Here’s an example:

• A mailing consists of an envelope, letter and payment slip, which together weigh 15 g, and a brochure in A5 format with 20 pages, which has a paper weight of 80 g/sqm and weighs 25 g. The mailing weighs 40 g in total. In total, the mailing weighs 40 g.

• Now select a paper weight of 115 g/sqm for the brochure. The brochure will now be 44 % heavier and weigh 39 g.

• For the brochure with 80 g/sqm you used to pay 22 centimes or CHF 220 per 1000 pieces for printing, for the heavier brochure you now pay 24 centimes or CHF 240 per 1000 pieces, i.e. 2 centimes more.

My printshop claims that 10 g more paper weight costs a lot more than 2 centimes extra.

Get other quotations or show your printshop on the internet how online printshops calculate if, for example, instead of a weight of 80 g/sqm a weight of 115 g/sqm is chosen.

My printshop claims that the print will even be cheaper despite the heavy weight.

Compare quotes for your mailing from different printshops. We would be happy to advise you on the various options for getting your mailing to 50 g.