Fax machines at postal sorting offices

Nicholas Albery

The Royal Mail service over the next twenty years will lose almost all its letters business to fax machines; but in the shorter term it could get some of this fax traffic for itself by equipping every sorting office with a publicised 0898 fax number. This Telecom service would charge the fax sender at 33p (off-peak) to 44p (peak rate) per minute. Royal Mail's 50% share of receipts from this would cover the cost of the local sorting office sending the fax on to the local customer by first class post.

'The Royal Mail will lose almost all its letters business to fax machines; but it could get some of this fax traffic for itself by equipping every sorting office with a publicised 0898 fax number'

Members of the public locally without their own fax machines could put the sorting office's fax number on their notepaper. And to send a fax this way you would fill in a standardised front page fax form, to be obtainable from any post office, with the address in a set place on the form, so the sorting office could easily place the fax in a window-style envelope.

Nicholas Albery, 20 Heber Road, London NW2 6AA (tel 081 208 2853; fax 081 452 6434).

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