Blog

10th April 2025

The Midlands Sustainability Excellence Awards

​We are happy to announce that we have been shortlisted for The Midlands Sustainability Excellence...Read More

4th April 2025

Our Recycling Processes (and responsibilities) as a Mailing House in 2025

Have you ever wondered what happens to the waste at Central Mailing Services, one of the nation’s ...Read More

18th March 2025

What Direct Mail Statistic Matters?

We all read so many posts and articles on platforms like LinkedIn — so what does a headline statis...Read More

13th March 2025

Direct Mail is Better When You Test

Written by Richard Morrow, Director @ Central Mailing Services Clients should test their direct m...Read More

27th February 2025

Royal Mail’s Delivery Target Changes, what do they mean for my Direct Mail?

Change within the Direct Mail Industry It's an old adage, but still true: change always brings op...Read More

5th November 2024

Why Direct Mail needs to learn work smart not hard

Data is useless unless you use it, it is an obvious statement, yet still I see way too many Direct m...Read More

24th October 2024

Mailing Houses in 2024, What’s Changed in the Last Decade?

The direct mail industry has undergone significant transformations over the past decade, with mailin...Read More

20th May 2024

Direct Mail vs Email Marketing

Is Direct Mail more 'trusted' than Email? When it comes to marketing, businesses have a choice betw...Read More

10th May 2024

Door Drop Marketing: Everything You Need To Know

Door drop marketing is a highly effective and versatile form of direct marketing that involves distr...Read More

26th February 2024

Embracing Sustainability: CMS Joins the West Midlands Net Zero Pledge

Central Mailing Services are committed to a sustainable future for the business. A key part of that ...Read More

15th January 2024

Announcing our new powerful charity partnership

We are poised to make a significant impact on future marketing and fundraising initiatives for a loc...Read More

26th June 2023

Paper Mail Wrapping

  Using a bio-based adhesive for paper mail wrapping Mailing houses face many of the same...Read More

14th July 2022

Door Drops and Direct Mail

Direct Mail and Door Drops – Collaboration or competition? There are no doubts about it, print ...Read More

15th June 2020

Why Print and Mail can fight back

I am going to make a stupid and Bold statement. Print and mailing can get stronger in today's new en...Read More

11th June 2020

Why are we so keen to win this race?

Why is it that some people in business are determined to lose money? Is there a peculiar kick one ge...Read More

2nd June 2020

The new opportunity for Direct Mail

There is now a lot of research and information showing that Direct Mail is a key tool in helping org...Read More

15th May 2020

Is now the time to think simple?

Do we over complicate things in print and mail? Do we need all the layers involved all the time? Hav...Read More

8th May 2019

Our Growing Digital Print Setup

If you've been following our social media lately you may have noticed we've been regularly adding to...Read More

21st January 2019

CMS January Update

January provides us with a great opportunity to reflect on the year gone by and to look ahead to the...Read More

19th October 2018

Birmingham City Council Cuts Arts Funding

This Friday Birmingham City Council announced that Birmingham arts organisations should prepare for ...Read More