ReleaseWire Connect

UK Envelope Company, Discount Envelopes, have recently commented on the Royal Mail's revelation regarding which post has helped shape the history of our country - including letters dating as far back as 500 years ago.

UK envelope company, Discount Envelopes, have recently commented on Royal Mail's plans to combat post thieves, who have been stealing post boxes throughout the country.

Recent news has seen the increased publicising of prolific handwritten letters – including the rapper Eminem's letter to the mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur. Eminem, which is the stage name of Marshall Bruce Mathers III, apparently took to letter writing to express the intensity of his feelings regarding how Tupac inspired him and the significance of his music.

At a recent conference on social media marketing in the Philippines, one company surprised everyone by calling for the return of the nostalgic pen and paper. The conference brought together leaders from around the world in all areas of media marketing and included businesses in fields as diverse as stationery, pens and other supplies. Many have lamented the decline in reading and writing in the traditional manner whilst the digital age accelerates at an ever more rapid speed. The platform where the idea was presented and its audience, appreciated the gesture.

Albert Einstein, one of the most celebrated geniuses of our time spent a considerable amount of time writing letters to his loved ones, and others. Now these letters are to be put up for auction. The collection of 27 letters is estimated to fetch a price in the range of $500,000 to $1 million. Einstein is renowned for winning the Nobel Prize for Physics and unveiling the theory of relativity for the public. But he is also equally famous for his sayings and wisdom which will undoubtedly be present in the collection.

Following the role of postal votes in the General Election, it is important to consider the position of an integral feature of this system – envelopes. Recent reports from the CWaC have included admissions that over 300 people from the UK have contacted them saying their postal vote had not arrived in time. The process of postal voting, where the vote is cast by the individual at home and then sent away in a sealed envelope, is a key provision of the electoral system.

Reports regarding the arrival of two identical election envelopes at certain addresses has led to extensive confusion in some areas of England. Whilst one envelope contained ballot papers for district council elections and the general election, the other contained papers and information, regarding town council elections. Thus the contents of both envelopes are important, but their identical nature has led to some being torn up or even disposed of in the belief that they are duplicates rather than separate documents.The issue of identical envelopes is estimated to be affecting those in the Newbury and Thatham areas – up to 7,000 postal voters.

Card and envelope sellers in the UK have received an increase in sales lately thanks to the approach of Mother's Day and Easter, one prominent seller of envelope products has claimed.

One of the UK's best providers of affordable envelopes, Discount Envelopes, have backed calls from the EU Environment commissioner to bring in new legislation to ensure more use of recycled materials.