Carbon savings

Assess your carbon impact

Assess your postal output to understand the carbon and cost savings possible by switching to Mailock.

How much could you save?

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We will store your entries and use them for market research. If made public, data will be anonymised. Calculations are high-level estimates, based on enterprise practices.

How many customers do you communicate with by post?

= 10,000,000 customers 10,000,000 50
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We'll use the number of customers that you regularly communicate with by post to calculate the total number of communications and estimate your potential carbon equivalent savings.

How often do you communicate with customers by post?

What percentage of your customers receives post at each frequency?

= annual communication frequency

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We'll use your answers to estimate communication frequency and calculate your total annual output.

What kind of documents do you regularly deliver by post?

Adjust the weightings for the example documents that best fit your output.

12 page A4 letter in DL envelope

28 page A4 brochure in a C5 envelope

320 page A4 brochure in a C4 envelope

10% 25% 65%

= average gCO2e per communication

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We'll use these ratios to estimate your total annual mail volume and carbon impact, based on standard industry data.

Based on your answers, your document output looks like this:

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= pages per year

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Calculate carbon impact
Based on your figures, we’ll calculate how much carbon you could save by switching to secure digital delivery.

Your current carbon impact is:

= tonnes of CO2e
annually from postal communications

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See how much I could save
All communications have a carbon footprint - even email. These figures include the full lifecycle of digital alternatives.

You could save
tonnes of carbon by digitising…


... of your paper output.

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How much could I save in £?
These estimates reflect typical customer preferences for how they receive communications in regulated sectors.

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