Growth Incentive

A checklist of what you'll need before you start your application:

1. Applicant details
• Company name (as registered with Companies House)
• Contact details (including email address)
• Details of any agent that is managing your application (optional)

2. Royal Mail Account Numbers
If you have postage accounts in your own name that are used when posting Advertising Mail, you will need to provide full details.

3. Access Operator and UCID details
Only required if you post through Royal Mail Wholesale.

4. Mailmark Supply Chain ID (SCID)
The customer must be the mail originator in all SCIDs linked to this application. Note: You will not require a SCID if you are sending Catalogue Letters 101-150g or sending manual Large Letters.

5. Historic posting volume posted last 12 months

6. Forecast incremental volume
• Product type: Mailmark/ Non-mailmark
• Format – Standard postcards are not supported please see Machinable Postcard & One Piece Mailer SpecificationOpens in a new window for eligible postcards
• Weight band

Please note: You will be unable to submit this application if the start date is within 10 working days.

Required fields

Are you an agent making this request for your client? *

You are an agent if you are submitting the application on behalf of the customer who will benefit from the incentive.

Please ensure the above question is answered before continuing.

Please enter your details if you are acting as the Agent and submitting this application on behalf of the customer.

You and the customer will receive an acknowledgment email with a PDF copy of the application once this form is submitted. When the customer receives the confirmation email, we will inform them how we use their data they will be asked to reply confirming that they have read and understood the terms detailed in section 6. You should inform the customer how we intend to use their data as described in section 5. You are not required to accept the Terms & Conditions in section 6.

1. Customer information

Enter the details of the customer benefiting from the incentive.

Registered company name *

Sector *

Contact name *

Contact job title *

Email address *

Telephone number *

Additional contact

If you want a PDF copy of the submitted application to be sent to an additional contact please enter their company name and email address below. The additional contact will also be sent full details of the outcome of your application unless you tell us otherwise. Please leave blank if not.

2. Customer supply chain details that will be used for this incentive

Does the customer detailed in Section 1, have a Royal Mail account that they will use for this incentive?

Mailmark Supply Chain ID (SCID)

The customer shown in section 1 of this form must be the Mail Originator within any SCID that links to this application.

SCID

Additional information: Royal Mail Mailmark® service provides customers and Royal Mail with reporting and management information on mailings. The Mailmark service requires customers to include a barcode on their mail piece. The Mailmark barcode has specific requirements customers need to adhere to and must contain a unique item reference number and a Supply Chain IDOpens in a new window. The Supply Chain ID allows us to attribute the posted volume to the correct customer. To use Mailmark services and qualify for an incentive you have to be a participant in the Mailmark supply chain. If you are not already set up as a participant please contact mailmark@royalmail.com

Postage accounts

Please list the Royal Mail postage accounts that will be used for this incentive.

Access Provider

Please enter the details of the Access Provider who bills you for your mailing. The Access Provider may not be responsible for handing over your mail to Royal Mail.

List of UCIDs

UCID is the unique, identifying number assigned to you by an Access Provider for your mailings. You are likely to have multiple UCIDs if you post from more than one site and/or post under more than one postage account.

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3. Application details

Historic Volume posted

Please enter details of the actual advertising volume that you have posted over the last 12 months.

First posting date *

Enter the first date you expect mail to be handed over to Royal Mail.

Details of incentive 1: How do you plan to use the incentive to create incremental volume?

For the activity in question how do you currently communicate to your customers? What are you hoping to learn? What particular problem are you hoping to address? What are the key assumptions/findings this activity will provide?

Details of incentive 1 *

2000 character(s) remaining

Details of Incentive 2: Planned volume for next 12 months

If you were planning on reducing volume over the next 12 months, please enter the planned volume without the use of the incentive. Before accepting the application, you will be required to provide the following evidence to support the decline:

a. An email from a director of the company confirming the planned volume before the announcement of the incentive and the incremental volume being added is only being posted because of the incentive; and either of the following

b. Your 12-month mailing/campaign plans without the use of the growth incentive; or

c. Dated internal communication showing the decision-making process for agreeing to use the growth incentive.

Details of incentive 2 *

Additional evidence

Please provide any supporting information that you want us to take into consideration when validating your application. E.g. our volume has increased over the last 12 months.

4. Proposed Forecast Incremental Volume

For the purpose of monitoring your forecast, indicate how your 12-month forecast of incremental volume might break down by month.

Month 1 *

Month 2

Month 3

Month 4

Month 5

Month 6

Month 7

Month 8

Month 9

Month 10

Month 11

Month 12

Volume forecast by product

Please list the product(s) and respective volumes you intend to mail under this incentive.

Product type *

Format *

Weight band (grams) *

Expected volume by product *

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5. Use of your data

Please note that this section can only be completed if you are the customer submitting the application.

We will email to you to let you know we have received your application and will use the information you have provided in it to process it.

We may also use that information, including your name and contact details (email address and telephone number), to contact you to discuss customer incentives that may be of interest.

We will also inform the mail delivery provider under whose contract you are posting that you have made this application, so they can manage the contract relating to this incentive application.

6. Terms and conditions

Please note that terms can only be accepted if you are the customer submitting the application.

I have read and understood the

Royal Mail Group Incentive Scheme Framework TermsOpens in a new window

and the

Royal Mail Group Advertising Growth Incentive TermsOpens in a new window

I am duly authorised to make this application on behalf of the Customer named above.