What is a PO Box?

A PO Box address allows you to keep a separate mailing address away from your home address or even provide an address if you do not have a permanent home address. It can be used for all sorts of reasons, personal correspondence, keeping an address in the UK after moving abroad, an address for all your business requirements, and much more. PO Boxes, however, come with limitations. Many institutions, banks, governments and such will not accept a PO Box as your mailing address for personal or business uses. OfficeServ provides a solution to this with our Virtual Office service starting from just £9 per month.

How does a PO Box work?

OfficeServ’s Virtual PO Box services work just like any other PO Box service but without the limitations that normally come with a standard PO Box. You can use the address we provide for all your mailing requirements, both personal and business, providing the same reliable, confidential service to all. We provide a real UK street address that you can receive all your mail and parcels at, yes parcels too! Everything is processed, sorted and forwarded to you the same working day it arrives. If you don’t wish for it to be forwarded, we can safely hold it at our offices, so you can collect or have everything forwarded together later.

Unlimited Virtual PO Box Address

Unlike other providers, there are no limits to the amount of mail you can receive at your new OfficeServ virtual address. No per item charges or handling fees, and unlimited letters and parcels are all included. If items are forwarded to your confidential forwarding address, you only pay the cost of any outgoing postage. We also don’t charge extra on top of this, and we pass on our commercial discounts!

Unlimited Packages & Parcels

Our Virtual PO Box Service allows you to receive packages and parcels without a problem. Need an address for customer returns, or having items shipped to before sending everything internationally, or just a confidential parcel address? OfficeServ have you covered.

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Unlimited Scanning & Emailing Of Letters

Would you like all your letters to be opened, scanned and emailed directly to your inbox the same working day they arrive? No problem, OfficeServ provides a complete scan and email service. Not only is this unlimited, but there are also no per letter or page fees. Everything scanned is processed for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), meaning the PDF of your mail is fully searchable. So when you need to find that letter about your car insurance renewal, it’s easy! Just open up the folder with all your mail scans inside, hit search, enter “insurance” or maybe your car registration and every letter that contains those terms will be listed.

Royal Mail PO Box Comparison

Royal Mail’s PO Box services are far from reasonably priced, starting at £36.00 a month with a minimum contract of three months for collection only. With OfficeServ’s Virtual Service starting from as little as £9.00 per month, we provide a great alternative option, with more features and better comprehensive service, including being able to speak with a real person at our address location about your mail and account.

 

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Virtual Basic

£10 +VAT per month £12.00 inc.VAT Only £9.00PM Paid Yearly!
  • Included Virtual Office Address ?
    Your own Virtual Office Address to use for all your business requirements as you see fit.
  • Included Unlimited Mail & Parcels ?
    OfficeServ do not limit the amount of items you can receive, or charge any fees! Unlike other providers, receive as much mail as you require.
  • Included Same Day Forwarding ?
    All letters are sorted and forwarded the same working day, subject to collection cut off times. We only pass on the cost of any postage or shipping billed to us, no increase or fees!
  • Included Package & Parcel Forwarding ?
    All packages and parcels are sorted and forwarded the same working say as requested, subject to collection cut off times.
  • not Included Unlimited Scan & Email ?
    We can open, scan and then email your letters the same working day they arrive. Original documents are held and available on request for 10 working days before being securely destroyed. Unlike other providers there are no limits on the amount of letters we will scan for you! Also our scanning makes the PDF document text searchable for your convenience.
  • Included Meeting Room Access ?
    Access to book our meeting room at a reduced rate.
  • Included 1 Week Mail Holding ?
    Mail can be held free of charge before forwarding for up to one week, after which forwarding or collection will be required.
  • Included 1 Week Package Holding ?
    Packages and parcels can be held free of charge before forwarding for up to one week, after which forwarding or collection will be required.
  • not Included Pallet & Freight Handling ?
    We will accept and handle incoming and outgoing pallet and freight deliveries, subject to prior arrangement. Extra Fees may be incurred.
  • not Included Registered Office Address ?
    This service does not included the use of our address as a Registered Office in connection with Companies House. If you wish to use our address at Companies House for any requirements, you would also require our yearly Registered Address Service.
  • not Included Unique Office Suite Number* ?
    *Only available paying yearly. Your Personal Office Address! We provide a unique "Office 101" or "Suite 120" number to put in front of our address. You can then receive all the mail you like using the unique identifier, addressed to different trading names or people in your business, or even personal mail! This can also be used with Google, Bing and Amazon Address Verification Cards. Please note this cannot be used to register multiple companies at Companies House.
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Virtual Standard

£16 +VAT per month £19.20 inc.VAT Only £14.40PM Paid Yearly!
  • Included Virtual Office Address ?
    Your own Virtual Office Address to use for all your business requirements as you see fit.
  • Included Unlimited Mail & Parcels ?
    OfficeServ do not limit the amount of items you can receive, or charge any fees! Unlike other providers, receive as much mail as you require.
  • Included Same Day Forwarding ?
    All letters are sorted and forwarded the same working day, subject to collection cut off times. We only pass on the cost of any postage or shipping billed to us, no increase or fees!
  • Included Package & Parcel Forwarding ?
    All packages and parcels are sorted and forwarded the same working say as requested, subject to collection cut off times.
  • Included Unlimited Scan & Email ?
    We can open, scan and then email your letters the same working day they arrive. Original documents are held and available on request for 10 working days before being securely destroyed. Unlike other providers there are no limits on the amount of letters we will scan for you! Also our scanning makes the PDF document text searchable for your convenience.
  • Included Meeting Room Access ?
    Access to book our meeting room at a reduced rate.
  • Included Unlimited Scan & Email ?
    We can open, scan and then email your letters the same working day they arrive. Original documents are held and available on request for 10 working days before being securely destroyed.
  • Included 1 Month Mail Holding ?
    Mail can be held free of charge before forwarding for up to one month, after which forwarding or collection will be required.
  • Included 1 Week Package Holding ?
    Packages and parcels can be held free of charge before forwarding for up to one week, after which forwarding or collection will be required.
  • not Included Pallet & Freight Handling ?
    We will accept and handle incoming and outgoing pallet and freight deliveries, subject to prior arrangement. Extra Fees may be incurred.
  • not Included Registered Office Address ?
    This service does not included the use of our address as a Registered Office in connection with Companies House. If you wish to use our address at Companies House for any requirements, you would also require our yearly Registered Address Service.
  • not Included Unique Office Suite Number* ?
    *Only available paying yearly. Your Personal Office Address! We provide a unique "Office 101" or "Suite 120" number to put in front of our address. You can then receive all the mail you like using the unique identifier, addressed to different trading names or people in your business, or even personal mail! This can also be used with Google, Bing and Amazon Address Verification Cards. Please note this cannot be used to register multiple companies at Companies House.

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Virtual Premium

£25 +VAT per month £30 inc.VAT Only £21.25PM Paid Yearly!
  • Included Virtual Office Address ?
    Your own Virtual Office Address to use for all your business requirements as you see fit.
  • Included Unlimited Mail & Parcels ?
    OfficeServ do not limit the amount of items you can receive, or charge any fees! Unlike other providers, receive as much mail as you require.
  • Included Same Day Forwarding ?
    All letters are sorted and forwarded the same working day, subject to collection cut off times. We only pass on the cost of any postage or shipping billed to us, no increase or fees!
  • Included Package & Parcel Forwarding ?
    All packages and parcels are sorted and forwarded the same working say as requested, subject to collection cut off times.
  • Included Unlimited Scan & Email ?
    We can open, scan and then email your letters the same working day they arrive. Original documents are held and available on request for 10 working days before being securely destroyed. Unlike other providers there are no limits on the amount of letters we will scan for you! Also our scanning makes the PDF document text searchable for your convenience.
  • Included Meeting Room Access ?
    Access to book our meeting room at a reduced rate.
  • Included 3 Months Mail Holding ?
    Mail can be held free of charge before forwarding for up to one three months, after which forwarding or collection will be required.
  • Included 1 Month Package Holding ?
    Packages and parcels can be held free of charge before forwarding for up to one month, after which forwarding or collection will be required.
  • Included Pallet & Freight Handling ?
    We will accept and handle incoming and outgoing pallet and freight deliveries, subject to prior arrangement. Extra Fees may be incurred.
  • not Included Registered Office Address ?
    This service does not included the use of our address as a Registered Office in connection with Companies House. If you wish to use our address at Companies House for any requirements, you would also require our yearly Registered Address Service.
  • Included Unique Office Suite Number* ?
    *Only available paying yearly. Your Personal Office Address! We provide a unique "Office 101" or "Suite 120" number to put in front of our address. You can then receive all the mail you like using the unique identifier, addressed to different trading names or people in your business, or even personal mail! This can also be used with Google, Bing and Amazon Address Verification Cards. Please note this cannot be used to register multiple companies at Companies House.

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Royal Mail Redirection

Redirection services provided by Royal Mail are primarily a temporary service, used when a business or residential property occupier move from one address to a new address. The service can be great for this, but only when moving from one long term address to another long term address, otherwise it can get very costly.

Redirection is very simple to implement, you just contact Royal Mail and tell them the address your currently at and the address your moving to, importantly though you must tell them the names of whom are moving address. With business redirection you will need to provide and pay for each business name / trading name that mail arrives under for your company, much the same for residential, you provide all the full names of any recipients that are moving to the new address.

Royal Mail will then automatically redirect any post addressed to the named recipients and deliver the items to the new address. At present you can set this service up for 3, 6 or 12 months. We have outlined the cost of these Royal Mail redirection services below:

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Royal Mail PO Boxes

PO Boxes are fast becoming a thing of the past, the term PO Box in the UK is almost immediately associated with the idea of trying to hide from or deceive the sender. Then you have the timely and manual task of visiting the box to collect mail each day, week or month. Royal Mail do still provide this service though but it comes at a cost. There is also the issue that a lot of places will not accept a PO Box as an address. PO Box pricing from Royal Mail is shown below, alongside an OfficeServ Virtual Office Package that would provide the same service with lots more added benefits, including a real street address not a PO Box one:

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Using OfficeServ to provide your mailing solution!

OfficeServ can not only provide the full mailing solution you may require, we can also save you time and money! Below our some of the flexible benefits of our services.

Make Changes As You Please

Being able to change your forwarding address anytime you wish without charge. Need a item of mail forwarding to your hotel while your away? Working abroad for a while? We can forward your mail anywhere at your request!

Your Own Digital Mailroom

Receive all your mail instantly to your email inbox! Mail sent to your virtual address with OfficeServ can be scanned and converted to high resolution, fully searchable PDF format, then sent directly to your inbox.

Packages & Parcels

We can handle parcels and large shipments, meaning you can have just about anything sent to your address with us, not just letters! When required we can even provide forklift services to deal with freight deliveries.

No Contract

No minimum terms. Cancel anytime on our pay monthly options. Unlike Royal Mail where you have to commit for three months minimum term. This can provide great flexibility.

Verdict

In summary, Royal Mail redirection can make sense if your moving from one place to another and stay there. However putting in place an OfficeServ digital mailroom service can have massive benefits, not only just when moving. If you need any help deciding if one of our services can help support your business, please get in touch with us now!

For more information on Royal Mail PO Boxes or Redirection please visit their website via the following links.

https://www.royalmail.com/business/manage-mail/redirection-diversion
https://www.royalmail.com/start-your-redirection
https://www.royalmail.com/receiving/po-box

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