Once more, after much deliberation, the panel of expert judges for this year’s UK Mail Awards has announced the short-listed entries for 2007.

Sponsored by some of the biggest names in the industry, including Citipost, PA Consulting, Royal Mail and UK Mail, and presided over by a panel of independent experts from the industry, this is the fourth year of the UK Mail Awards. They have rightly been acknowledged as the domestic postal industry's most prestigious appreciation of excellence and achievement.

Entries were open to any UK-based postal operator, service provider or mailing agency. The Awards are designed to recognise and reward best practice across all sections of the industry.

The shortlist nominations for 2007 are:

Database Management - sponsored by Royal Mail
Datalytics for their EMAP Consumer Media (ECM) Subscription Retention project
Celerity for their for its TUI Single View project
DQM for their Data SURE Process
 

Digital Print
WDMP for their Thomson Holidays - Anniversary Mailing
Howard Hunt for their Oxfam Unwrapped Digital Fulfilment

Downstream Access – sponsored by Royal Mail Wholesale
This award is not open to public applications and the winner will be announced at the presentation

Corporate Social Responsibility – sponsored by Triangle
CitySprint for their Environmental Programme
Royal Mail Group for their Carbon Neutral Door to Door Scheme
Royal Mail for their Holistic Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility

Innovation - sponsored by PA Consulting Group
Royal Mail for their Personalised Integrated Media (PIM) campaign
DX for their Launch of SecureDX
Regional Mail Services for their Postalsort Limited
Royal Mail for their E-Redelivery

Mail Centre of the Year - sponsored by UK Mail
This award is not open to public applications, and the winner will be announced at the presentation

Marketing Campaign – Citipost
Royal Mail for their Stoplateness campaign
WDMP for their TalkTalk - Receipt campaign
WDMP for their Blackberry - Curve launch DM campaign

Technology – sponsored by ME news
BFPO for their e-bluey technology
An Post for their A cost saving “New” Postage Stamp
ONEPOST for their ONEPOST software

The panel of judges will meet again at the end of October, just before the ceremony itself, to select the winner in each category. The victors will celebrate their success in front of an audience of over 300 of their peers and colleagues in the UK mailing industry.

The UK Mail Awards Gala Dinner

This year’s awards will take place on Tuesday 30 October at the industry's annual Gala Dinner in the Champagne Suite of the Novotel London West in Hammersmith. Hosting the evening and presenting the trophies will be one of the UK’s top explorers, Monty Halls.

Because of the popularity of the dinner, those wishing to attend the awards presentation are urged to book their places as soon as possible.

More information on reserving a place can be found at Mail Awards Alternatively, please email events@triangle.eu.com or call organisers Triangle on 0870 950 7900.