Ready to issue
We print, finish and check. One tracked consignment to one address, received by a named officer.
● Route two of two
Why the consignment matters
Delivering finished plates straight to drivers saves a licensing team real work, and we understand why authorities do it. But it moves the most sensitive item in the process - a live licence - out of your control at exactly the point it is most valuable to someone else.
One tracked consignment to one address, received by a named officer, is a different risk profile from a thousand consignments to a thousand addresses. We are not claiming immunity from parcel loss. We are reducing the number of parcels to one.
What it changes day to day
Four things, on the day
No printing, no stock
Products arrive finished. Nothing to hold, nothing to operate, nothing to train anyone on.
Predictable batches
Ordered against dates agreed at the start of the contract, so production is scheduled and lead times hold at renewal peaks.
Checked before dispatch
Errors are found here rather than at your counter.
Issue stays with you
Your officer still hands each plate to the verified driver, and the old plate is still surrendered and destroyed before the new one goes on the road.
How we prefer to fulfil
In batches, put in the calendar at the start
As large as your scheme can practically take, against dates agreed at the start of the contract.
Logistically
One scheduled consignment is one production run, one dispatch, one tracked delivery and one recorded handover. Every additional consignment is an additional point of failure.
Environmentally
The carbon figures assume consolidated delivery. Twenty small consignments do not carry the same footprint as one large one, and an authority reporting our figure needs an ordering pattern that supports it.
Ad hoc single plates are available for genuine emergencies - a damaged plate, a new vehicle mid-cycle, a replacement after a licence variation. It is an exception rather than the model.
Where it suits less well
An authority expecting frequent one-off issues will find the batching awkward, and each exception costs a separate consignment.
Two routes, one security standard
Issue on Demand
You hold blank stock and print variable data at the counter, at the moment of issue. Nothing personalised exists until your officer creates it.
Read about issue on demand →Ready to Issue
We print, finish and send one tracked consignment to your licensing team, ready to hand over.
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Both routes carry the same materials, the same security features and the same testing behind them. How products reach your officers is an operational decision, not a security one.
Tell us your renewal peaks.
We schedule production against the dates your scheme actually needs, agreed at the start rather than chased through the year.
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