IHTM02141 - Communications: British Document Exchange: what is British Document Exchange?

British Document Exchange (otherwise called ‘Britdoc’ or ‘DX’) is an alternative to the Royal Mail for sending business letters to agents. It is a licensed private postal system whose membership includes many solicitors and accountants and some Government departments.

The service

• offers a considerable saving over normal postal costs, and
• undertakes to deliver all DX correspondence by the following day

All members of Britdoc are required to display their

• DX number, and
• exchange location

on their headed notepaper

A number of solicitors and accountants display document exchange addresses on their letterheads for exchanges other than DX. These include

• CDE (City Document Exchange)
• LDE (London Document Exchange)
• MDX (Midland Document Exchange)
• NDX (Northern Document Exchange)

DX will deliver to these exchanges.