What does a mail consolidator do?

Any self employed people here? How do you handle your health insurance? From what Ive seen it looks very expensive to handle it on your own. Am i missing something? Can you get affordable rates and still work as a independent or self employed?

Hello
We produce mail for hundreds of clients, all in accordance with the regulations of the destination countries, which includes printing the appropriate postal indicia and address formatting (or we receive mail from clients produced correctly in accordance with our instructions and using our licensed PPIs). We mix and sort the mail according to the requirements of the receiving postal authority and then the mail is bagged and labeled appropriately to meet the requirements of the destination country or region.

By consolidating the mail of many clients and presenting it in a "sorted" condition to the postal operators we effectively handle some of the initial work for the postal operator, leaving the postal operator with less processing to undertake and fewer resources to employ. Also we leverage the collective might of all our clients negotiate with postal operators and they offer a trade rate to us which reflects the huge volumes of mail we give them. These rates are much cheaper than the general tariff.