i want to rent a franking machine but need advice

rebin123

I'm sending about 300-500 and use large stamps 58p second class and about 10 package as well. So do you thing franking machine is cheaper and lass pain..

GlynD

Certainly saves time come evening post time. Is that 300-500 per day?

Savvy_Sue

GlynD wrote: »

Certainly saves time come evening post time.

until it jams / the labels won't print / you run out of credit or consumables ...

That is another reason why I've resisted one here (apart from not having sufficient volumes to justify it): it would be me sorting out all the problems! We had one in my last job, and they do take up space which we don't have either.

GlynD

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

until it jams / the labels won't print / you run out of credit or consumables ...

That is another reason why I've resisted one here (apart from not having sufficient volumes to justify it): it would be me sorting out all the problems! We had one in my last job, and they do take up space which we don't have either.

I've never seen one jam and I've never had any problems with printing labels. It makes common sense to keep your consumables up to date, same as you would with paperclips or staples. As for running out of credit, they're wired to a phoneline and it recharges credit in about 60 seconds. Much faster and more economical than going to the post office, especially if you're on a mail collect service.

The idea is to make more time for selling. Simple as that.

Establish mail collections
Get franking machine
Stay in the office and sell.

rebin123

GlynD wrote: »

Certainly saves time come evening post time. Is that 300-500 per day?

Sorry it is a month at the moment but we get our top seller back so it well be over 1000 st a month..
Tnks

GlynD

rebin123 wrote: »

Sorry it is a month at the moment but we get our top seller back so it well be over 1000 st a month..
Tnks

That's 250 a week. Borderline really. Where in the UK are you?

rebin123

GlynD wrote: »

That's 250 a week. Borderline really. Where in the UK are you?

North wast, Manchester

GlynD

Try this outfit then. http://www.northernservices.co.uk/

I've used them before on several occasions and always enjoyed a high level of service and economical supply.

flossy_splodge

GlynD wrote: »

I've never seen one jam and I've never had any problems with printing labels. It makes common sense to keep your consumables up to date, same as you would with paperclips or staples. As for running out of credit, they're wired to a phoneline and it recharges credit in about 60 seconds. Much faster and more economical than going to the post office, especially if you're on a mail collect service.

The idea is to make more time for selling. Simple as that.

Establish mail collections
Get franking machine
Stay in the office and sell.

Sadly I cant agree.
I HAVE seen one jam and the time it can take sorting out settings is irritating when it's supposed to be a time/cost saver.
Might well depend on make of course.

Savvy_Sue

flossy_splodge wrote: »

Sadly I cant agree.
I HAVE seen one jam and the time it can take sorting out settings is irritating when it's supposed to be a time/cost saver.
Might well depend on make of course.

I'm glad it's not just me. I think there was an element of operator error at times, but certainly when you were running a lot of labels through it was not always straightforward.