Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?

[John G]

Quote taken from royal mail website

You can pay for your SmartStamp® subscription in two ways – monthly or annually. In addition, you will need to pay for any postage you print.

It costs £5.99 per month and postage costs on top - how does this save you any money? I don't understand!

[purpledragon]

Quote taken from royal mail website


It costs £5.99 per month and postage costs on top - how does this save you any money? I don't understand!

I havnt looked at this john but is the postage cheaper ? i use a franking machine and get my postage cheaper this pays for the rental

[John G]

Yes, but any saving is gobbled up in either the cost of the franking machine rental, or the monthly charge on the smartstamp. Not sure how you are making any saving - unless on the franking your sending thousands a month. I think I must be missing something!

[purpledragon]

I use pitny bowes and get discounted post the savings i make do cover the cost of the rental also i dont have to spend ages at the post office conter while they stamp each item so time saving is pretty good too, it does work out cheaper if you send a lot through the post

[magicfingers]

Thanks for the replies. I think we'll need to look at our post over the next month and figure out whether we'll save any money or if it is sufficiently less hassle to do.

[mugstar]

Well, I've done it! Ordered my franking machine today & also bought a label printer-it certainly seems like it could save quite a bit of cash...time will tell i suppose.

Purpledragon-do you have a usual supplier for toner & labels?? Even the lady at pitney bowes said don't buy it from there!!

Cheers
Steve

[purpledragon]

HI
I usually put a search in ebay for far cheaper inks than pitney bowes but hows this for a rip off i use my machine daily and it gets a lot of use my ink ran out 3 months ago bad planning on my part i waited until it wouldnt print before i ordered ink , so i had to wait for ink to be delivered before i could frank anything so i thought id just give it a try i took the supposidly empty ink out and put it straight back in and told the machine it was a new ink (it wasnt it was the empty one) that was 3 months ago im still using the same cartridge now if thats not a rip off i dont know what is

[bms]

Do you know where to get red ink in bulk to refill your cartridges?

[purpledragon]

no i dont martin but might be worth investigating as the carts obviouisly dont need chip resetting

[mugstar]

My label machine arrived yesterday, it is a Dymo labelwriter450. I had a play with it and if anyone is considering it I have to say it is a great bit of kit & it is a thermal printer so no ink ......together with the franking machine my postage is going to be much, much, much quicker!