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Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 22 Oct 2011, 12:43
by 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!
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 22 Oct 2011, 12:47
by purpledragon
John G;32391 wrote: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
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 22 Oct 2011, 12:51
by 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!
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 22 Oct 2011, 12:57
by 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
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 26 Oct 2011, 08:56
by 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.
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 27 Oct 2011, 20:22
by 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
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 28 Oct 2011, 08:35
by 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
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 29 Oct 2011, 19:49
by bms
Do you know where to get red ink in bulk to refill your cartridges?
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 29 Oct 2011, 21:08
by purpledragon
no i dont martin but might be worth investigating as the carts obviouisly dont need chip resetting
Re: Who do you use for mug postage, post office or courier?
Posted: 29 Oct 2011, 21:43
by 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!
