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Frostee;86952 wrote:When you say 80 parcels does that mean each month to break even? (based on those sizes)

im setting up a drop off thing with royal mail now as post office.told me i cant keep turning up with 15 parcels etc

Yes that is 80 per month

Janners

I'm looking into this and I got a quote from a supplier stating that I can buy for £349 which includes a machine, scale, meter and 1 ink cart (which is approx. 1400 stamps). On a large letter 250g I'm saving 18p or 30p on a small parcel size. So with each printed "stamp" costing 2p each I'm down to saving 16p/28p. plus the labels I would need to buy which cost around 2p each (reducing the savings to 14 & 26p) - it would take me saying a saving of 20p on average - 1700 items before I make my money back.

BUT.... how much does it cost to top up a machine on average?

Why use a franking machine just set up an account and use your PC no rental/ink/charging fee and great savings. And only one label instead or two per item.

Who does that?

ArferMo;89971 wrote:Why use a franking machine just set up an account and use your PC no rental/ink/charging fee and great savings. And only one label instead or two per item.

Ok Tell us more....

Janners

ArferMo;89981 wrote:http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/ ... 2014_0.pdf

Nice idea...but I can't get mugs in a large envelope. Perhaps I'll do phone covers then!

Janners

Phone covers, tee shirts, bags etc all less than 25mm

We use a franking machine, and have done for a couple of months. Its great, and saving us a small fortune, but I find the scales to be VERY slow and quite annoying!

I don't know if its still true, but I found out a couple of years ago that a Post Offices are paid by piece work so when you drop off a load of pre-paid parcels they don't earn money on they can find it quite frustrating...

We've got a deal with our local sorting office that we can drive round the back and drop our franked post off there lots quicker and easier!

Bringing this post back up to the top, as i have had a call from a Pitney Bowes man today, who assures me it is now much cheaper and easier, to have a machine than "ever before" and that I would be nuts not to consider having one.

On ebay i use probably 40/70 large letter stamps a week and 10/15 std letter stamps - its always hard to estimate ebay as last week I did 50 the week before I did 107.

Then there are probably 2-3 parcels a week. So am I going to remain "nuts" or are there savings to be had ?