Using a franking machine in your company will have the advantage of reducing your postage costs and makes your outgoing mail process more efficient. Your office staff does not need to queue up at the post office to buy stamps in different denominations nor frank all the mail pieces manually. You will also enjoy peace-of-mind as you will never overpay or underpay postage with the built-in postage rate table in your franking machine and your accounting has full oversight of the

While the response rate on direct mail outperforms all digital channels by almost 600%, a lot of money is wasted each year due to suboptimal campaigns resulting in poorer response rates, increased overall campaign costs and ultimately unhappy customers. According to one research, up to £300m p.a. are wasted in the UK alone. The guys at The Software Bureau prepared a very useful keynote identifying five sources of waste through which we will run briefly: Pack Design - accordin

Metered franking is a way of paying for your letter postage without the need of buying and sticking stamps. Franked mail is done by a machine, called a postage meter or franking machine, owned by a business or company. The cost of the postage is pre-paid and input into the machine remotely from which it is deducted during use. Instead of a postage stamp the machine imprints an insignia mark with date and postage value on the envelopes along with business logo, advertising or

For the first time since 2006, Singapore Post is going to revise its domestic and international postage rates effective 1st of October 2014 as published last Tuesday. SingPost officials state that the adjustment in postage rates come amid an overall challenging postal business environment and will help to roll out service enhancements. The new local postage rates and international postage rates have been published on SingPost's official website. If you use a postage meter fro

Franking Machines, also called Postage Meter Machine (even though there is some technical difference in their definition , we will use it here synonymously for the sake of convenience), are not a new invention but still an often overlooked vital piece of office equipment that can go a long way when improving office productivity in your organisation. A franking machine is used for franking envelopes by printing a mark on the envelope eleminating the need of stamps. It manages

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Here are five easy tips that will help you saving on ink and keep your operation costs low: Collect your mail throughout the day and process them in batches rather than franking small quantities every now and then. Do not power-off your machine in between but let it go into stand-by mode itself. Avoid using the manual cartridge cleaning function unless it is really necessary. Do not anyhow cut the power but switch you machine off properly. Your machine will move the printhead