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    Quote Originally Posted by Frostee View Post
    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 :-P
    Yes that is 80 per month

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    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?

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    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.

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    Who does that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArferMo View Post
    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....

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

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

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    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! :D

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    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 ?
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