Franking Machine

Business buyers looking to buy or lease a franking machine need to evaluate a bunch of factors before going ahead with the purchase. Listed below are a selection of these factors and some brief tips to facilitate the purchase:

Assess mailing volume

It is important to understand the exact mailing requirements to understand whether a franking machine is indeed needed by the business. Questions that will help understand the mailing requirements are:

• Number of mails sent daily on an average
• Cost of postage each month without using a postage meter
• Types of mails sent by the office

The answer to these questions will determine whether a simple franking machine will suffice or one should opt for an advanced model. Of course, it will be prudent to factor in future increase (or decrease) in mailing volume when evaluating the volume.

If the average monthly spend on postage is less than GBP50 or 100, one may be better off considering other alternatives offered by the postal service.

Compare multiple vendors

After determining that there is indeed a need for a franking machine for the office, engage in comparison shopping to avail the best deals in the market. Check the best dealers and the services they offer. There may be free rentals offered by suppliers for fancy machines. Of course, one doesn’t have to look beyond QuotationJunction, since one can get franking machine quotations from multiple, highly qualified vendors from one site.

Evaluate postage charges

Postage charges are an important part of the meter costing. The rates are fixed by the postal authority and are likely to change. One needs to check if there are fixed yearly fees offered by the postal authority for rate insurance such that you can receive free scale updates. Postage charges can also be updated via the Internet.

Supplies

The supplies required for the postage meter such as sealing liquid, mailing tape etc can be sourced from other competitive suppliers instead of sourcing from the same supplier.

Service and support agreements

Choose a dealer who offers the most favorable service contract and offers service and support in the same area as one’s enterprise. The experience that other users have had with the chosen supplier will be a good gauge of a vendor’s capability to offer the desired level of service and support.