Throw Away The Franking Machine!

Re: Throw Away The Franking Machine!

I missed this post (joke). Yeah we have used this for abot 6 weeks or so as no one ever wanted to go and buy me stamps and Franking machines were out of the question given the quantity of mail.
Basicly you pay by debit card to charge up your account, simply download the software and away you go.
Its great for business as you can decide on 1st or 2nd post for each individual envelope, cut and past the address and print off the envelope with the postage. You do have to be online to use it so broadband is essential. It works on lables too but not all label printers (we use a Seiko one and have never managed to get it to work). You can also use it for parcels including special delivery but you still need to queue up in the post office to get your reciept of postage. You can download the software as many times as you want on to any PC so you can use it from home or wherever using just the one account.
The down sides as far as we have found are:
You cannot print a postage without an address as address information is also stored within the pixels of the ‘stamp’, so you cannot print a sheet of lables and use them as normal stamps. They are also dated a latest posting date which is usualy the next day. They are not so great for personal items like birthday cards etc as they look horribly official. oh and it costs about £4 odd a month. Just make sure you dont run out of ink too as it will still debit your acount even if the thing hasnt actually printed. You can apparrently return unused and wrongly printed items (like on the wrong side of the envelope, hands up that was me, all ten of them!) for credit but I havn’t put that to the test as yet.
Mark.