Anyone on here work in the Franking machine industry - if there is such a thing.
I need a new one for work and just wondered if anyone had any tips
Steer clear of Pitney Bowes.
That's who we are tied to at the moment - and have just tried to tie me in for 5 more years hence looking around but not easy to get prices without giving everyone my information and getting a hard sell
Anyone on here work in the Franking machine industry - if there is such a thing.
I need a new one for work and just wondered if anyone had any tips
Steer clear of Pitney Bowes.
That's who we are tied to at the moment - and have just tried to tie me in for 5 more years hence looking around but not easy to get prices without giving everyone my information and getting a hard sell
Let me ask the question tomorrow at work, we moved from Pitney Bowes to someone else after getting done over.
Franking machine lease companies are the biggest bunch of frigging cowboys this side of the Rio Grande. The machine is as technically sophisticated as a potato peeler but will cost upwards of a £1k if you buy one and ten times that if you lease one.
Then you have to pay licence fees to Royal Mail and if you want a firm to service the machine it will make a monthly support charge more than a car service contract, even though there's nothing to break.
When stamp rates go up you get mugged for the price of a new Apple computer to get a replacement chip. Then you pay through the nose for stationary supplies you have to get from Pitney Bowes.
Others may have better experiences. Last week we got an invoice for servicing a franking machine under a contract that ended three years ago. The firm went bust but kept the client list and occasionally send an invoice in the hope that some might get paid I guess.
They are essentially finance companies using credit card rates of interest.
We now buy stamps from cash and carry for a discount and stick them on envelopes. Before that, after binning the franking machine we used the Royal Mail's own service to buy postage online and print post paid address labels from the computer using mail merge.
They have now clamped down on this and companies are not allowed to lease equitment to customers for more than book price. I work in the copier/print industry and there are plenty of cowboys out there.
i nearly got fooled there into thinking you could have a team of dogs licking the stamps before I remembered that not only would that be a gross abuse of animal rights, also you'd get dog slobber on the envelopes, but also every stamp I have bought for years is self adhesive....
If one of the recommendations saves my company a few hundred pounds AND puts some business to a local firm who are more likely to look after me then that's all good.
If one of the recommendations saves my company a few hundred pounds AND puts some business to a local firm who are more likely to look after me then that's all good.
Sorry for inconveniencing you though
It was meant in jest. Love a 'boring' thread, otherwise I wouldn't be in here.
Although if I see "Franking Machines - exciting topic" I'll know our footballing performances have somehow got even worse.
If one of the recommendations saves my company a few hundred pounds AND puts some business to a local firm who are more likely to look after me then that's all good.
Sorry for inconveniencing you though
Glad this had a happy ending, I couldn't sleep all night thinking about this roller coaster of a dilemma!
Can't wait for next week's thread on some Lifer asking about photocopier leasing.
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Then you have to pay licence fees to Royal Mail and if you want a firm to service the machine it will make a monthly support charge more than a car service contract, even though there's nothing to break.
When stamp rates go up you get mugged for the price of a new Apple computer to get a replacement chip. Then you pay through the nose for stationary supplies you have to get from Pitney Bowes.
Others may have better experiences. Last week we got an invoice for servicing a franking machine under a contract that ended three years ago. The firm went bust but kept the client list and occasionally send an invoice in the hope that some might get paid I guess.
They are essentially finance companies using credit card rates of interest.
We now buy stamps from cash and carry for a discount and stick them on envelopes. Before that, after binning the franking machine we used the Royal Mail's own service to buy postage online and print post paid address labels from the computer using mail merge.
We paid £25k for a franking machine worth £1,200z
No shit!
I put it there...just to stop comments like that.
If one of the recommendations saves my company a few hundred pounds AND puts some business to a local firm who are more likely to look after me then that's all good.
Sorry for inconveniencing you though
Although if I see "Franking Machines - exciting topic" I'll know our footballing performances have somehow got even worse.
Can't wait for next week's thread on some Lifer asking about photocopier leasing.