Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Hilton on April 24, 2012, 11:12:31 am
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If you do mail outs in any great number you will be better off using a franking machine from April 30th due to the huge increase in postal charges.
Franking Machine prices will rise to :1st Class 44p-2nd class 31p
Non Franking Machine Prices rise to: 1st class 60p- 2nd class 50p
A mail shot of 1000 items will cost 2nd class franked £310.00
Non Franked £500.00..... :o
Alternatively pull finger out and get a wedge load sent out before April 30th to beat the rise (for now)
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Or buy your 1st/2nd class stamps in bulk from Royal Mail website. Pay current prices, stamps that show 1st/2nd class as opposed to a monetary value will still be valid
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Or buy your 1st/2nd class stamps in bulk from Royal Mail website. Pay current prices, stamps that show 1st/2nd class as opposed to a monetary value will still be valid
Thats a short term solution but;
They RM have rationed the number of stamps retailers can buy & sell up to the 30th.
Not sure how that helps after the 30th,
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What you have to look at is the "behind the scene" charges
Everytime you top up your postage...connection fee £7.00 (even though this is through your phone line)
Monthly rental £15.00
Ink cartridges for a pack of 2...£70.00.
Any differant rates that need uploading to the machine...£60.00.
We have had ours for 3 years and its going back when contract is up, fed up with all the extras.... :(
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Get email addresses off people and damn stamps off altogether.
Simon
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as above.......mail will go out of the window. Do customers want e-mails?....yes they do....just ask them ;)
And theres some awesomely good free e-mail campagn tools and companies out there
ditch the post eventually
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Do customers want just e-mails NO and we have asked them. ;)
When the day comes that mail will not be required.........we will still do it as it will be a novelty then and people will be more likely to open than a letter than go through load of junk emails, already now your emails will probably go unread as they are dumped in spam and deleted.
The cost of postage will far outweigh the operating costs of franking machine if like us you do a lot of bulk mailings.
Its a no brainer, plus the convenience of just running them through, who wants to lick or stick a few thousand stamps on envelopes :( I know I dont.
By the way we bought our machine so do not and would not pay monthly rental,
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What were Franking Machine prices before Increase.
Actually this has blown a hole in the reason for the increase,
To preserve the universal postal service so we do not loose Saturday deliveries etc etc.
We were told its not cost effective at old prices and postal service was operating at a big Accountants Created loss
This just hits the occasional user the pensioner writing to her family in John O Groats etc etc
Yet more Public relations spin this was not mentioned on The Today Programme
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Hi Ian
We currently pay 39p.1st----28p. 2nd
Much lower than non business.
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iMail / Docmail etc... much less hassle, you do none of the legwork and the'yre a stack load cheaper than buying postage from royal mail
??? franking machines for mailshots??! Do you still wear flares and watch black & white TV?!!!
You could even use smartstamp and save a penny or two per stamp
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iMail / Docmail etc... much less hassle, you do none of the legwork and the'yre a stack load cheaper than buying postage from royal mail
??? franking machines for mailshots??! Do you still wear flares and watch black & white TV?!!!
You could even use smartstamp and save a penny or two per stamp
;D I do still wear flares they always come back in to fashion, and my Ferguson TV works perfectly well thank you.
We are on Smartstamp as well, it aint that great, franking machine is much easier and cheaper.
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Hilton
How many mail shots do you send out a month out of interest