Postage Meters
Postage Meters can be called a variety of names including mailing machines, postage machine, stamp machine, postage printer, mailing systems, mail meters, and a few others. No matter what you call them they all do basically the same job: print postage on envelopes saving time and money in the form of an indicia. All postage meters are regulated by the United States Postal Service and must be rented or leased from an authorized dealer.
Discover the FP range of postage meters
PostBase mini
Small office, home office Postage Meter, affordable postage for small business and power sellers
PostBase econ
Low volume postage system at up to 30 cycles per minute for small businesses, cost saving, accurate, and efficient.
PostBase semi
The perfect Postage Meter option for your office. The PostBase semi postage meter line does up to 45 cycles per minute with semi-automatic feeder.
PostBase auto
This Postage Meter features an Automatic feeding system as a standard that can post up to 85 envelopes per minute, quick and simple to use.
PostBase pro
Our PostBase pro Postage system blast through up to 140 envelopes per minute with automatic feeder as standard, flexible and fast.
PostBase proDS
The Postbase pro DS postage system has incredible dynamic feeding capabilities and up to 110 letters per minute with dynamic scale activated, simple and fast.
PostBase ONE
Unique dynamic vertical feed for true mixed mail weighing a, no pre-sorting. PostBase ONE is the ultimate Postage Machine
What is a Postage Meter?
A postage meter allows get rid of your dependence on stamps by printing postage directly onto your envelopes.
Postage Meters are sometimes called mailing machines, postage machine, postage printer, stamp machine, mail meters, mailing systems, along with a few other names.
Anatomy of a postage meter.
Postage meters of all sizes do basically the same job and all Postage meters have to be licensed by the USPS®.
Postage meters use red fluorescent ink to print indicia for USPS® postage. Ink costs are much lower than you would expect making it very affordable.
- Weighing scale with USPS® rates for pricing letters and parcels
- Ink cartridge compartment
- Letter feeding area
- Security module that keeps your money safe
- Color touch screen and one button
Postage Meters fit any business size whether large, small or start-up.
Postage Machines have different options making them perfect for small businesses to large corporations as a result. They all basically do the same job just with different speeds and features. As a matter of fact, some Postage Meters have automatic feeders speeding up the postage meter. Furthermore some have software connections to download account data .
Postage Meters download their postage straight into the machine.
Postage Meters can use either your telephone line, your network or broadband router connection or your Wi-Fi depending on the model.
There’s no more lining up at the post office with a Postage Meter,Just set up a direct debit and then you can download whatever postage you need, downloading is free” – not sure the best way to address this but depending on the type of contract downloads are not always free.