You might be surprised to learn just how much work goes into a typical mailing. Between printing, folding, inserting, weighing, addressing, and stamping envelopes and packages, preparing a mailing can be a full-time job! With fast, easy-to-use mailing equipment, you can help ease the process and cut down on the time, effort, and money necessary to send your mail.
Standard mailing equipment
The most familiar type of mailing equipment is the postage meter. You call a dealer to rent the machine and pay for a certain amount of postage that’s loaded onto the machine. The meter then prints postage directly to your mailing and deducts the cost of the postage from your balance. More enhanced postage meters allow you to use password protection and setup the memory for more frequent mailing jobs.
You can attach a postage base to the meter to handle the mail. A postage base alone is a valuable piece of equipment, but you can make it more useful with feeders (that run the envelopes through the machine), sealers (to close the mailings), stackers (to neatly compile the stamped mail), and tape dispensers (for printing postage to stickers to attach to packages and envelopes that can’t pass through the meter).
A postage scale can indicate the exact postage you need for your mail so there’s never any waste or concerns about not having enough. Use postage scales by itself or attach it to the postage meter for more streamlined mailings.
Other types of mailing equipment
- Letter folding machines can fold thousands of documents in a fraction of the time it takes your employees to process by hand. You can also select from a variety of different folding types depending on how you want it to look to your customers.
- Letter opening machines can open hundreds of envelopes per minute, which is useful if you frequently receive large volumes of mail.
- Addressing equipment is valuable for large mailings because it will make sure every piece gets delivered to the appropriate recipient, regardless of volume.
- Barcoding keeps track of each piece of mail so you know who receives it and where it’s going.
- Shrink wrap machines protect items before you package them for mailings.
- Bursters easily helps mail recipients separate forms using a preforation
- Collators neatly stack the finished mail
- Conveyor systems quickly move mail down the equipment
- Sealers quickly seal envelopes shut without moisture
Sorting systems are comprehensive machines that help you get the best bulk mailing rates by handling the post office’s sorting duties for you
