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Posted on 03 / 05 / 2006
I currently started an eBay business selling accessories
for coin collectors like storage albums, alongside thousands
of historical coins and coin collections. As my sales began
to rise my quit all my other part time work and focused solely
on eBay and traveled to a sales conference eBay held at Anfield
football stadium in Liverpool. It was here that they explained
the benefit of using electronic delivery equipment to speed
up the post and packaging. When you are selling hundreds of
items a week the packaging of these items can really eat into
your time, and stops you from listings as many things as you
would like to. I search the web and read a few reviews and
came across Pitney Bowes DM100i Digital Franking System. It's
been designed for small businesses and home workers and helps
to more rigorously control mailing costs, and has helped produce
less hassle due to my improved administration. It's a small
and flexible machine which I am sure would benefit any growing
small business. It has a 2.5kg integral weighing platform
which is more accurate than my previous manual weightier,
and has also helped free up some desk space which is at a
minimum. I have in the past made some incorrect package values,
the DM100i has guaranteed that each letter or package I send
bears the correct postage value. It did however take me a
few hours of reading the instructions to fully understand
all the controls, but once understood they it soon becomes
a clear control panel with each stage of processing mail made
simple. The only downside is that the machine can only efficiently
frank and mail pieces up to 9.5mm thick, any mail that is
larger needs to be processed with self adhesive tape strips.
This means I only use the franking machine for sending out
smaller packages. But my larger items are standard weights
and therefore a franking machine isn't required. The thing
I liked the most however is that standard envelopes can be
altered into branded mail pieces which makes it look much
more professional. The machine isn't cheap but I wouldn't
like to be without it.
User Rating - 
Alex Howard
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