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Perfect companions
Desktop folder-inserters are the perfect complement
to a Neopost franking machine. Neopost’s range will
fold and insert documents at speeds of up to 12,000
envelopes an hour, then seal and stack the envelopes
ready for franking.
With even entry-level machines folding and inserting
at least 13 times faster than by hand, folder-inserters
are a productive, cost-saving solution for businesses that
regularly send out invoices, statements and marketing
campaigns.
Neopost calculates that a folder-inserter with a monthly
rental of £20 could save a company that sends 3,000 items
a month as much as £1,920 a year in labour costs, on the
basis that it costs 6p per item to fold and insert letters
manually (100 insertions per hour at £6 per hour).
Even if you only use it to fold A4 pages into DL or C5
envelopes and so avoid Large Letter rates, a folder-inserter
will be a valuable addition to your office.
To meet the needs of smaller businesses and
departments, Neopost recently launched the DS-35
desktop model with useful colour touch-screen, step-by-
step job set-up wizard and programmable job memory
for regular jobs. Despite its compact size, the DS-35 can
still fold, insert and seal up to 1,350 items of mail
per hour and if required can be linked to a Neopost
franking machine in a fully automated mail flow.
Another new model, the DS-85 can fold
up to 10 sheets into a single envelope and
accommodate up to six feed stations. It also has
the ability to read barcodes and other optical
marks printed anywhere on the page allowing
users to specify different inserts for each letter.
Make maximum use of this capability by
installing Neopost’s new OMS-100 Output
Management Software Solution to manage
printing (with optical marks), folding and
insertion of mailings. The software can also
group similar envelopes and postage types
together, saving at least 30-60 seconds of
preparation per item.
and the embarrassment and bad PR of
under-stamping and passing surcharges
on to your customers;
Faster processing.
Neopost franking
machines are packed with time-saving
features, from integrated scales and LAN
connectivity on the AutoStamp2, to
mixed mail feeding, dynamic scales and
colour touch-screens on high end models.
Up-to-date mailing lists.
Print your
business address on envelopes and Royal
Mail will return all undeliverable franked
mail helping you to keep your address
lists up-to-date;
Easier accounting.
As a Neopost
customer you will enjoy a free online
account called myneopost where you can
monitor and analyse postal expenditure
by department or mail type; order
consumables; and request service support.
Free advertising.
Improve brand
awareness and boost revenue by printing
sales messages next to the frank mark.
Greater professionalism.
Neat and
consistent franking marks can help project
a professional, business-like image;
Improved security
. Unlike stamps, a
Neopost franking machine can be fully
locked and PIN protected, so that only
authorised users have access.
The scale of April’s price rises came
as a shock to many and forced Royal
Mail to ration stamp sales to prevent
stock-piling. Following Ofcom’s decision
to remove restrictions on what Royal
Mail can charge for 1st class post, such
price increases could become a common
occurrence further strengthening the case
for franking. Get yours while stocks last!
SevenWays to Beat
Royal Mail Price Hike
1. Franked Mail
Save 19p on a 2nd class letter
and 16p on a 1st class letter and
up to £1.41 on a 2 kg packet by
switching from stamps to franked
mail.
2. Utilise 2nd Class Postage
Move from 1st to 2nd class post
and save 13p – or an additional
29% – on every letter sent: 85%
of 2nd class letters arrive the next
day anyway.
3. Take Advantage of Pricing in
Proportion
Make the most of size-based
pricing and switch from C4 to C5
or DL envelopes and enjoy a saving
of 22p per letter or 41%. Folding
mail into smaller envelopes is quick
and easy with a Neopost folder
inserter.
4. Postal Discount Programmes
Use Royal Mail’s Business Mail
Service to send 500 items in
one batch and save 16% against
standard franked postal tariffs.
Royal Mail also provides volume
discounts, beginning at 1,000
letters, with further discounts
of 1.5% to 7.5%. By combining
Business Mail and volume-related
discounts, businesses that send
between 500 and 25,000 letters
per mailing can shave a further
16% to 23.5% off the cost of
franked mail.
5. VAT Services
If you are regularly using VAT
liable postal products, such as
Special Delivery 9am or Business
Mail, you could claim back the
VAT by using a SMART technology
franking machine – saving you an
additional 20%. Neopost’s range of
IS Smart franking machines are VAT
compliant.
6. Rationalise mailings
Save on postage and material
costs by combining multiple
mailings to a single addressee in
one envelope. Neopost output
management software makes
rationalisation easy.
7. Address & Database Quality
Royal Mail destroys an average of
25 million undeliverable letters,
packets and parcels every year.
Make sure your mailings reach their
target by keeping your address
databases up-to-date. Use Neopost
address correction software to
clean data against Royal Mail PAF
address file.
www.neopost.
co.uk or call
0800 731 1334
quoting BINFO