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Franking machine lease coming to an end? Learn your four main options, how notice periods work, what happens to postage credit and how to plan your ink and labels.

Royal Mail prices UK mail by format first and weight second. Here are the current Letter, Large Letter and parcel size limits, the mistakes that cause surcharges, and a mailroom routine that stops you overpaying.

Royal Mail's fuel, green and peak surcharges do not apply to standard franked mail. Here is what franking machine users are charged for instead in 2026.

Royal Mail is raising parcel stamp prices on 5 October 2026. Mailmark franking prices are unchanged, so mailrooms that frank have nothing to update and a new saving on every parcel.

Sorting, bundling and posting franked mail the right way: Royal Mail pouches and trays, where you can and cannot post franked items, the seven day posting rule, and the presentation mistakes that cause delays and surcharges.

Franking machine postage credit is prepaid postage you buy in advance and download onto the machine, where it sits like an electronic petty cash tin and is deducted every time an impression prints. You top it up over the machine's internet or network connection using a prepay, direct debit or credit account held with your franking supplier. Because the money leaves the balance the...