franking machine BrE
postage meter AmE

Describe the purpose and use of a franking machine.

There are a number of companies offering postage meters, also called franking machines.

If the volume of mail is high, a franking machine can save a lot of time.

For franked mail, a dedicated franking machine is used.

A control card showing the readings of the meter of the franking machine must also be tendered to the post office.

Posta Uganda can grant licenses for franking machines.

When Karl Uchermann designed the world's first practical franking machine in 1901, a series of 18 machines was produced between 1903 and 1905.

Francotyp-Postalia is the market leader for franking machines in Germany, with a market share of more than 45%.

Franking machines (Fig. 6.4)

But he always insisted on putting his own stamps on such letters, never allowing them through the Department's franking machine Bit too obviously self-righteous, she thought.

'Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine.

Operating like a meter franking machine, they are manufactured by many of the same companies, for instance Pitney Bowes and Neopost.

He was the founder of the company Krag Maskinfabrikk, a producer of franking machines and postmark machines.

Lying in the open safe - a stack of passports held together with a rubber band; blank credit and debit cards; various official-looking stamps and franking machines.

Historical postal service items like mail satchels, mail pouches, mail sacks, letter boxes, locator maps, franking machines from the Ottoman and Republican era are on display.

If fewer envelopes are required; fewer stamps are required; fewer franking machines are required and fewer addressing machines are required.

All mail for despatch should be franked if a franking machine is used, or the stamps used entered into the postage book, which should be kept on the imprest system (Fig. 6.3).

Its principal proponent took time off from composing his memoir to issue a statement to Politico that was so lacking in dignity and restraint that it hinted at the presence of a sinister franking machine.

They are all four symbiotic: technological developments affecting one obviously ricochet through the others: addressing machines print addresses, postage stamps are a print product, franking machines imprint a frank on an envelope.

As Managing Director David Hymers explains to the Business Club, this innovative and expanding company has come a long way since it was originally established as a maintainer of franking machines.

- We expect you are, honest Shaun, we agreed, but from franking machines, limricked, that in the end it may well turn out, we hear to be you, our belated, who will bear these open letter.

The high court rejected a Labor Party senator's bid to stop them but ruled that the postal service must provide him with a franking machine so his own outgoing mail and campaign materials do not bear the Fianna Fail logo.

As well as franking machines and postal scales, Neopost also manufactures machines for folding letters and inserting them into envelopes, letter opening machines, scanners for detecting suspicious items of mail and various other mail-related services.

Generally there is a fee for this service; however very small amounts and single email letters may be free of charge depending on the service provider and generally fees are much lower than directly sending mail or using a franking machine.

I weigh my portions on the postage meter at work!

A postage meter is only one component of a mailing system.

Once postage meters went from electronic to digital, it no longer made sense to make the components, he said.

They are also closely related to meter stamps from postage meters.

The explanatory note observes that the postage meters "can be set for any date."

He said the case was believed to be the largest fraud ever uncovered involving postage meters.

There are a number of companies offering postage meters, also called franking machines.

In the first consumer application for postage meters, customized stamps are also possible.

It would work essentially like a postage meter, authorization would be made on line.

"But the upside is more interest in mailroom management and postage meters."

The Post Office is experimenting with a new system that would eliminate the need for postage meters.

You can think of the header information much like a tracker or postage meter for your email.

We each had our own scale and our own postage meter machine.

If you have a friend working in a large corporation, you can run your organization's mail through their postage meter.

The infractions include mail fraud, stealing the address list and using the school postage meter.

There is an elbow chair with a document compartment, a 12-cent postage meter and a divan.

Base (the hardware on which the postage meter sits)

Only a postmark - not a dated office postage meter - is legal proof of timely filing.

In the first month, Nexxpost's only sale was a $19 postage meter.

Postage needs to be applied using a postage meter, stamps, or some other tool.

Too bad the postage meter lead fizzled out - the meter was in such a public place any thief could use it.

It recently bought the French postage meter company Secap.

A postage meter is a mechanical device used to create and apply physical evidence of postage to mailed matter.

Since virtually all such mail is paid for with postage meters, there is some question about the need for the stamp.

Postage meter measures postage used from a prepaid account.