Reasons to Upgrade to a Digital Postage Scale

When you’re contemplating upgrading your postage scale, this usually means you ship quite a few packages on a consistent basis. If you have a manual scale you’ve been using or if this is your first scale purchase a digital postage scale can substantially help increase your mailing efficiency. This ultimately can reduce you and/or your customer’s overpayment on outgoing mail, saving money, time and frustrations.

What Is A Digital Postage Scale?

A digital postage scale automatically (using a pressure-sensing component) weighs your package and gives you a reading on the package’s weight. There isn’t any question or evaluation needed by the packager.

Why Digital and Not Manual?

There are numerous benefits in investing in a digital postage scale:

• 1.There are several models that provide information on shipping rates right on its display. This gives you the ability to choose what shipping plan works best. There are some models that have the ability to not only weigh and give you rates, but also print your label, and assign pick up times to your carrier automatically. Reducing your time spent dropping off the package and getting correct labeling, to zero. Time always equals money.
• 2.In our extremely fast paced world, their ease of use and lack of ambiguity in weight reading makes packaging, printing and shipping very easy for any level of user. Most models require you to simply set the package on the scale and press only a couple buttons to have your package correctly weighed, labeled and out the door. This allows anyone in your office to be able to handle the task of shipping if needed.
• 3.As a business owner it’s important to have a fluid system in all aspects of your business. Some digital scales can connect to various devices to increase the efficiency of your shipping system. Whether it’s your cell phone, email, a postage meter, or even connecting with your accounting system, digital postage scales are really increasing their ability to make your shipping life easier.

Having an accurate postage scale is necessary for any business trying to reducing their postage costs and increase their shipping efficiency. Whether you’re a small business or a large corporation, digital postage scales increasingly pay for themselves in reduced time wasted and postage costs.

Reducing your costs overall gives you the ability to pass that savings on to bigger and brighter opportunities. Whether it’s back to your customers or an expansion of your brand, starting in your shipping department might be your golden ticket.