franking?/

One will buy a franking machine because they want to save money on postage. One will get discounted postage when one uses a franking machine. One can buy a franking machine when one goes to the website of Royal Mail.

The disadvantage is - it's easy to abuse it ! Some companies allow anyone to use their franking machine - meaning that any employee can frank personal mail, thus avoiding paying for the postage. Franking machines are 'loaded' with pre-paid credit. Once the machine is 'primed' - anyone can feed letters through it - and use the credit until it's exhausted. That's why most franking machines are locked away until the end of the working day, and one person franks all the outgoing mail.

A franking machine is used to print postage on letters; also known as a postal meter.

Franking is the right of Senators and Representatives to send job-related mail without paying postage.