With the average cost of recruiting, hiring, and training an employee now around £4,000 each, it's vital to get the most bang for your buck. If you're going to take the time and money to hire staff, you may as well get them to do work that they're specialised in. Hiring people to stuff envelopes is a waste of time.

When you have dedicated and educated staff taking up space for the sake of stuffing envelopes, you're no doubt wasting money. Even the most unskilled labourer could do something more useful for your business than stuffing envelopes. And for the one-time cost of buying a machine, you get a tool that never needs a day off or a coffee break.

When you direct your staff to other tasks, you work on expanding the productivity of your business as a whole. You get the chance to grow your business in new ways. By lightening the workload on your most overworked staff, you give them the chance to innovate and create.

The staff you've dedicated to stuffing envelopes should be directed to other parts of your business, to help make life easier for them. Rather than pumping money into human envelope stuffers, make that work redundant with a machine to do it instead.

Human error is an expensive risk for any business. While most customers and clients understand that people make mistakes, not every customer or client will be equally forgiving. If this is the first time you've reached out to them, a misspelling or a wonky-looking envelope risks turning them off forever.

Human error isn't something that you can really plan for. Even the best-trained staff make mistakes. However, when you're working with an envelope stuffing machine, there's only one mistake to make.

If you eliminate mistakes with loading and setting up the machine, you eliminate all the mistakes that occur with stuffing envelopes. Eliminating errors with envelope stuffing means that whatever you're sending out gets to the recipient on time, the way it needs to.

As stated above, providing optimal labour conditions is important to keep your staff both happy and productive. Those elements go hand in hand when it comes to building a strong company with reliable profits. However, we all need to sleep sometime and no one operates at 100% productivity for eight full hours every day.

When you get yourself an envelope stuffing machine, you ensure that there's maximum productivity all around, every day of the week. So long as you have one person around to listen for problems and reload the machine, your envelope stuffer can work around the clock.

Rather than limiting your productive hours to between 9 AM and 5 PM or worrying about paying your stuffers overtime, you get a steady output any time of day. With this kind of reliable productivity, you'll be able to estimate how much work you can do much more accurately. While your human envelope stuffer may give you a good hourly output for two hours a day, they'll work at half that speed closer to the end of the day. 

As also alluded to above, getting a messy, misaligned, or malformed piece of mail doesn't inspire confidence in a business. When you send out precise high-quality mail your customers, you get the chance to put your best foot forward.

Investing in quality paper, printing, and envelopes only to have your staff bungle the job or crease the envelopes ends up wasting your time and money. Once it's in the hands of postal carriers, if it's not tightly stuffed and perfectly creased, your mail gets manhandled and destroyed.

With an envelope stuffing machine at your disposal, your items are precisely folded, stuffed and secured. When everything fits perfectly, it's less likely to be destroyed in the hands of a carrier.

You also need to ensure that your folds are accurate and precise. Again as your staff works over many hours, their folds become less accurate and more sloppy. They need breaks to regain that accuracy, and that costs you money.

With the help of an envelope stuffing machine, you get security that you can't get with hand-stuffed envelopes. An envelope stuffing machine does more than just stuff envelopes. 

The best machines have the ability to read a barcode on your document. That means that they'll insert the precise number of documents and type of document into every envelope. Rather than having to stuff simple projects, you get the chance to send out two, three, or five pages of documents to different customers. 

The right documents end up in the right hands every time with a system like this. Since these machines are designed to take up a small footprint and remain quiet in an office, you get to feel both secure and relaxed while your machine works.

No matter the size of your company or how many mailings you do, the money you save on labour and errors makes your machine worthwhile. You never know which piece of mail is going to secure a lead, so take it seriously with a stuffing machine. 

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