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Postal Annex Plus

Business Services · independent · est. —

PostalAnnex+ is a retail shipping and business services franchise offering packing, shipping through major carriers, mailbox rentals, printing, and notary services. A franchisee operates a storefront service center for consumers and small businesses handling shipments and everyday business errands.

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A franchise is a business where you (the franchisee) pay a company (the franchisor) for the right to open and run a location using their brand and system — think a local Anytime Fitness or Taco John's owned by a small-business owner, not the corporation.

Before you can buy in, U.S. law requires the franchisor to give you a Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) — a long legal filing covering its fees, finances, and history. The numbers on this page come straight from that document:

  • Franchise fee — the one-time cost to buy in.
  • Royalty — the ongoing cut of your sales you pay the franchisor.
  • Item 20 — how many locations opened and closed, the basis for our verdict (from Proven & strong down to Distressed — or Too new to judge).

The verdict

Not enough disclosure

Distress

0
STABLE

No verified FDD extraction to judge from. Any figures shown are labelled sample data or independent federal records.

SBA loan defaults

25.2%

vs 14.8% avg across rated brands

Behind the verdict

the record, factor by factor · Item 20

No score available.

Systemwide units

Insufficient trend data.

What this page is — and isn'tno FDD on file

We hold no Franchise Disclosure Document for Postal Annex Plus, so this page carries no exit rate, fees, investment range, or Item 19 earnings claim. What it does carry is the federal loan record: every SBA 7(a) and 504 loan made to a Postal Annex Plus franchisee since 1991 and how each one ended. That is an independent, sourced measure of how the brand's owner-operators actually fared — and for most brands it is the only outcome data that exists publicly.

Brands enter the index this way when they don't register in the states we crawl. We add the filing when we obtain it — see methodology for how coverage is built and what each evidence level means.

The lender's view

SBA 7(a)/504 loan performance · FY1991–present

Banks have made 139 SBA-backed loans to Postal Annex Plus franchisees since 1991. Of the 119 that have resolved, 25.2% were charged off (defaulted) rather than paid in full, versus 14.8% across 576 rated brands.

Charge-off rate

25.2%

30 of 119 resolved defaulted

Loss given default

61.7%

avg. charged-off $ ÷ approved $

Expected loss

15.6%

default rate × loss severity

Avg. loan · FY2020+

$94,703

what recent franchisees borrowed

Median time to default

38 mo

approval → charge-off, defaulted loans

Lenders · FY21+ vs FY16–20

0 vs 6

distinct banks — pulling back

Charge-off rate by loan approval year (%)

29'953836300'0003325'17

SOURCE: SBA 7(a)/504 FOIA LOAN DATA (DATA.SBA.GOV), FY1991–PRESENT · MATCHED TO POSTAL ANNEX PLUS BY FRANCHISE NAME · RESOLVED = CHARGED-OFF + PAID-IN-FULL

The owner's side of the deal

FDD × federal loan record

Who finances it

Newtek Small Business Finance, Inc.

11.5% of this brand's loans

That lender charges off 16.3% of its loans to other franchise brands, vs 14.8% nationally.

Who buys it

86.4%

first-time franchise owners

The rest already owned at least one other franchise. Across the corpus, brands bought mostly by repeat operators charge off at roughly 10% versus 17% for brands sold mostly to newcomers.

Does experience help here?

Not enough resolved loans to split

Computed from 139 SBA 7(a)/504 loans to Postal Annex Plus franchisees joined to the brand's own FDD. Debt service assumes level amortization at the average disclosed term and rate. A lender's rate excludes its loans to this brand, so it reads the lender, not the brand.

Distress signals

news-sourced · bankruptcies, closures, lawsuits

No recent closures, bankruptcies, or major lawsuits found in the news for Postal Annex Plus. That's a good sign — but it reflects news coverage, not a guarantee.

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