Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Pak Mail Franchise
A Pak Mail Centers of America brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 1984. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Pak Mail, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $150K – $250K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 500
- Total locations · Mid-size network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry pak-mail Pak Mail
Pak Mail needs $150K–$250K to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical retail franchise.
- LO $150K
- HI $250K
- FEE $30K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 500
- I19 Silent
- INV# #130/223
- UNT# #142/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Fantastic Sams ($139K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Pak Mail (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Pak Mail's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -2.0% net unit growth (YoY) 0/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Pak Mail's investment ranks nationally
Pak Mail's listed Item 7 low of $150K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Pak Mail vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$150,000 Lower than most lower than 59% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $30K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
20 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Retail
- Subsector
- postal shipping
- Founded
- 1983
- Franchising Since
- 1984
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Pak Mail
This Pak Mail page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Pak Mail.
What the Pak Mail FDD reveals
Signature read: 500 locations · Item 7 low $150K
Pak Mail, a Pak Mail Centers of America franchise, has been franchising since 1984 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1983 , currently with 500 total locations (500 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in TX. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $150K to $250K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $30K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Royalty payments here are set at 5.0% of gross sales with a separate 2.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 7.0%. Pak Mail has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
Pak Mail's footprint shrank over the past year, down 2.0% with 20 closures on the record. This is a network-count observation only; the registry does not record reasons for openings or closures.
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Related reading for Pak Mail: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Pak Mail has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Pak Mail's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Pak Mail , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($150K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (500 here).
What to do with this
Pak Mail at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Pak Mail scores 0/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $150K – $250K entry cost runs below the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #130 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Fantastic Sams sits at a comparable investment level ($139K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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