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Print Your Postage or Buy Stamps
from:You may consider yourself literate in the ways of the Internet,
and feel at home doing a bit of online shopping or at-home
printing from time to time, but still be hesitant to adopt the
idea of purchasing your postage stamps
from an online vendor, or even more reluctant to attempt
printing stamps using your PC. But the realities of online
commerce are such that you can actually do both, with
surprisingly little effort. Whats required?
First, you should really have high-speed Internet
accessespecially if you want to tackle printing your own
postage. A dial-up connection may be adequate for you to simply
to buy stamps and pay for them online, having them delivered via
your trusty postal carrier. But if you want to have immediate
access to the postage you pay for, youll need to have a
connection which wont fail in the middle of your printing job.
So DSL or T-1 is essential.
Youll also need a credit card, and the willingness to trust your
financial information to the site at which you buy stamps or set
up and online account to print postage. And youll need at least
one email account, but if youre someone who buys enough stamps
postage to make printing your own postage seem like a good idea,
you are probably already doing lots of communications by email
anyway.
You can run an Internet search to find several sites which will
either let you buy stamps online and have them sent to your
home, or will let you set up an account, for which youll pay a
reasonable monthly fee, for the privilege of being able to order
and print postage right from your home printer. What you pay in
a monthly fee, youll almost certainly make up for in the amount
of money you save on the cost of your actual postage.
If you are buying stamps online, youll simply click on a button
on a stamp selling site which takes you to the US Postal Service
site, where you can select from a menu offering stamps of
different denominations. Select the kind and number of stamps
you want, add them to your shopping cart, and hit the pay button
when you are ready to check out. Youll be asked for the address
to which the stamps will be shipped, and your credit card
information.
The disadvantage of buying US postal stamps online is that you
will have to wait for up to seven business days to receive your
order, but if you do not feel confident that you can
successfully print your own postage, it is still a way to avoid
those time-consuming trips to the Post Office.
If you get an account at a site which lets you print your own
postage, on the other hand, youll be spared not only the rips to
the Post Office, but the wait for your stamps to arrive, so that
your business can maintain an uninterrupted flow. Youll also be
able to weigh your mailings, so that you dont spend a single
unnecessary cent in the amount of postage, and most sites will
check your addresses against those in the US Postal Service
database, so you wont be having mail returned to you.
But either way, using the Internet to buy stamps or print
postage is a far cry from venturing out in all kinds of weather
to stand in long lines--especially at the holidays--as you wait
to get your stamps!
About the author:
David Stargel is the owner of several web businesses and enjoys
writing articles about current trends in the business world. He
has over 25 years of experience in business marketing and sales.
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